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China apologises for Roughing up Journalists days before the Olympic Games

The apology came after border police "clashed" with the Japanese journalists who had arrived in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region after an alleged terrorist attack Monday left 16 police dead, Xinhua news agency...

NowPublic Needs to Change - Let Us Be Heard!

One of the newest and best contributors is leaving NowPublic because, as many of us know, things aren't great here. Here's a comment I left for Zichi, the guy who's leaving, and one in which I describe some of...

How to prevent spam in your blog's comments

"The power of the blog comment has turned commenting into a free-for-all contest for this powerful piece of blogging real estate. As your blog grows in readership and popularity, it will act as a magnet. The blog should entice thoughtful readers to communicate with you. On...

Officials hustle to delete Capitol 'pool hall' listing

"In its new business filings section, the current issue of The State Journal, a business weekly published by West Virginia Media Holdings, lists: "Goners Pool Hall, 1900 Kanawha Boulevard, Charleston."[...]It was a test dummy for the system upgrades, but somehow it got on...

Another Haditha Marine Found Not Guilty

Are any of our congressmen and senators who condemned these men without a trial rushing to offer apologies? How about the media? What - no? All I've got to say is that these same people who convicted these Marines...

Endorse horse race

"If the number of endorsements counts for anything when it comes to getting the nod to be Vision Vancouver's mayoral candidate, Gregor Robertson is well ahead.Robertson's camp has emailed so many endorsements to the 12th & Cambie inbox that it's got the IT staff at...

How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free

Social networking sites like Facebook are really great tools for most people, most of the time. Many users, though, don't take the time to familiarize themselves with the personal privacy functions and features....

If your spouse spies on your web surfing...?

"Anonymous writes: I am soon to be a single mother. My soon to be ex-husband and I owned a computer store. I only have a working knowledge of computers; he was very good at it. When he left the house, he still was able to enter the PC, and I think he installed a keylogger...

UK concerned over Facebook's profile deactivation methods

"British officials are set to question Facebook over its data retention methods after a user complained that personal information remained on its severs after he deactivated his account. Facebook's current system still retains some data even after an account is deleted. So...

Opinion: Britney Spears "buys". Now Public?

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCatchy title isn't it?  Advertisers do this daily to get you to pay attention to them. Like most spam advertisers the headline has little truth in what they wish to...

MySpace Censors Anti-War Websites

"MySpace Censors Anti-War Websites Prison Planet blocked as the model for government regulated Internet 2 gets a dry run Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Rupert Murdoch's MySpace has...

maltaStar.com: Student’s program sends PR chaos in Wiki-scandal

Thank the Gods for hackers!!  One smart lad developed a software programme to pingback the data altered on Wikipedia to the source of the IP that made the changes.  So far, the list is very long and very...

IPhone out already to US markets

var searchSection = 'iphone'; AppleStoreMaciPod + iTunesiPhoneDownloadsSupport Search Features Revolutionary PhoneWidescreen iPodBreakthrough Internet DeviceHigh...

Google Search Becomes More Anonymous

"GOOGLE will begin routinely purging its data banks of information that identifies search engine users in order to better shield their anonymity, the company said overnight. Google will delete information from "cookies," bits of software put on computers to track website...

Deleting Images of War: Reporting the Truth

"The U.S. military asserted that an American soldier was justified in erasing journalists’ footage of the aftermath of a suicide bombing and shooting in Afghanistan last week, saying publication could have...

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