Live warblogging from Iraq: CNN's Kevin Sites launches blog at kevinsites.net

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Kevin Sites bl0g from Iraq: Road to
Nowhere

Kevin Sites bl0g from Iraq: Road to
Nowhere 05/03/2004 12:13 PM
Blogging live from Iraq, MSNBC combat correspondent Kevin Sites posts a new entry today. Last week, he and the the military unit with which he was traveling near Ramadi were hit by an IED, also known as a "roadside bomb."

We will take four humvees on this trip, including a gun truck or technical with a mounted 240 SAW, squad assault weapon and about 20 marines carrying M-16 and M4 assault rifles. As the captain speaks, the marines pass out smoke grenades that could be used to obscure a disabled vehicle from enemy fire. They also pass out fragmentation grenades, olive green orbs with strips of red duct tape wrapped around the handles to keep them from exploding in case the pin is pulled inadvertently.

The captain (who doesn't wanted to be identified by name) reads off a checklist that covers everything from the military grid coordinates for our travel to recent intel on enemy forces in the area, radio frequencies and procedures if we come under attack. "I'm not reading this for my own amusement," he says gruffly, "if something happens to me or Gunny you want to know how to get back so you better be fucking writing it down."

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Kevin Sites bl0g from Iraq: Hilla SWAT

Kevin Sites bl0g from Iraq: Hilla SWAT 09/23/2004 11:14 AM
Xeni Jardin: NBC combat correspondent and blogger Kevin Sites is back in Iraq, and posts a new dispatch with some amazing photos on his blog today.

We've been up since 3am--waiting for Hilla SWAT. It's now 4:30. Despite their annoyance--the Force Recon squad from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit seems extremely patient--at least around Kuni Takahashi, a photographer for the Chicago Tribune and me. Instead they look at their watches--bullshit each other about their individual depravities--like masturbating in sweat socks. Typical life details at a military FOB or forward operating base in Iraq.

These marines at FOB Kalsu still sleep in tents, shit in porta-johns, live in the dirt. This is no Camp Victory green zone paradise with guys chilling in air-conditioned trailers and eating at the Bob Hope Dining Facility--a zeppelin hangar of a building just down the road from Baghdad International Airport. Everyone here has heard the stories--or maybe, been on a convoy through the green zone, briefly glimpsed the way that other half lives. They piss and moan about it--but don't denounce its existence. They are, after all, Americans--it's about aspirations--still believing that hard work and perseverance may someday get you to the Promised Land.

Link, and link to Discuss

Kevin Sites Iraq bl0g: "Paying Back in
Blood"

Kevin Sites Iraq bl0g: "Paying Back in
Blood" 05/10/2004 03:02 PM
Blogger and MSNBC combat correspondent Kevin Sites is in Iraq, and has posted a new entry to his blog today.

When he was nine years old Carlos Gomez crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico to the U.S. with his father, mother and two sisters. They had heard stories about the opportunities in America, dreamed about them, wanted them so badly they ran through oncoming traffic on the 805 freeway to get to them. They didn't stop until they reached San Diego. Fear, fatigue and La Migra slowly fading into the southern horizon like their homeland.

They stayed. Dealt with the slurs--beaners, greasers, wetbacks. Overcame them. Paid back America's opportunities with hard, menial labor. Made a fraction of what citizens and legal immigrants made--but never complained.

And 12 years later, in Falluja, Iraq, Marine Lance Corporal Gomez would pay it back again--but this time with his blood.

Link, Discussion Forum

Latest Kevin Sites bl0g-post from Iraq:
Hearts and Mines

Latest Kevin Sites bl0g-post from Iraq:
Hearts and Mines 11/05/2003 12:08 PM
New photos and first-person accounts from northern Iraq, from MSNBC combat corrrespondent Kevin Sites:

"Well sir, it's been a rough deployment. This -- then the stuff at home -- my wife's probably cheated on me 15 times," he shakes his head and takes a long drag from the stub of his cigarette. Many of the men we see tonight are doing a version of the same thing, smoking -- shaking their heads.

