Tim Dowling's debut novel tells the story of freelance journalist Giles Wareing - nearing forty, professionally unfulfilled and distanced from his wife - who discovers a talk thread devoted to criticizing and ridiculing everything he has ever written.

Read five exclusive extracts from the novel, published by Picador, on Guardian Unlimited Books this week :

Teil 1
Teil 2
Teil 3

(Via: buzzmachine)

Via: Insideweb3.fr

Bei blogbox.ch auf GoEar aufmerksam geworden. Eine wunderbare Sache. Nur die Copyright-Geschichte war vermutlich eher so gemeint:



Und NICHT so:



Aber irgendwie liebt Cybi den Dienst jetzt schon ...

"Is the sky falling? That's how it looks to panicked tech companies across the Valley as they contend with Google's ever-expanding power and ambition."

Who's Afraid of Google? Everyone. [Via wired.com ]

Die EIAA präsentiert eine neue Studie zum Internetgebrauch in Europa:

Die EIAA Studie zeigt, dass die Onliner Innovationen, vor allem neue Technologien und Services, im Internet schnell annehmen. Die zunehmende Verbreitung von Breitband-Zugängen in Europa lässt die Konsumenten zunehmend diese technologischen Fortschritte nutzen. So laden 29 Prozent der Befragten mindestens einmal im Monat von Download-Plattformen Musik aus dem Internet.

Blogging hat mit 13 Prozent ebenfalls an Popularität gewonnen. 12 Prozent der Nutzer laden wiederum mindestens einmal im Monat Podcasts aus dem Internet. Sogar neue Technologien wie Voice over IP (VoIP), das Telefonieren über das Internet, sind sehr beliebt: Bereits 10 Prozent der europäischen Konsumenten nutzen VoIP-Services, um online zu telefonieren.

Zur EIAA Mediascope Europe Study - auf Deutsch [Via EIAA ]

The Pew Internet & American Life Project's September-October 2005 survey
of 2,251 Americans showed that:

In the aftermath of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes, 13 million Americans made donations to relief efforts online and 7 million set up their own hurricane relief efforts using the internet.

In addition to using the internet to respond directly to the crisis, 50% of online users sought out news and information online, with most (73%) of their newsgathering happening at Web sites of the mainstream media. Sources such as blogs and international news sites served as important news supplements, with one quarter of those who got Katrina news online turning to one of these sources.

* The number of Americans who say they've ever made a donation to
charity online grew by 53% in our latest survey compared to January
2005.

* 4% of internet users, or approximately 6 million Americans, say they
posted comments, links, or pictures pertaining to the hurricanes to chat
rooms, bulletin boards, or blogs.

* 9% of internet users, or approximately 13 million Americans, used the
interet or email to check on the safety of someone who might have been
affected by the hurricanes.

- Report: Major News Events
- Report als pdf

(Quelle: Pew Internet)

Aus dem Google-Newsletter:

Power Tip - Make a gift photo CD fast
Celebrate special events by creating a photo CD you can send to friends and family. It only takes a minute using Picasa, Google's free photo software. After you've inserted a CD (or DVD) into your writeable drive, open Picasaand select the folder of photos you'd like on CD.
Click the "Gift CD" button and follow the on-screen instructions to add more photo folders, include aslideshow, set the picture size, and name your CD. For friends who want to save and view the photos to their computer, include a copy of the Picasa software (it's only 3.9MB).
Click the "Burn Disc" button and Picasa will do the rest. For a nice finishing touch, add a customized photo CD cover: select a picture and click the "Print" button (go to Tools > Options > Printing to add "CD cover size" as one of the layout options).
http://picasa.google.com

Die neuste Internet-Studie des Pew Internet & American Life Project wurde veröffentlicht:

American teenagers today are utilizing the interactive capabilities of the internet as they create and share their own media creations. Fully half of all teens and 57% of teens who use the internet could be considered Content Creators.

They have created a blog or webpage, posted original artwork, photography, stories or videos online or remixed online content into their own new creations.

About 21 million or 87% of those ages 12-17 use the internet, according to a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The results highlight that this is a generation comfortable with content-creating technology. Teens are eager to share their thoughts, experiences, and creations with the wider internet population. Some key findings:

* 33% of online teens share their own creative content online, such as
artwork, photos, stories or videos.

* 32% say that they have created or worked on webpages or blogs for others,
including groups they belong to, friends or school assignments.

* 22% report keeping their own personal webpage.

* 19% of online teens keep a blog, and 38% of online teens read blogs.

* 19% of internet-using teens say they remix content they find online into
their own artistic creations

Mehr zur Studie gibts: To view the entire report, please visit:
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/166/report_display.asp

Sony's robotic pup Aibo gives new meaning to the term newshound. In its latest evolution Aibo ERS-7M3/T has the ability for short-term memory mapping and news reads through a version of web syndication-- RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. "With one simple voice command Aibo can read the morning's headline news while its owner folds the laundry," said Toshi Kawai, senior manager of Entertainment Robot America (ERA), a division of Sony Electronics in a prepared statement. The AIBO Net News reader capability enables the robot to read its owner news or weather from a choice of RSS feeds available on many websites.

Puppy also comes loaded with the AIBO Diary in case owners want to know what he is up to while they are out of the house. Aibo can take pictures and add notes on its daily activities to its diary. (Yes but what if he's lying?) The diary can be shared by uploading entries directly to a blog site. The dog has its own blog now.

[Via: Wireless Watch Japan ]

Aus dem Mailing der Internet Society - section Geneva ( ISOC GVA):

Dear Members and friends,

The Chair of Internet Society worldwide will be in Geneva on the 27th of September and for this occasion we are pleased to invite you to a conference on:
« Who should oversee the Internet ? Internet oversight mythologies and reality »:

with

Fred Baker,Chair of the Internet Society (ISOC)
"Internet oversight mythologies and reality"

Houlin Zao, Director of the Telecomunication Standardization Bureau, International Telecommunication Unions (ITU) "WGIG report views and Internet governance models"

Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, Professor for International Policy and Regulation, University of Aarhus
(Denmark), "Internet governance models and predicting the future"

Stéphane Koch (moderator), Chair of Internet Society Geneva Chapter.
"strategic, economic and military aspects of the Internet"

(titles of the speaches are provisional)

Date: Tuesday September 27th 2005 - from 6:30 to 8 pm
Place: Club suisse de la presse, la Pastorale - 106, rte de Ferney, 1202 Genève
Access: http://www.pressclub.ch/menu/sub_menu/adresse_csp.html
Language: English, Free entrance

Detail & inscription: http://www.isoc.ch/events/septembre_2005.htm