Sunday, April 02, 2006

eponym.com. A new free blogging platform called Eponym has launched. It is apparently very simple and straightforward to use. AdWords Now Using Demographics. John Battelle spotted that Google's AdWords is now offering a demographic targeting feature supplied by Comscore. Demographic site targeting, he points out, will be a big new battleground among the search majors. [Inflection Point] 4:51:45 PM    comment []

Fool Me Twice. Sound familiar? "...For months, I have told interviewers that no senior political or military official was seriously considering a military attack on Iran. In the last few weeks, I have changed my view. In part, this shift was triggered by colleagues with close ties to the Pentagon and the executive branch who have convinced me that some senior officials have already made up their minds: They want to hit Iran." — Joseph Cirincione, director for non-proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Foreign Policy) [Follow Me Here...] 10:47:56 AM    comment []

(Selections from) Dave Pollard's Links for the Week - Apr 1/06. Outsourcing Child Abuse: Katharine Weber in the NYT reviews the long history of children, working brutal hours in factories in inhumane and unsafe working conditions, who have died in avoidable factory fires. She ends with a plea to buy local. Living High on the Brink of Poverty: A perceptive article by James Kunstler reveals how many Americans with high five and six figure incomes need every penny of it to pay accumulated debts and ongoing obligations, and would be devastated if (when) it suddenly stopped. Thanks to Jon Husband for the link. How the Rest of the World Sees the US: A unique and very valuable translator and news aggregator site, Watching America lets Americans discover what those in non-English speaking countries really think of them, and their government. Bunchball Blurs the Distinction Between Games and Website Apps: The Bunchball site started with some novel games that you could play interactively with others on their site, but then they discovered you could port some of these little game apps to your own website or blog. Now the 'games' include an mp3 player app, an interactive photo-posting app, IM and chat apps, and a virtual pig that 'travels' among your site viewers' machines and gives and collects 'gifts' to and from them. Thanks to Umair Haque for the link. Buy Print Cartidges Cheap and Support Charity at the Same Time: That's what LaserMonks lets you do. Thanks to reader Kenn for the link. Unique Views of the World: See maps of the world 'distorted' to show proportional population, immigration, production, resources and lots more, using Worldmapper. Thanks to James Pargiter for the link. [How to Save the World] Plenty of other fine links there, as well as Dave's own meaningful insights. 10:28:43 AM    comment []