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Friday, June 02, 2006



I’m not sure where to start. Hmmmm. The passionate flames are gently licking at the window overlooking Tamarama Beach ... It's been awhile since Media Dragon last updated everybody about his Spanish club shenanigans ... Well, pull up a chair and fix yourself a cup of hot cocoa, because you're in for a treat. Actually, not really. But you should have learned not to expect too much from us by now ;-) It's a time to remember and give thanks for the quick witted bloggers like Liz ... No matter how much information we have at our fingertips, discovering bloggers who spread passion is very rewarding.

I could cry. I could crumble down and cry every time I see her.”
Love has so many forms, so many shapes and sizes. It can give so much, and it can fill in so many empty places. Love can turn the world into a glorious promise and fulfill it at the same time. Call it fate or luck: Queen of Sun Liz Strauss

The Blog, The Press, The Media: The revolution will not be televised
I’ve changed my mind about art more than once, and in so doing I’ve learned that I not infrequently start by disliking something and end up liking it

Not always—sometimes I decide on closer acquaintance that a novel or painting isn’t as good as I’d thought. More often, though, I realize that it was necessary for me to grow into a fuller understanding of a work of art to which my powers of comprehension were not at first equal.


• Money for nothing? The band Dire Straits promised me that years ago, but so far I've had no such luck. Blogging art [I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without Antlike ; There is no single Greek literary work of art as great as The Divine Comedy Good God almighty! That woman is a sewer! ]
• · It is no accident that technology commentator Bill Thompson believes that the web does a lot to promote chance discovery Serendipity casts a very wide net ; Marie Osmond Shocked By Daughters' Internet Sex Talk Marie Osmond Shocked By Internet Sex Talk
• · · Australian bloggers will no longer be a small voice in the world wide wilderness following the launch of a local search tool that aggregates the most current Australian blogs Gnoos - Aussie blog search tool launched; Gnoos
• · · · It is an uncomfortable conclusion from happiness research data perhaps - but multicultural communities tend to be less trusting and less happy Does diversity make us unhappy? ; 06/06/06 is coming - It is not enough to climb Everest or cross Iron Curtains any more. You must have a gimmick like Google and Media Dragon: Whether you're charged with preventing hacks, protecting assets, stopping fraud or defending trademarks, Google and other search engines present a new mix of risks for everybody in the security game. 5 Ways Google is Shaking the Security World
• · · · · This is an opinion piece. So take it as such. To all those who have asked me. This is why I think clickfraud FAR exceeds what is being published by search companies. Bad guys exist. Why I think ClickFraud is far greater than imagined. ; The past few months have not been fun. I feel like I've let you, my community of readers and conversants, down, and I've failed to do what I really love to do - think out loud about what all this really means. Why this mea culpa? On Searchblog, and Trying to Do Too Much
• · · · · · Wotif.com soars 66% in its first day of trade Accomodation website Wotif.com stormed onto the sharemarket on Friday, firmly focused on expansion Wotif.com soars 66% in its first day of trade ; 55 Ways og Fun. Philipp Lenssen has a website, Google Blogoscoped, that I read every day. Google Experiment Collapses "More" Links