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View Article  U.S. liberals put a notch on the blog belt

It’s not exactly the same kind of trophy that conservative bloggers bagged when they skewered some reports by Dan Rather and CBS News, but liberal bloggers in the U.S. have forced the resignation of a conservative online reporter.

Washington Post media reporter/critic Howard Kurtz writes:

The conservative reporter who ...   more »
View Article  Google has maps!

Look out Mapquest and Yahoo! because Google has just taken the wraps off of a Maps product. GoogleMaps is still in a beta testing phase and Google guru Tara Calishain says it looks like Google right now just has maps and driving directions for the U.S. and Canada.

Still, the Google ...   more »

View Article  January's big hits here

A little later than normal with the monthly round-up of what’s been hot here at the blog, but the statistics from which the following list is culled sit patiently on a server back at davidakin.com world headquarters until required. The most widely read post here was one suggested to me ...   more »

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