Technorati passes 8 million blogs tracked

Sometime over the weekend blog tracking company Technorati passed 8 million blogs, roughly 7 weeks since passing 7 million figure, and 6 million blogs higher that the same time in 2004. Technorati competitor PubSub recently surpassed 9 million blogs, but the service has...

Malaysian Police harass local bloggers

Malaysian Police are reported to have been “interviewing” bloggers about why they blog and ways to control content. According to Malaysiakini.com, a four-member team - two police officers and two unidentified government officials - visited Mack Zulkifli, of blog...

New Scientist Breaking News - 3D printer to churn out copies of itself

A self-replicating 3D printer that spawns new, improved versions of itself is in development at the University of Bath in the UK.

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Token Booth Closings Start in April

The first nine of the 164 token booths scheduled for closing will be shut down in April. The Daily News says the first retired booths will include ones in Union Square and Penn Station, and then the remaining booths will close weekly until October. Then, 600 of the clerks...

Second Annual Robolympics - International Robot Games - Robots From Around Th...

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 8, 2005 -- Facts at a Glance: Date: Thursday-Sunday, March 24-27, 2005 Time: 10 AM - 11 PM. Where: San Francisco State University - 1600 Holloway St, San Francisco Cost: $20/adult, $15/kids 17-7, 6 and under free Web:...

A word from our sponsors

A word from our sponsors : I'm in Florida at the iMedia conference with top online ad clients and agencies and top online publishers (I'm giving my blogboy spiel too early in the a.m.). Tonight, ESPN.com is playing host to a Super Bowl party, of course, with wings and...

Fermi 2 nuclear power plant in Michigan shut down

This just on Drudge: We have a leak of reactor coolant into the containment structure... leak rate was about 75 gallons a minute but is reducing,' John Austerberry, spokesman... 'there is no indication of a radioactive release'

Will Canadians buy this?

Joe McKendrick of Zdnet, writes, "Toronto is one of my favorite cities, and I have the pleasure of knowing many folks from the Canadian IT industry. And, from what I’ve seen in and around Toronto and Montreal, the place buzzes with commerce. It stands to reason, then,...

COOL: ADFS (The .NET Show)

John at Bristowe, writes,  "Last night, I caught the latest instalment of The .NET Show where they discussed Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) (Microsoft Word document, 150 KB), formerly code-named "Trustbridge". Very cool stuff. "