There have been several books written about blogging, Rebecca Blood’s: The Weblog Handbook being a popular and initial entry into the field.
The current book about blogging making the rounds is by a US pundit named Hugh Hewitt entitled Blog. Both authors have blogs, one is in a social network/technical field and one is a [...]

The first Canadian Blog Awards were put together by a blogger - Robert of My Blahg. He deserves a great deal of credit for all the hard work he put into it.
I suppose in time these kinds of awards will be taken over by a company or a none blogging consortium. It means more [...]

Angus Reid did a poll on the least liked Canadians.
It was a typical telephone poll conducted in November and surveyed 1000 people.
People had to pick a living Canadian. What is wrong with this picture?
What living Canadian do you like least?
(Ranking)
1. Paul Martin
2. Jean Chrétien
3. Brian Mulroney
4. Don Cherry
5. Stephen Harper
6. Jean Charest
7. Ralph Klein
8. Bernard [...]

The Canadian government (federal) has set up a web page where policy issues can be discussed by voters.
The online discussion is summarized and passed on to policy makers in Foreign Affairs.
If nothing else it is an interesting use of the internet, and gives people an opportunity to present their views. I don’t know how seriously [...]

Er, Live Journal isn’t live at the moment.
Millions of blogs are offline because of a power failure at a data center.
I’m not quite sure what a data center is, but apparently it lost it’s main power source and it’s back up power source.
If I’m understanding correctly, they lost power to servers.
Updates on restoration are [...]

If you’re among the millions of Americans who took airline flights in the months before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the FBI probably knows about it - and possibly where you stayed, whom you traveled with, what credit card you used and even whether you ordered a kosher meal.
The bureau is keeping 257.5 million [...]

Joe Carter of the Evangelical Outpost has started collecting US evangelical blogs - people (bloggers) of like mind that wish to influence the culture. Joe calls it ‘buying a ticket.’
Evangelicals are a lot like Saul. We want to transform culture, protect religious freedom, and have an impact the lives of our neighbors. What we don’t [...]

Although computer use is growing and 800 million people are now online, more people are logging off.
Whether they are seasoned veterans, anxious newbies, or somewhere inbetween, users are fed up with viruses, spam and spyware.
Online shopping grew 1% in 2004 after growing 20% in 2003.
Spyware generally transmits information to third parties and sometimes takes control [...]