The Big Picture
17-Jul-08
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News stories in photographs - Boston.com
The UCSF Tobacco Industry Videos Collection contains material that is generally unavailable outside the Minnesota Depository and includes recordings of focus groups, internal corporate meetings, depositions of tobacco industry employees, government hearings, corporate communications, both internal and external, and some commercials. In addition to these types of tapes, the Minnesota Depository has numerous recordings of television news coverage of tobacco issues and more cigarette commercials.
Self-proclaimed “America’s Favorite Pizza Weblog”, Slice is a group weblog about pizza with news digests, original reviews, and musings on pizza.
http://www.sliceny.com
As of today, users of IE will be able to use internationalized domain names (IDNs). These are domain names that use non-Roman type — everything from umlauts in German to entirely different alphabets and scripts. Many other browsers are already IDN-capable, including Firefox, but most people in the world use Explorer.
Think China, Japan, India. Think most of the world’s population… Think of millions of new Internet users working in their own language, customers for commercial goods and services. But think also about intellectual property nightmares, think about phishing, think about whether there’s one interoperable Internet, or several Internets acting very weird. These issues and others will become big news when people start using IDNs massively — and with support from Internet Explorer, that’s about to happen.
http://www.namesatwork.com/blog/2006/02/01/idns-and-ie7-no-one-is-ready-for-this
This year’s most popular videos from National Geographic News, including the classic “Bees Battle ‘Hornets From Hell’”
Japanese giant hornets pack a venomous sting so strong it can dissolve human tissue. Watch an attack by these killer insects on a hive of honeybees and learn the surprising secret of the bees’ defense.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1216_051216_top_video.html
Three minute daily videoblog based in New York City. Covers and creates a wide range of information and commentary from top news stories to quirky internet culture. Heavy emphasis on international arts, technology and weblog drama, distributed through RSS.
http://www.rocketboom.com
(aka How To Get Podcasts And Also Make Your Own)
Engadget.com’s article on how to get “Podcasts” on your iPod. So what’s a Podcast? To put it simply, a Podcast is an audio file, a MP3, most likely, in talk show format, along with a way to subscribe to the show and have it automatically delivered to your iPod when you plug in to iTunes. The show isn’t live, so you can listen to it whenever you want.
http://www.engadget.com/entry/5843952395227141
blogsnow was specifically designed to be the fastest blog news aggregator possible: 5 to 12 minutes after a blog entry has been saved it will exist in the blogsnow index. Blogging is real-time, and a blog-aggregator should act accordingly. blogsnow counts the current links every ten minutes and will allways deliver you an up to date view of what bloggers talk about.
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