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Dehareng's blog has a small but active base of commenters. A picture depicting bored women eating a candleless cake inspired one reader to note, "The cake sucks, the trashy candleholder is pathetic ... but I love the decorations on top of the air conditioner." And the three teenage girls with hair hanging in their faces? A reader reached back to the '90s with "The Hansons wonder what happened to their careers...
...journalism at Hong Kong University who specializes in Internet issues, agreed that China may be repeating past mistakes: "China has a long history of edicts targeted at the tech, telecoms, and media sectors going unenforced, quietly retracted, or morphed in practice into something very different," she wrote on her blog, citing unsuccessful attempts to ban encryption software, force online video websites to be government-owned, and oblige bloggers to register with authorities using their national ID cards. "As the week progresses I'm putting more of my money on the likelihood that the Green Dam filtering software edict will...
...wakes up the brain," María Amelia López explained in one of the last entries in her acclaimed online journal, amis95.blogspot.com. The name roughly translates as "my 95 years." That was how old López--who died May 20 at 97--was when she began posting on the blog that her grandson created as a birthday gift. At an age when some elderly women might unwittingly put a floppy disc into a CD drive, López became a worldwide Internet sensation, reaching more than 1.5 million far-flung readers from the comfort of her seaside hometown in Spain...
...skeptical at first. I had met Evan Williams, Twitter's co-creator, a couple of times in the dotcom '90s when he was launching Blogger.com. Back then, what people worried about was the threat that blogging posed to our attention span, with telegraphic, two-paragraph blog posts replacing long-format articles and books. With Twitter, Williams was launching a communications platform that limited you to a couple of sentences at most. What was next? Software that let you send a single punctuation mark to describe your mood? (See the top 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...Obama's decision to stay in Dresden has sparked protests from some of Obama's conservative political critics, who have argued that the visit demonstrates his willingness to highlight America's lesser historical moments. "Dresden: Next Stop on Obama's Apology Tour," ran one headline on the conservative Powerline blog. Obama's aides rejected those suggestions, pointing to the same logistical issues that the president had mentioned, and a desire to find a location that was convenient for Merkel. (See pictures of people around the world watching Obama's inauguration...