Chelsea Clinton Engaged! The Buzz tonight is all about Chelsea Clinton, the 29-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, becoming engaged to her longtime boyfriend, former Goldman Sachs banker turned hedge fund executive Marc Mezvinsky, whose dad [...] 
Poor Poor Tiger Woods! Missin' his mistress, dissin' his missus! Seen on twitter: tiger said his wife had "gone ghetto" - Woods reportedly bought his angry wife a "Kobe Special" - also some discussion earlier on twitter comparing Tiger to Rihanna!
TechCrunch How Did The Major Online Retailers Cope With Black Friday Madness? - Website monitoring service InternetVista vigorously measured the uptime and response time of seven of the most popular Internet retail websites...
Pakistan: Take Back The Tech Campaign:::In Pakistan, P@SH@ (Pakistan Software Houses Association) is pushing the Take Back The Tech initiative forward to take control of technology to end violence against women. They have already launched the campaign on various online platforms, including twitter. [...] 
It's that time of year, when I welcome guest-bloggers' submissions!If you have enjoyed this humble weblog, you could be a guest blogger here! Email me for details. You DO NOT have to be a writer or have a blog* to be considered-' [...]
1st Sergeant James Meltz leads a unit meeting with members of Company D, 2nd Battalion 108th Infantry in Patriot Square, Camp Phoenix, Kabul, Afghanistan on November 8th, 2008.
Before weblogs there were chatrooms, instant messaging and forums. Dialog, interaction in real time caught netizens' fancy. Circa the mid-2000's blogging really got cranking. I'm talking about the days when Technorati, not Google was driving traffic to blogs. The times when Xiaxue's star was ascending... 
Techcrunch is pleading with Thanksgiving Twitterers to offer something unique amid the white noise of holiday shout-outs.
Daul Kim's family closed her blog to anyone but registered users this week and voiced concerns, echoed around the blogosphere, that her death may not have been suicide. Sur son blog personnel, iliketoforkmyself.blogspot.com, la jeune Coréenne exprimait quotidiennement son mal-être, prise dans les filets d’une dépression [...] 
Picky, Picky! Fauna on chinaSMACK posts "Girl Seeks Marriage, Distributes Leaflets w/ High Demands"
Like Thanksgiving itself and the following "Black Friday," I wonder if we shouldn't raise today's status and call it something like "Preparation Day." After all, the children aren't in school today. Those who didn't get the day off are likely planning to leave work early, espeially' [...] 
Do you have any idea who Denise Milani is? Now you will!
Aren't you tired of being a hater?
Are YOU a "Blogebrity" ??? As Profy sees it, "...the vast majority of these “social media stars” are very local and only rarely people beyond the small social media crowd actually know they exist at all."
Throughout this past week, we have continued to work with Arizona authorities. As I mentioned to you in my last message, we have made members of our James Ray International team available to answer questions about the Sedona accident, and this process is ongoing.
Meanwhile, I [...]
CONTROVERSIAL 100 PROOF VODKA INFUSED HOLIDAY TURKEY IS BEING UNVEILED FOR THE HOLIDAY'S BY LOCAL NYC TAVERN. NO ONE UNDER 21 ALLOWED TO EAT AND INCLUDES A TAXI RIDE HOME!
Maybe you did something to invoke the wrath of the googlegod. Or maybe you're not getting the right keywords out. Or maybe your blog is getting buried beneath tons of other blogs. Relax. There is hope.
With all the talk of Swine Flu/MexiFlu/H1N1, I find it amusing that the "Spanish Flu" of 1918 actually started in Kansas - I do recall seeing something a couple of years ago in one of the local papers about the time when the 1918 flu passed [...] 
Remember Fulla? She's getting a little competition, from a converted muslimah named Barbie!
Daniel Pádua [pt] (also known as @dpadua on Twitter) had been recently diagnosed with cancer and lost the battle this week, in Brasília. Always present in open source software and free culture events in Brazil, he was a strong reference for many bloggers in [...] 
Tuition [...]
Had nothing to do Friday night (for a change) so I turned on the TV and found a 1964 movie: One Potato, Two Potato... it's a black-and-white drama film directed by Larry Peerce and starring Barbara Barrie, Harry Bellaver, Faith Burwell and Bernie Hamilton... and [...] 
