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08 December 2003   

 

Radio-Locator

342 Radio Stations were found in United Kingdom.

Not all are internet stations, but still... Dead handy engine for finding worldwide internet radio stations.


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PC Mag: review of Blog Tools

We tested the best of the bunch. In addition, we looked at one application for those who prefer to host their own.

Doesn't look as though they've researched this well at all. But I guess, to cover each tool in a few paragraphs, you're bound to leave a lot out. From my point of view they've totally misjudged weblogger or rather "Manila". They said it was for groups? 99% Of my Villa bloggers are single editors.


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Revealed: the Iraqi colonel who told MI6 that Saddam could launch WMD within 45 minutes

"...The WMD have been hidden at secret locations by the Fedayeen and are still in Iraq. "Only when Saddam is caught will people talk about these weapons," he said."

Such a big country, and only a very small number of people would need to know their exact location. These are the weapons that scare the shit out of me. Imagine what they could do in the middle of London.


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How billions in oil money spawned a global terror network

The Saudi Connection: The CIA's Illicit Transactions Group isn't listed in any phone book. There are no entries for it on any news database or Internet site...

There's ten pages in this report, haven't the time to read it all now, but it looks well worth the read this evening.


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Economy 'set for strong growth'

"Gordon Brown has given an upbeat assessment of the economy in a preview of this week's pre-Budget report."

I dig that the global economy is growing (though CeBit is very small this year because of "economic downturn in Europe"), and that we've been growing for some time, so I see his point, but I worry that an al-Qaeda attack could change that in the blink of an eye. Also, a house price recession is surely just around the corner, and with record breaking consumer debt and increasing, albeit slowly, interest rates...

I ain't confident Gordon, not confident at all.


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Final Days in the Life At Jennicam

After seven years Jennicam is ending. Probably because of PayPal stopping her account due to 'nudity.' Which is strange, as that was the whole reason why she was once getting millions of viewers every week. I guess the profits have nose dived over that time, there's been many, many more copyists who are far more lewd (and younger), and seven years of living in a fish bowl — well, anyone would get fed up of that. [Via MetaFilter]

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Nanoaudiences for blogs

"...Blogs with a dozen readers are often successful on their authors' terms."
True. I did like their research the other day, and I believe that many bloggers blog not just for traffic, but also for themselves. I blog about my kids, certainly not for traffic, but for posterity. I blog about business, so I've got a reference when I need something, and blog about politics and war to vent some steam.


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509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

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Major bummer. I switched over from Radio's referers because they were too slow, it held up my page loads, to blogPatrol, is it six months(?) now.
I think it's time I bit the bullet and wrote my own from my raw logs. Then I can do far more anyway.
I'd like to receive a daily emailed RSS'd referer log, hits, unique visitors and search queries. I suppose I could go the whole hog and get 404s, clients and a bunch of other things too. Though, I guess it's just referers that I crave.


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