Jackson: Baseball Needs to Protect Bonds

"AP - The Rev. Jesse Jackson says Major League Baseball and San Diego police failed to protect Barry Bonds and should be trying to find out who threw a syringe at him in the Giants' opener."

239 Biggest Cities in the USA

Measured by population. New York City comes out top. Does this explain the popularity of news stories about New York City?

Who's monitoring your online searches and why?

Search engines like Google are increasingly in the news, both because of privacy concerns and questions around censorship and filtering of search results. Tom Fudge, host of KPBS Radio program These Days,...

ETech: Your Attention Please

"Dave Sifry from Technorati expanded on that shortly after by pointing out that "time" is really the most valuable thing out there considering that we only have so much of it so spend, there's no way to get any more of it, and once it's spent there's no way to get...

Seth Goldstien at ETech: Attention Broker

We are all producers of attention.  Is attention the base commodity of the user generated web?  So many questions but what is being said at ETech:"Seth Goldstein is talking about Root Markets:...

FedEx: ExpressPay Hack 'No Different Than Stealing'

"Days after a hardware security expert demonstrated jaw-dropping security holes in FedEx Kinko's ExpressPay cards, company officials said the company doesn't think the security holes pose a risk to customers....

Housing Bubble 'Fever Has Broken' In CA

 ""The median price of an existing home in the San Diego region was down 2.1 percent in December, and sales were down 21.3 percent, compared to the same period last year, a real estate group reported. The median price of a home in San Diego stood at $603,680 in December,...

TIME.com: Disgraced Congressman 'Wore a Wire'

In a week when legislators are focused on the question of who else might be brought down by ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff's cooperation with prosecutors as he seeks lenient sentencing over his two federal guilty pleas this week, sources tell TIME that in a separate...

Jury Fines Wal-Mart for 8 Million Labor Violations

After three days of deliberations, a California jury yesterday found Wal-Mart guilty of illegally denying workers lunch breaks. The jury awarded $172 million to about 116,000 current and former...

Help bring Byron home

On November 4, 2005 a nineteen year old young man made a call to his grandmother stating he was scared and would she come to were he was.When the grandmother arrivied, she saw that the young man was upset and told him to follow her into their home town of Milton Freewater...

Men who left bar to avoid fight get one anyway (San Diego Union-Tribune)

SAN DIEGO, 7:32 a.m. Nov. 18 (UNION-TRIBUNE): A group of men who left a Pacific Beach bar to avoid an altercation early Friday morning got into a fight with two other men outside the bar that left one man with a six-inch cut on his neck, police said.

Quake of 4.9 magnitude strikes Southern California - Yahoo! News

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 4.9 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Southern California shook parts of the state on Sunday, according to the Seismological Laboratory at Caltech, but there were no reports of injuries.

2005 MLB Playoff's: Padres Ready for Big Test

In a span of four seasons, from 1996-99, the Padres nearly went from first to worst to first to worst. Now here they are, first and worst at the same time. OK, so we got that out of the way. Also behind us is...

Bonds Knocks Out 708: Just Not Enough

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The San Diego Padres can finally put some champagne on ice. After four months of playing mediocre ball, they're on the cusp of winning the NL West. Ramon Hernandez hit a go-ahead grand slam and...

The world's best video diarists

Bloggers have moved into a new dimension - streaming video.Tomas Rawlings logs on to find the cream of the crop SOURCE The Independent Rocketboom http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/ The vblog that everybody is talking about. Based in New York, Rocketboom is a professional...

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