A recently released music video for "Popular Demand" by the Clipse featured the awning of the infamous Obama Fried Chicken joint in Brownsville, Brooklyn. But in comparing versions of the video airing on MTV and [...] 
Rihanna called into the Bert Show in Atlanta and discussed her ex, Chris Brown. Miss Info has the DL
Imagine the horror this poor little girl must have felt... the things that might have rushed through her mind as she realized she was dying at the hands of a young looney. I can imagine. When I was around 11 I [...] 
Poetic & Photogenic::: Bai Ling!
A great band, criminally overlooked... Wish someone would upload the ORIGINAL music video!!! Pearl Harbor and the Explosions...
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Beyonce and Lady Gaga leak a clip from their forthcoming music video for Beyonce's song Video Phone. The deal, announced on the Twitter blog by Thau, allows Orange UK Twitter users to send picture messages to a number (86444) to be posted to their tweet streams. The reason this works is because Orange UK runs a [...]
My favorite is #3 on NYMag's Brooklyn Top 40
My buddy, who is always careful about where he goes online and what he downloads, just had to wipe his harddrive clean and reload Windows. The other night he went to download a movie (legally!) and of course when he tried to watch it Windows Media [...] 
Above Left, Wendy Cheng (Xiaxue). Right, Monica Tang.
Rainy day! This is the view from the front booth in Spinner's, where I had lunch today.
Will Joe Bruno rise again?
The General Lee::: Spotted in Brooklyn...----------
This message is from [...]
Dear Dave,
I'm continuing to devote all my energy to determine the facts surrounding the tragic accident at Sedona. I've instructed my representatives to meet with the authorities in Arizona and to share with those authorities the facts they learn. That process is ongoing.
In the meantime, I want to let [...]
As many of their supporters feared, and on the same day as a round table on the case against two detained video blogging youth activists, a court in Baku, Azerbaijan, earlier passed sentence on Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli. The verdict and first reaction spread on [...] 
PETA pisses me off. It's wrong to exploit animals but it's OK to exploit women?
A far cry from the innocent days of Rowlf...
Sex Tapes from J. Lo's first marriage won't be in a movie... For Now
Mouseover and click on his calling card (at left), then check out Nidal Hasan Did the Right Thing ::: radical Muslim blogger Anwar Awlaki calls the Fort Hood shooter “hero” and “man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a [...] 
My two trusty tools: the VM Kyocera Wild Card and the Fly Ying F003. I added this photo in a re-post of my "World In Pocket" article on posterous, all about how mobile telephony is changing the way we exchange information. But [...] 
Something happened to James Arthur Ray on his way to spiritual enlightenment: he bumped into the dollar. Not that there's anything wrong with making a buck. JAR went a little buck-a-rooney, it seems. "James Ray pretty much abandoned all of us. He left us there'" [...] 
Yoaní Sánchez, Cuba's most famous blogger, who has received countless international awards for her activism, was detained briefly and beaten by Cuban authorities on November 6, along with fellow bloggers, Claudia Cadelo (a Global Voices contributor) and Orlando Luís Pardo Lazo. Bloggers express their views [...] 
Patience. Death has more than enough. Thursdays papers carried two articles: one about NYS Trooper David Lane. The 30-year old stationed at the Catskill barracks was driving northbound on 32 Wednesday afternoon when his cruiser bumped a vehicle he was trying to pass, sending the police [...] 
Raucous crowd Weds PM at the Elks Lodge in albany bemoaning the pending closure of the underused Pine Hills Post Office. Jeepers, if you wanna save it so badly, GO there - BUY stamps - BUY money orders instead of using checks - SEND packages outta [...] 
"We didn’t know the sad side of her. She was vibrant. She had a lot of friends…"
Killer::: Photo of Nidal Malik Hasan! 
The world's largest maker of microprocessors finds itself in the crosshairs of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo...
Barack Obama's brother in China is out with a book: In the past, Mark Ndesandjo dodged journalists. Now, he tells the world "My father beat me. He beat my mother." Here's press-conference VIDEO from Kenyan TV.
Victory in Albany County for Jerry Jennings & Paula Mahan!
Rihanna speaks to Glamour: “I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears…” (H/T Miss Info)
It's an interesting (and a great) time to be alive, as far as the ability for one to communicate goes... these days that's pretty far! The meshing of internet with mobile phone technology diminishes the space between us all quite impressively.
Of course, there will be radio and TV coverage GALORE!!!!
