has published another great article about blogs: The blog busters.
From the Guardian last week:
The second browser war, by Ben Hammersley.
“…why did Microsoft stop developing Internet Explorer? Why would a company so vocal about innovation cease work on perhaps the most used application in the world, and for nearly three years? The answer is not definitive, but the prevailing thinking points to the third aspect of the browser war: it is the beginning of an even larger, if deeply curious, battle for the domination of the entire computer industry.”
I remain suspicious about the possibility of web apps to become the thin client or network computer heralded in years past, but it’s clear there’s something going on, and MS really does look like it’s being forced to hedge its bets a bit more than it has done in the past couple of years.
In The Guardian on Saturday,
writer Elena Lappin described the ordeal she went through on a trip to the US to do some interviews in LA: Welcome to America. “…Cases such as mine are part of a systemic policy of harassing media representatives from 27 friendly countries whose citizens – not journalists! – can travel to the US without a visa, for 90 days.”
The Guardian’s profile of Daniel Dennett:
The semantic engineer. Great reading.
Huh?
This Guardian story is odd: War critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal. “International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard Perle conceded that the invasion of Iraq had been illegal.” This was in a speech in London at the ICA.