"I looked around town today," one lieutenant told me, "I was hoping to find someone doing something bad, somebody I could hurt -- but there wasn't one. Just people that needed my help."

It's just that kind of mission whiplash that has confused and demoralized so many troops in Iraq. Soldiers are ordered to go on a night patrols or raids--where danger can lurk at every corner or behind every door -- and life and death decisions have to be made within the hair-fraction of time it takes to pull the trigger on M4 assault weapon -- then the next day, they're told to monitor the selection of a new local mayor or to rebuild a school.

Link to photos, Link to story.

Kevin Sites Blog

Kevin Sites Blog 03/14/2003 02:52 AM
Kevin Sites' Blog .. blog

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Kevin Sites' bl0g: How a "sojo" files a
live report -- or doesn't.

Kevin Sites' bl0g: How a "sojo" files a
live report -- or doesn't. 11/10/2003 11:22 PM
Kevin Sites, blogger and NBC News correspondent in Iraq, has posted a fascinating account of the unbelievable lengths to which solo journalists must go to file live satellite transmissions from remote battlefields. Equipment breaks, unexpected technical snafus come up, but news has to get through. Sometimes, the means disassembling gear to make a temporary laptop modem out of a videophone. Sometimes, that means your dinner becomes a tripod.

"At left -- adjusting the camera. See that dirt berm? That's Syria on the other side. See that guy with a gun? That's a new Iraqi border guard. Nice pose, huh. See that guy in camo -- that's Lt. Col. Arnold (he's going to be bummed because he wanted to take off his cold weather gear before going on camera -- too late. It's an Army macho thing).

See that guy behind the camera? That's me. See that tripod? It's a piece of crap -- one of the legs fell off en route to the border and will never be found. See that box of MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat)? That's my new tripod leg. See the Colonel's helmet? That's the counterweight that keeps the camera from tipping over. It's amazing how desperation can push you to new levels of creativity in the middle of the desert."

Link (note: this round of photos shot by Joe Raedle of Getty Images)

Kevin Sites in Iraq -- "Toppled"

Kevin Sites in Iraq -- "Toppled" 04/12/2004 11:33 AM
Blogger and MSNBC combat correspondent Kevin Sites has returned to assignment in Iraq after a short break home in the US. A year ago last Friday, the famous statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad was toppled; Kevin has posted a new essay about the state of Iraq since then. But in light of the multiple hostage situations in Iraq right now, I want to mention one thing that he does not. This also marks the one year anniversary of his capt ure and subsequent release by Iraqi Fedayeen soldiers. We're glad that this story ended with Kevin free and unharmed. Snip from his latest post:

How did things turn so bad so quickly--in which a scattered insurgency gains broader support and the coalition Shiite alliance begins to crack? Some critics say it's a combination of a year of mismanagement by the Coalition Provisional Authority in which the lives of most Iraqis have not improved much since the reign of Saddam Hussein and the hardball tactics of occupation military forces that are alienating the people they were intending to help.

One member of a Ramadi-based Sunni insurgent cell who calls himself "Continuous Jihad" says the Coalition hasn't delivered on anything. "They break into houses in the middle of the night and arrest innocent people," he says, "and they've given us less then we had under Saddam. People are jobless, they distort our religion, and they're taking our oil and living in Saddam's palaces. Nothing has changed. They've become like him, yet they pretend they're here to help us."

Link to "Toppled", blog post from Iraq by Kevin Sites, Link to discussion forum.

Kevin Sites: back *from* Iraq, here's
his latest.

Kevin Sites: back *from* Iraq, here's
his latest. 12/08/2003 02:21 PM
Blogger and MSNBC combat correspondent Kevin Sites posted a final dispatch from Iraq before returning home to the US for a brief break. He returns to Iraq shortly after the holidays.

