Google removed their official blog by mistake

How to lose a blog

Things happen - even to big companies. The successful US Web company Google has their official information channel "The Official Google Blog" on the same blogger.com site as this Nikitalk blog. The address is http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
(- Blogspot is just another name for blogger.com.)

Last night some member of the Google staff by accident removed that blog and thus set the blog name free, so that anyone could grab the blog name to himself. A student in Texas did that - in his own words no to get rich, but just to protect the blog name for Google.

Read all about it in the linked article.

Aarne

Immigration protests in L.A.

500,000 Pack Streets to Protest Immigration Bills

The rally, part of a massive mobilization of immigrants and their supporters, may be the largest L.A. has seen.

By Teresa Watanabe and Hector Becerra, Times Staff Writers
March 26, 2006

A crowd estimated by police at more than 500,000 boisterously marched in Los Angeles on Saturday to protest federal legislation that would crack down on undocumented immigrants, penalize those who help them and build a security wall along the U.S.' southern border.
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Read the comment, there you can find more information
Matti

News in English

It`s easy to read newspapers from English-speaking countries around the world.

Here are some examples:
Herald Sun Australia
Los Angeles Times
Toronto Star
The New York Times
Star Tribune Minneapolis
Houston Chronicle
The Times
Jamaica Gleaner
Mail & Guardian Johannesburg

Have a nice trip around the world!

Blogs and blogosphere

What is a blog? Dictionary.com tells us:

blog
	an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page; also called Weblog, Web log

But it can also be

n : a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies [syn: web log]

Who are reading blogs? In a recent study blogosphere
50 million U.S. Internet users visited blog sites in the first quarter of 2005. That is roughly
30% of all U.S. Internet users and 1 in 6 of the total U.S. population.'

As an examlpe of personal blogs is Belinda`s blog Life in Jinan

Last monday we talked about wireless networks. In The New York Times people are worried about other people using their network, look Hey Neighbor, Stop Piggybacking on My Wireless

Regards
Matti