Maybe you should just go straight to the Guardian
Arabic broadcaster al-Jazeera launched its new english-language service on Monday, at english.aljazeera.net. I’ve been trying to get to it all day, in order to read about the war from a different perspective, but without joy. Apparently they’ve been subjected to a spate of DoS attacks (no prizes for guessing which freedom of speech-loving country the attacks originated from…) which have brought down their site.
Additionally, the US hosting service that runs the English-language site — DataPipe, a brand name of Hoboken Web Services — buckled under pressure and agreed not to host the al-Jazeera site from the end of this month. ‘Land of the Free’ my arse.
Elsewhere at Guardian Online, Ben Hammersley thinks the net has come of age as a news source: “In the end, the biggest winner, of the war and the peace, may be Google.” Ben’s own blog is amongst those in my bookmarks.
The Guardian also has an interesting article on a ‘location-enhanced’ web, including mentions of the London Bloggers tube map and GeoURL (both of which contain entries for World of Badger).
Steve Bell’s latest cartoon is about Blair’s message to the Iraqi people.
Not at the Guardian, George Lakoff, a Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, takes a look at the metaphorical ideas being used to justify Gulf War II.
You know blogging’s passé when evil tyrants start to get in on it — now you can read Hussein’s musings in Saddam’s Cyber Palace.
i don’t want teh news… i want your take on the news… making it new news again…
Well, I aim to please (and not to sicken, despite what ‘Yankee Doodle’ thought regarding the previous entry). My take on the news? It’s bloody depressing! OK, not the most thoughful analysis, but it’s late… I’ll try to come up with something more interesting tomorrow. Thanks for the comment.