Yes, it is once more 'Gamers unite', Child's play charity drive is back for the year 2006, this makes this the fourth Child's play drive, and gamers have once more been generous.
So help out...n_n
Here is a link to Child's Play, further I' am currently waiting for the result of a poll, and if the poll is positive this link will be posted under the 'Websites of Note' link-list.
Child's Play Homepage
I was made aware of a Search engine that searches in a very innovative way, or rather the response the searching engine gives the user is...rather unexpected. The search engine is called Ms. Dewey, it is represented with the help of a young female avatar, which to every search gives a response. Those responses are most of the time on the more humorous side, the avatar can give such as 'Toys' the response could be something like this 'As a child my parents gave me gender neutral dolls to play with, really...ok not really.' After the response of the Avatar has been completed the search results will appear, I must admit this search engine is most interesting and very entertaining.
Ms. Dewey
Al Jazeera a News agency based in Qatar, has aired its English channel, further they also maintain a English website. Al Jazeera entered with this move the world of BBC and CNN which are now directly competing with this new international News agency. The Al Jazeera services will be limited for now until the first of January, further the number of nations in which Al Jazeera can be watched is still comparatively small.
Al Jazeera Website (English)
Yes, I' am holding the first poll in this Blogs history that will directly influence the management of the Blog itself. It is supposed to answer a question that I have been trying to answer for quite some time. Yes, I have posted two essays in the early stages of the Blog back in the first months. You have to register on the forum to vote, the registry process should not take longer then five minutes. Further I' am aware that I said that all news and changes will posted on the Forum yet due to still a very conservative use of the Forum I decided to put this one on Blog since it actually affect the Blog and makes it easier for all readers to know of the poll.
Yes, it is most interesting that news agencies such as the BBC, have begun to use Blogs as sources for stories. While the general 'blogging community' is considered to be mainly doing nothing else but bleeding their hearts out onto the Internet. This is not true anymore, and was never true for many blogs, the matter of the fact is that the 'blogging community' has developed into two distinct forms of 'Bloggers' those are a) the journal writing ones that write concerning their day-to-day life, b) the ones that try to write articles that make more information available to more people by writing articles of their own. Here is the URL to an example of that very strategy used by the BBC. This is a most interesting turn for Blogging which shows that blogs are in the first stages of being considered sources of 'good' or 'legit' information.
{EDIT} See the forum to information concerning the edit...hehe...here is the link
Edit information
The United Nations Security Council instated the first permanent International Criminal Court, this was done against the resistance of the US Government which feared the prosecution of soldiers employed by the US Government.
Here is the link...
International court in first case
I' am in the process of collecting addresses to Blogs which then will go on a link list for Blogs on this Blog, up to twelve Blogs will be put on that link list, and once the forum has actual participants the forum community will be able to bring suggestions forward on which then there will be a vote, by the community if more then 50% vote for the Blog being added to the link list the Blog will be added, if another Blog has to be dropped for that there will be another vote concerning which of the Blogs is to be dropped.
Hehe, yes this Blog is part of that...lol...anyways here is a very interesting article from the BBC...further if you follow what the article said you should start commenting on the Blog and posting on the Forum...this way my e-mail account might see a little less traffic...lol.
I know I said that you can always contact me and comment, yet I was primarily thinking of on the Blog and now on the Forum...we don't want yahoo to start charging me money because of the eating up of Bandwidth for e-mails...now do we?
PS. I added the link to this post...
Blogosphere sees healthy growth
As can be seen I once more changed the link system and added several new links, one of the links in the Resource section is a link to the 'Ethical Code of Bloggers' however I like to think that until now I did adhere to this code, further I intend to continue to do so, yet if you, the reader see in-coherencies or errors, don't be shy to point them out by commenting or e-mailing or posting on the forum. Not that you have been shy up until now. I want to use this moment thank every reader that was vigilant and pointed errors out or questioned certain points in articles, Thank you for doing so and I hope that you will continue to do so.
P.S. I know that I said that all announcements and Notices would be posted on the forum, yet due to the lack of participation there I decided to at least post this one here and on the forum.
A Bloggers' Code of Ethics (Cyberjournalist)
Handbook for Bloggers and Cyberdissidants (RSF)
Firefox has reached a new generation 2.0 it has a visual remake as well as more features that allow for a safer and hopefully more satisfying Web-browsing experience.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
here is the link the download page where you can then find Firefox 2.0
The New Features include:
A build in Spell checker that checks everything you write for errors!
Identity Theft Protection has been included!
Improved Features include:
The Tab-browsing has been improved
The integrated Search capabilities have bin improved
Web-feed performance has been improved
Security Model has been improved upon
Customization has been brought to a new level
And of course it is open source...n_n
I Merged the Story Time Blog with Stuff, all poems and Stories of Story Time are now available on this Blog.
All articles have now been equipped with Labels which allows the reader to access articles that have been Labeled for the same Category, if for any reason the Labels are incorrect or they do not cover the sufficient number of areas feel free to leave a comment and I will try to fix it as fast as possible.
There is also a label link list in place which allows the reader to simply select a category and then all the articles in that category will be shown.
Stuff and Story Time will form now on feature two different languages, both are from Europe one will be English so there is nothing new, but the second language in which from now on some articles are written and/or translated is German.
The article on Communism and Capitalism as religions has been updates, I' am sorry that these updates took so long but I had not a great deal of time last week...
Updates Article
Hey,...I know 'Stuff' has been a little dry which is why I have added a story Blog, www.paladinstories.blogspot.com.
