I was at Rewired State last weekend and so a week or so ahead, I got around to applying to an XML Gateway account in order to get some interesting data out of there - this blog is mostly about a few technical aspects of using the gateway, but first, I hope you’ll forgive a short rant about the dif...

Orbitcast is live blogging the full-year 2008 and fourth-quarter 2008 investor conference call. Keep hitting the refresh button to see the latest updates. Regular old introductions of "forward looking statements" David Frear is on right now talking about how the company still managed to grow despite...

Robert Reich's Blog: Is Obamanomics Conservative or Revolutionary?: The basic idea of Reaganomics was that the economy grows from the top down. Lower taxes on the wealthy make them work harder and invest more, and the benefits trickle down to everyone else. Rarely in economic history has a theory be...

In this post Liz from Pocket Cultures shares 5 tips on how to develop a blog that is friendly to those from around the world. First of all, why do you want to blog for a global audience? Well, the world is getting more connected, and people in more and more countries are becoming active online. Pock...

    God's Special Warriors In ever army there are special warriors. Soldiers who because of their training or skills are able to be used in ways that the average soldier could never be used. Special ops soldiers have been the difference between victory and defeat in many battles. God has alway...

for all your prayers and support, they mean the world to us.Storm has had a brain video kind of thing but the conclusuon is that he is not epileptic, it all looked good. 5 doctors are having a meeting everyday to see what they come up with on what he could have. I have received a couple of links fro...

Having a solid credit score has been important for quite a while now, but it’s actually becoming more important these days as lending tightens up. There’s a reason that the Fair Isaac Corporation — the organization that calculates the credit score that most major lenders rely on — ha...

“On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.” — The words of a well-known adage dating back to a New Yorker cartoon from 1993 have been interpreted and re-interpreted, acting over the years as a starting point for debates on privacy and online anonymity. In Japan, a country wit...

By Greg Perkins from NoodleFood,cross-posted by MetaBlog How do you quickly explain -- or at least motivate further exploration of -- subtle ideas that would challenge "what everybody knows"? It's just hard, a skill to be practiced, which is why I eagerly listened to the (quite excellent) debate bet...

By Roberto 'Tito' Sarrionandia from Tito's Blog,cross-posted by MetaBlog Today I got together a parcel for my Conservative candidate Simon Hart. After thinking long and hard about it, I chose Atlas Shrugged as the book to send him.I also sent this letter. Dear Simon Hart, I enclose, a...