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The Blog, The Press, The Media: PR & Surfers' Turf: We Are The Champions (Of The World)
London won a two-way fight with Paris by 54 votes to 50 at the IOC meeting in Singapore, after bids from Moscow, New York and Madrid were eliminated. Rare chance to turn next generation towards sport
YOU don’t often get the chance to have the Olympic Games in your own city or even your own country, never mind just around the corner from where you were born. But that is what is going to happen if London is selected to stage the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Singapore today.
• Things I Couldn't Say Out Loud...and Didn't - Ecstatic Londoners celebrate winning Games London beats Paris to 2012 Games [Google: London Calling ; ASIO gags media]
• · The Sydney Morning Herald hasn't been as vocal on Bernard Lagan's Latham book as it might have been. Stephen Mayne explains why: Why the SMH snubbed Bernie Lagan ; Tim Porter Some Sparkles from the Fourth ; Hello compares! Welcome to the Mafia Site
• · · Who needs Big Brother when you’ve got Scoopt. It is the first picture agency set up specifically to help citizen reporters around the world sell the pics they take on their cameraphones Scoopt ; Planet Earth has become the new battleground for the world's leading search engines and Google looks to have stolen an early lead Mapping the new battleground for search engines ; Why would a 30-something, successful journalist and state government public relations officer drop everything to risk her life as a 'human shield' against the American bombs dropping on Baghdad? Donna Mulhearn
• · · · The creation of global networks is taking a back seat to wrangling over control over the Internet Is U.S. Telling ICANN It Can’t? ; Going against previously stated policy, the United States Department of Commerce has decided not to hand over control of DNS (Domain Name System) services Icann might have staked out domain for red-light district, but it will have to wait for green light via Google ICANN needs international rescue ; Anonymous comment in peril ? ; Now it's the Washington Post's turn to write a silly, paranoid, and ignorant story smashing blogs Beware the blogs! Your Blog Is My Blog
• · · · · Bush accused of having obsession with secrecy ; Talk about lack of accountability. Ed Harriman of the London Review of Books examines the flow of money into and out of Iraq since the US invasion. It’s a long tale of incompetency, malfeasance and greed Where has all the money gone? ; Pentagon Finances= No Accountability Exploiting a traged
• · · · · · Tim Blair: NSW premier to a Pentecostal Christian conference: This week you are turning the Superdome into a cathedral Vanishing Bob Carr: Devine (sic) intervention ; Tim Blair unaware of the foxy sharks Andrew West: Northern Crocodile Dundee; In the stolen-data trade, Moscow is the Wild East ... This Gorbushka vendor offers a hard drive with cash transfer records from Russia's central bank for $1,500 (Canadian) Russia's Black-Market Data Trade