The Blog Herald estimates in the US, Canada, New Zealand, UK and Australia there are over 36 million blogs.
Asia: Japan, China, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Phillipines and India: 24.5 million
Europe: France is known to have 1.5 and averaging in non-anglo blogs, Europe is estimated to have a sub-total of 2 million.
Russia: [...]
Last week I came across Blogebrity.
My initial response was why would anyone wish to read it. My second thought was all is, vanity, vanity, all is vanity. I don’t care about the A list, nor the B, C, or V list. My final thought was that is was US based. Sorry, I really like [...]
Exalead is a snazzy search engine out of France that has some interesting features you won’t find with Google or Yahoo.
It has a clean interface entry.
There are a couple of excellent features. Advanced search offers fuzzy queries and a feature that’s great for crossword fans. The feature is called regular expressions. Let’s say I’m [...]
A few days ago Joe Carter at The Evangelical Outpost posted about a picture that is currently up on the official US Marine site. (still up - I just checked).
As a former marine, Carter is objecting to content on the grounds of ignorance and disrepect.
What I found interesting was the comments.
Carter stated clearly what he [...]
This isn’t a surprise.
An auditing firm hired by the Gomery Inquiry tabled a report today saying another 105 million dollars has been found regarding linked to Liberal sponsoship. The firm went back to 1994. Auditor General Shiela Fraser’s report went back to 1997.
This brings the total to 335 million.
The firm billed the Gomery inquiry 1.7 [...]
Stevens was a member of the Mulroney government who resigned in 1986 over conflict of interest charges. 17 years later the report was overturned.
In 2003 Stevens launched a legal challenge against the merger of the Progressive Conservative and Alliance Parties. He lost.
Now Neale News and pundit blogs found a site bloc-harper.com was registered by the [...]
An 86 year old woman is in jail in North Carolina for misusing the 911 system.
You can read the story for yourself here.
She may well be saner than you or I. She may well be lonely and cantankerous.
I don’t think jail is where this lady belongs. It sounds like what she needs is a good [...]
There was a disconnect yesterday between my online life and my offline life.
My family friends and neighbours come in all sizes, shapes, ages, economic status, beliefs, and political stripes. Not one I’ve talk to watched the budget vote yesterday.
It isn’t that some didn’t care, it isn’t that some didn’t see that procedurally Ottawa went somewhere [...]

“We Canadians live in a blind spot about our identity. We have very strong feelings about who we aren’t but only weak ones about who we are. We’re passionate about what we don’t want to become but oddly passive about More
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