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June 21, 2008 News and Trends

Homophobic governments block gays from UN AIDS conference

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:59:36 PDT
Power sharing continues in Northern Ireland under new First Minister Peter Robinson is Northern Ireland's next First Minister, despite concerns that direct rule would be imposed after a dispute between the main parties to the peace process. Kennedy joins Obama in VP hunt Illinois Senator Barack Obama has selected a powerhouse three-person team to assist him in choosing his Democratic vice-presidential running mate for the November contest. Down but not out - what next for the

Google Launches 'Google Trends for Websites' A Feeble Start!

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:58:06 PDT
Google Launches 'Google Trends for Websites' A Feeble Start! June 21st, 2008 | 134 Views RSS Feed Google Trends is a service that can be used to see how popular certain search terms are across geographic regions, cities, and languages. Earlier this month, I had informed our readers about the update that Google had implemented to Google Trends. Now, via the Google Webmaster Central Blog, Google has announced that it has launched a new factor in the Google Trends, called 'Google Trends for Webs

NEWSWEAK - EPISODE 4 (Bobby Mugabe & There will be oil!)

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:41:56 PDT
Refugees of the world Unite! If you have ever spent time in an internment camp, or floating off the coast of Australia in a make-shift raft while sharks leap out of the ocean at you. If you have ever had your home bombed to rubble by American forces bent on your freedom. If you have ever grown up in a pile of rubble with a stick named “sticky” as your only parent because an Israeli settler needed a new wing on his house. If any, or indeed, all of these descriptions map your lifestyle, then y

TELUS Mobility launches TELUS mobile TV on its national 1X network

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:35:45 PDT
TELUS mobile TV is powered by MobiTV, the world's first network and platform providing live television on wireless phones. clients watch live, real-time programming on seven channels: CBC Newsworld, Fox News, G4 Tech TV, Le Reseau de l'information (RDI), MeteoMedia, The Shopping Channel and The Weather Network.

Google Trends now works for Web sites too - CNET News


Google Trends now works for Web sites too
CNET News, CA - 17 hours ago
By Josh Lowensohn – June 20, 2008 2:21 PM PDT Google Trends, a service Google started two years ago to track searched-for keywords has unveiled a new tool ...
Google Adds Site Traffic Analytics to Google Trends Search Engine Journal
Google Trends Adds Another Way to Inaccurately Track Website Traffic Mashable
Google jumps into the website traffic comparison game with Google ... VentureBeat
Washington Post - Silicon Alley Insider
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Best American Fantasy 2: Table of Contents

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:51:03 PDT
We can finally reveal the Best American Fantasy 2 table of contents. The focus of BAF is on North American writers published in North American publications (from 2007). We looked at several hundred genre and literary publications, and these were, we felt, the best stories from 2007. Ann and I are the guest editors this time, with Matthew Cheney as the series editor. The next volume will be guest edited by the marvelous Kevin Brockmeier. As always, this anthology serves as a good alternative or

Blade predicts future trends (The Inquirer)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:25:20 PDT
THREE MAJOR TRENDS are reshaping the data centre says IBM and Intel’s blade server industry group, Blade.org, pointing the finger at network convergence, advanced energy efficiency techniques and hyper consolidation.

Google Trends: 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:03:00 PDT
2.0 gets all the love.

Court quashes dad's grounding of 12-year-old daughter (CBC)

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:15:10 PDT
A father plans to appeal after a Quebec court ruled that he didn't have the right to punish his 12-year-old daughter by barring her from a school trip.

Aggregating - and checking - the pundits

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:50:50 PDT
Hubdub, a news prediction betting marketplace, has started a cool new feature that tracks the pundits’ predictions. Punditwatch takes the predictions of prognosticators from Christ Matthews to Perez Hilton to TechCrunch and enters them into its system as if each of the guesses were a bet. Then it tracks wins and losses and gives each pundit a score. I’ll spare you the nitpicking: Some predictions are easier than others and so they’re not all valued alike. But it’s a great guide to the crystal

Deal still possible for Hockey Night theme song (CBC Edmonton)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:38:38 PDT
Scott Moore, the executive director of CBC Sports, is playing down earlier published reports Thursday that hockey fans have heard the Hockey Night in Canada theme song for a final time.

Pregnancy pact alarms officials at U.S. high school: reports (CBC)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:48:34 PDT
A pregnancy pact may be responsible for a dramatic rise in mothers-to-be at a Massachusetts high school, Time magazine reports.


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