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Sunday, April 11, 2004
Who wouldn't love this kind of payoff?
Invest $2,000 in an obscure concept that has no track record and watch $80,000 pour into your bank account in a mere three weeks.
Bonus: The money helps win you a congressional seat.
Unlikely as it seems, the Internet's recent explosion of blogging was one of the keys to Ben Chandler's victory last month in a special U.S. House election in Kentucky.
· Low cost and high impact: Web ads score a political hit
The Blogging Iceberg: Me Me MEdia Dragons
Comics have joked for ages that humans will eventually adapt to technology: growing nimbler thumbs for text messaging, or larger ears to compensate for poor signal reception. But in a remarkable breakthrough, scientists believe they have isolated the gene responsible for one specific kind of computer activity - and the race is on to commercialize it.
It's an adaptive, emergent property - and is sure to ignite the Nature versus Nature debate once again. Biologists believe they have found the genetic adaptation responsible for 'weblogging'. The discovery may take the form of what Stephen Jay Gould identified as a 'spandrel' a previous adaptation for which evolution had found no previous use.
· Boffins isolate 'blogging gene'
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