The death toll is continuing to rise after a strong quake struck this gateway country between Africa and Europe.
Since the early 1990’s this country has been engaged in a struggle between the military and Islamic militants. Over 100,000 people have died. Algeria has been in the news recently because of the kidnappings of European tourists.
From [...]

This is an interesting article on how a story moves through the blogosphere. (it even has a diagram)
There are a couple of important conclusions.
An individual blogger rarely starts a story, they tend to come from the mainstream media. And, by the nature of the medium, blogs cannot be read in isolation from each other.
45 stories [...]

Cre8d started a discussion a few weeks ago, that I have unreservedly called the best I’ve seen in a year of blogging.
There are several reasons for my effusive statement.
Why? It is orginal and creative. No one looked at Daypop and linked up.
This came from the god bloggers.
The most important and life-affirming reason is the courtesy [...]

You are cordially invited to participate in an on line chat with bloggers and readers hosted by signposts.
It’s a grand idea, and something I have been hoping to see for quite some time. With the tech skills at signposts, they have supplied an irc web interface for your convenience, if you are unable to set [...]

It’s the Victoria Day weekend in Canada and the weather has been very co-operative in our neck of the woods, so I shall be brief.
Living Room posts an interview that asks the same questions Rachel asked about church. It’s a powerful read. I’ve seen plenty of posts defending an institutional structured format, but I [...]

I had a bad day this week. I got up on the wrong side of the bed, and nothing I could do or think could snap me out of the funk.
I am by nature not a patient person. I tend to want to problem solve now and move on. And although life does not work [...]

This article entitled Blog eats Blog is a facinating critique of the top “A” list bloggers and the recent O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference.
Of course, it’s important that someone, somewhere tries to get a handle on the future, and we should be grateful to the assembled geeks and net gurus for taking time to do that. [...]

Oh my. There are definite advantages to living in Northern Canada.
We are in for a major show tonight, the sky is clear, the moon is so big, it is almost surreal.
This is going to be some eclipse.
About a 10 minute walk from my front door, I am away from city lights.
People are already gathering at [...]