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Marine Protesters and Counter Protesters In Berkeley, California, Again

Bikers roared into the town Berkeley California again in waves of 60 at a time and Chairman of Move America Forward, Melanie Morgan was there with them to show support for U.S Troops.
Posted Jun 23, 2008 by  Sue D. | 78 comments

Mother, 59, gives birth to twins and abandons them because they're girls

A British mother gave birth to healthy twins but she and her husband abandoned them immediately at a hospital because they wanted boys.
Posted May 29, 2008 by  Chris V. (cgull) | 10 comments

Op-Ed: Sexualizing our Children

Miley Cyrus has publicly apologized for the controversial photo shoot for Vanity Fair magazine, but what does it say about our society when such a picture is taken by a professional photographer in the first place?
Posted May 3, 2008 by  Mr Garibaldi | 11 comments

Op-Ed: Turkish Barber In Saudi Arabia To Be Beheaded for 'Cursing God'

A Saudi Arabian court recently ratified the conviction of Turkish barber Sabri Bogday, who was sentenced to beheading on charges of "cursing the name of God." Can there be any doubt where Osama bin Laden got his extremism from?
Posted May 3, 2008 by  Johnny Simpson | 7 comments

Op-Ed: Citizen Journalism? They don’t even know what it is

A quick search of Citizen Journalism will convince anyone that it means ridiculous things like Digg and Newsvine. No content, just earnest idiots scrabbling away on links. Mainstream has a theory it means other people, which for them is a revelation.
Posted Apr 22, 2008 by  Paul Wallis (Wanderlaugh) | 12 comments

TinFoil Hat Alert: Laptops Subject To Search When Entering The Country

Kiss your privacy goodbye! An appeals court upholds the decision that is it OK for customs to search your laptop for inappropriate files as you enter and exit the country, giving the government direct access to your financial and other private records.
Posted Apr 22, 2008 by  malan | 5 comments

DigitalJournal.com Featured On New Media Blog TechCrunch

It looks like Canada's DigitalJournal.com have finally gotten a nod from none other than TechCrunch, one of the Web's most respected Web 2.0 blogs.
Posted Apr 22, 2008 by  malan | 11 comments

Op-Ed: Jimmy Carter Peacemaker or Useful Fool?

Jimmy Carter, 39th President of America, seems to have completed his much-opposed meeting with the terrorist organization Hamas, returning with the message, “Hamas is prepared to accept the right of Israel to live as a neighbor next door in peace.”
Posted Apr 21, 2008 by  LewWaters | 24 comments

Op-Ed: Earth Hour Lights Out Not Such a Bright Idea

Today’s Earth Hour campaign implores us to shut off our power for one hour. It may sound altruistic on the surface, but Earth Hour is a joke, another eco-friendly gimmick that pretends to offer a quick solution to the complex problem of climate change.
Posted Mar 29, 2008 by  David Silverberg | 23 comments

Fuji Apples Reveal Unusual Cell Growth

A scientist has discovered clumps of previously-unreported callus hairs growing in the flesh of mature apples of Fuji and closely-related varieties, which may have storage implications for commercial growers.
Posted Mar 25, 2008 by  Bob Ewing | 7 comments

Bell Canada Purposely Slowing Down Net Traffic For All File-Sharing and Torrents

Internet service provider Bell Canada has admitted to throttling traffic and slowing data transfers for its third-party ISPs, DigitalJournal.com has learned. Some customers are facing Net speed slowed down from 500 to 30 kilobytes per second.
Posted Mar 25, 2008 by  David Silverberg | 8 comments

Why Is There So Little Embedded Newspaper Content On The Web?

The established media is not participating in the bonanza of online audience-dominated tools to the extent that everyone that has only a vague idea of brand loyalty would expect.
Posted Mar 23, 2008 by  Angelique van Engelen | 2 comments

Two-Thirds of Americans Believe Traditional Journalism is 'Out of Touch'

According to a new poll, more than two-thirds of the U.S. believe traditional journalism is out of touch with what Americans want from their news. The survey also showed more people are turning to the Web to get their daily news fix.
Posted Feb 29, 2008 by  Chris Hogg | 8 comments

The Internet Will End In 30 Years

New warnings are out about a new computer bug, similar to the millennium bug that will affect all Unix-based computer systems. "Exerts" say that when it activates in 2038, the Internet will end.
Posted Mar 14, 2008 by  malan | 10 comments

'Dead Peasants Insurance' - insure your employees, cash in when they die

If you’ve never had bulimia, but have always wanted to try, this is the news you’ve been waiting for. Dead peasants insurance is an $8 billion a year industry in America, and comprises 20% of insurance sold per year. It’s a real cottage industry.
Posted Mar 13, 2008 by  Paul Wallis (Wanderlaugh) | 8 comments

Op-Ed: Go Tell It On the Bloomberg- America on the rocks

Credit where it’s due, pun intended. One major leaguer isn’t peddling recession euphemisms. Bloomberg have put together a real picture of the credit crunch. The Easter Bunny isn’t doing the editing, unlike the rest of the chicken waste recycling.
Posted Mar 7, 2008 by  Paul Wallis (Wanderlaugh) | 13 comments

Op-Ed: Delegate Dither-athon- Where’s the democracy?

So the inability to come up with single rule, and the ability to polarize any situation have wound up with yet another set of ideas to deal with the Democrats’ self-inflicted problem. If you were looking for an unnecessary mess, this would be it.
Posted Mar 6, 2008 by  Paul Wallis (Wanderlaugh) | 5 comments

Is Live Blogging At Events Illegal?

Recently, a reporter was ejected from a basketball game because he was live-blogging the event for his newspaper's site. The International Cricket Council is also considering banning sites that live-blog cricket matches without paying for rights.
Posted Jan 2, 2008 by  malan | 5 comments

ER Doctors Show Racial Bias in Prescribing Painkillers

Racial minorities are less likely than whites to receive painkillers in U.S. emergency departments, a new study reports. The reasons for the disparity are not clear, but there is enough evidence to warrant change in protocols for pain management.
Posted Jan 2, 2008 by  David Silverberg | 6 comments

Op-Ed: Let's have some New Year's Irresolution

Emerson wrote "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." The ability to admit error is what allows us to grow intellectually. So with the new year upon us now would be a good time to form some New Year's Irresolutions.
Posted Jan 2, 2008 by  lensman67 | 21 comments
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