In his speech on the merits of George W. Bush and his helpers in the White House, Al Gore used a lot of metaphors to describe how he views the current state of affairs:
[ENG] – He planted the seeds of war, and harvested a whirlwind. And now, the “corrupt tree” of a war waged on false premises has brought us the “evil fruit” of Americans torturing and humiliating prisoners.
[NO]
- Han sådde krigens frø. Han høstet en tornado. Nå har det korrupte treet fra en krig utkjemptet på falske premisser bragt oss den onde frukten av amerikanere som torturerer og seksuelt ydmyker hjelpeløse fanger, sa han.
Filed under: Internet and Technology
A survey from MMI shows that e-tailing in Norway has had a three-fold increase during the past twelve months. This increase is attributed to more online outlets, additional product categories being offered, and a greater trust in online shopping in general. This article in digi.no summarizes the key findings in the survey.
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A Wired article describes the latest weapon in the the run for becoming the next President of the USA.
An effort by conservative bloggers has pushed the candidate’s campaign website to the top of the result list when the word “waffles” is typed into Google.
Google-bombing has fast become a popular prank on the Web. Bloggers have found they can manipulate search results by hyperlinking unsavory labels to individual pages. The trick also works on Yahoo, Lycos and AltaVista.
The Internet has since the 2000-race established itself as a key factor in the battle between the candidates. It’s become a major battlefiled. Just look at Howard Dean. He was sucsessful online, but failed offline. This latest tactic shows the vast amount of veapons that exist and proves that any sucsessful candidate must constantly monitor the web to assess the opponents next move, and be ready to respond.
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The XXXchurch is on a mission to help people overcome the temptations of pornography and onanism and bring them to God. As they explain in this article on Wired.com :
“(We) saw the church really doing nothing about the issue of porn, so we decided to step up and do something,” said Craig Gross, 28, who started the XXXchurch with Mike Foster, 32, in 2002. “We wanted to do it outside the context of a normal church so we could attract both secular and church people.”
The site — which advertises itself as the No. 1 Christian porn site — features downloadable bible studies, a virtual prayer wall and free software that records sites visited by Internet users and sends the log to a third party. There is also plenty of practical advice. Here’s what the pastors recommend instead of self-gratification:
“Remain calm and tell yourself, ‘You don’t own me, masturbation! I’m taking my life back!’ (or something of that nature). If that doesn’t work, you can pursue alternatives like chewing gum, blasting John Lennon’s song ‘Cold Turkey,’ eating chocolate or whatever helps you best (not masturbation).”
If your interested in testimonials on this, check out the blog Free To Be Pure. There, you will find personal insights such as:
Many times we will take purity and set it up in it’s own little world, and seperate it from the rest of our lives, as if purity is something deliberately designed to be harder to gain than anything else. But it’s not. It’s a part of Christian living. Time and time again, we are commanded to be pure. Through out the OT, God continually demanded purity from His people. Why? Why does God want us to be holy, to be sanctified as the NIV puts it in 1 Thess 4:2-4? It’s because God Himself is holy, in His very essence, He is holy. There is absolutly nothing in Him that desires sin. In His holiness, He wont have an intimate relationship with someone that isn’t holy. But His heart is to have close friendship with us anyway.
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An article by Nina Furu and Roar Eriksen in Online Services published in digi.no gives some good advice on increasing your digital visibility by following the guidlines of the W3C and leading search enginges. The article is in Norwegian.
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A brand new study commissioned by Chicago-based Starcom MediaVest and conducted by TNS Media Research and New York marketing consultancy Just Ask a Woman identified eight main female consumer characters, or types of consumers online.
The study parses female online behavior into eight overlapping personality types:
The Cassandra is the predictor of what’s next. She’s always online, searching for the latest trends and fashions to share with her friends. Sites that skew high for this personality type cover news, finance, home and family, and food and entertainment.
The Cowgirl gallops from site to site, sampling and moving on (you’ll find her on gaming sites).
The Debutante is new to the Web and remains wary of giving out her credit card number and other personal information.
The Detective is the consummate researcher, learning everything she can about a product or service before buying (she skews high on news, weather, and finance sites).
The Diva has perfected the art of finding fashionable brands at low prices online (think shopping, travel, health, and beauty sites).
The Shopkeeper sets up a website at home, often for running a small business (find her on news sites).
The Socialite uses the Web to communicate with friends (travel, entertainment, and gossip sites are her favorites).
The Voyeur does things online that she won’t do in the real world — Googling (read: spying on) ex-boyfriends, visiting chat rooms, buying sexy lingerie (her favorite sites include news, finance, astrology, and games).
But of the most interesting findings was the the Internet has become the no. 1 media of modern female conssumers. Women are online all the time, both for personal and business needs. It is no “spare time” event. Internet activity takes place at all hours of the day, sometimes while women are multitasking.
Another significant finding was the return of the day-time audience. Women are working longer hours, and they feel no guilt for using the web for personal needs during work hours.
The study was reported in this Business 2.0 article: “What Women Want“.
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From Wired article: If you take a close look at the form Google filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the exact value of its planned offering is $2,718,281,828 dollars, which some would immediately recognize as the mathematical constant e.
E, for those not blessed with a Ph.D. and a job at Google, is Euler’s number, which is used as the base for natural logarithms.
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