EC offering a billion euros for ICT research. From a European Commission news release, 29 Sept: “The Union's priority for R&D in Information Society Technologies (IST) aims to bring technologies closer to people, ensuring that all Europe's citizens and businesses can, and actually do benefit from technological advance…[The]… [InternetPolicy.net]

Hallucinogenic “tablets” hit Baghdad? [bOing bOing]

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is this really happening or did someone start broadcasting fox news there too?

Deflating the Blog Bubble: this guy is soooooo right….:

During one of the Saturday sessions a member of the audience referred to the assembled crowd as “utopia”. Now, yes, I loved the blog camaraderie but quite frankly I don't want to be the only black person in utopia. I was the only black person in that room, and was one of a few minorities. I'm not whining about that, but simply stating the fact that a technology that is mostly the pursuit of upper middle class white males does diddly to change the real world. I'm a geek through-and-thorough but when I hear tooth gnashing about issues like copyright as if they were the most important issue in the world – it tells me that the blog world is somewhat out of touch.

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