Gunners Palace is a recent Saddams palace just in the center of Baghdad. A journalist has been living there among the soldiers for several weaks, going with them on raids, etc. The site gives an inetersting view inside the soldiers thoughts, their fears, and their perspective of the iraq-war.
This „Wahl-O-Mat“ is a very interesting tool (sorry, it´s just in german, turkish oder russian) for germans, and their decision for what party ever in the upcoming european election: you click through a certain number of thesis, and can decide wether to say yes, no, neutral or don´t know to the questions. After finishing the questions you get a result of which party fits best to your answers. Unfortunately my result was quite the other handside of the party i usually tend to chose: i guess i have to think abut this, and still have to read a lot…
Here you can find a Top 25 list of influential sites about politics on the internet. Among them, and for me it´s a quite fascinating one, is the one from Ben Casnocha comcate.com. Ben is a now 16-year old boy who founded his first comapny at the age of twelve, providing e-government software. This is true entrepreneurship….
RSS to WAP: this seem s to make sens…RSS feeds aren´t that big (mostly they are text-orientated) and you now can read them wherever you are on your mobile phone via wap. But it´s even more interesting, that I came to this service via an advertisement feed on the google-blog.
Next weekend we have to elect the new european parliament. Here´s a list of our lovely german politicians being already in the european-parliament and their amount of attendence: Nearly half of them are UNDER 85%!
(thanks Loic for the pointer.)
Well, it looks as if bloglines has a mobile version. Now, this really rocks! With millions of mobiles getting on the internet soon, this is a reliable and small must visit! All your info´s on your cellphone. Great! But I wonder how bloglines.com will managa to keep all it´s great services free. If they would offer a paid service for about $ 30 /year I would definitely want to pay for it.
Well, feedburner.com (in pre-alpha release) is a nice tool to tune your feed: insert your blog feed, and get a „feedburner-alias-feed“ with the possibility to make it suitable for nearly every newsaggretor to read, shrink it for mobile use, or get a lot statistics around new visitors, subscriptions, etc…very nice for all you marketers 😉
…chinese economy? Ask Fons Tuinstra from Shanghai!
This is a wonderfull wiki about PRF in times of weblogs, RSS, and the internet in whole. Get in depth with interviews of Ross Mayfield, the president of Socialtext, Steve Rubel (Micro-Persuasion), Jay Rosen (PressThink) and Dan Gillmor (San Jose Mercury News) why they blog, and with which consequences…