It is the eve of Eid or the end of the Ramadan and the end of the month long dawn to dusk fasting for many Muslims. It is a time of celebration on par with Christmas for Christians. But the night has begun with a bang. Literally. An IED (improvised explosive device) has exploded just outside the north gate of the 4th Infantry Division's headquarters. I hop in the back of Bressette's Humvee as the patrol heads out to investigate. Bressette gets on his two-way and in the guise of a flight attendant giving the pre-flight briefing, tells the squad the plan. (...)

I videotape Bressette as he walks back to his Humvee with the 1-22's commanding officer Lt. Col. Steve Russell. They at the curb to discuss what's next, when Bressette looks down. He sees something strange; wires sticking out of a concrete block. Suddenly this inert object is filled with potential energy.

"Sir, we better back up," Bressette says, already doing the moonwalk away from the block. "We're standing next to an IED!" The Humvee shoots forward away from the bomb, while the rest of back away. The concrete block has been hollowed out and is packed with enough plastic explosives to kill us. Bressette just shakes his head, still in disbelief that all of us, the Colonel, Bressette and his squad, myself and reporter named Betsy Heil from the Pittsburgh Tribune, were all standing next to a device that could've taken our lives within a fraction of a second.

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New Kevin Sites dispatch from Iraq:
Under Steel Rain

New Kevin Sites dispatch from Iraq:
Under Steel Rain 06/29/2004 06:50 PM
A new weblog dispatch from NBC correspondent and blogger Kevin Sites, about life in the militarized zone with the distinction of having been mortared more than any other in Iraq -- 400 times in the last three months

[S]oldiers aren't the only ones in danger. Civilian employees of Kellog. Brown and Root -- which provide many of the civilian services on base -- are also at risk. Many of the food service employees, mostly foreign workers from poor nations like the Philippines, Pakistan and Bangladesh; say theyre very frightened by the mortars. One says he sleeps on the ground pulling sandbags around him, but while the mortars haven't got him yet, the sand fleas have. He shows me the red bites on arms.

Four Philippine workers were killed at the largest Army supply base in Iraq last April when insurgent rockets hit their living quarters at Camp Anaconda. But those inside the camp aren't completely surrounded by hostility. At dusk in Guard Tower 7, soldiers watch Iraqi boys play soccer not more than a hundred yards away. Some Iraqi civilians even live in shacks right next to the massive walls surrounding the base.

"Hi Nora," one of the soldiers says, waving to a shy ten year old Iraqi girl popping her head out from behind a sheet that covers the opening to the mud and clapboard shack. "Hi Michael," she says in a high-pitched voice, waving then quickly ducking back inside.

Link

Kevin Sites returns to Iraq, new photos
and essays from Baghdad

Kevin Sites returns to Iraq, new photos
and essays from Baghdad 01/26/2004 12:42 PM
NBC combat correspondent and weblogger Kevin Sites has returned to Iraq, and posts two new entries to his blog today: "Coming Home," an essay about the psychological challenge for soldiers to "turn off the killer switch" as they prepare to return to their families in the US -- and a photo essay, excerpted here.

"These families of a rural neighborhood called Albo Eatha, south of Baghdad, were awakened at dawn by the 82nd Airborne's Alpha Company, 2nd Platoon, so their houses could be searched and their cooperation requested in stopping insurgent activities. Despite the early hour, the woman and children seemed cheerful. The imposition became an opportunity for them to socialize -- while helicopters and jet fighters flew overhead."

Links: Photos: Women and Children of Albo Eatha, and Coming Home Essay. Discussion forum here.

New Kevin Sites dispatch from Iraq:
Dirty for Dirty

New Kevin Sites dispatch from Iraq:
Dirty for Dirty 06/01/2004 02:09 PM
NBC combat correspondent and weblogger Kevin Sites is in Iraq today. He's just posted a new entry on his blog -- a series of interviews with American soldiers.

[O]nce they finally do get home--they will still be faced with the complex task of finding their way in a civilian society again. And while they're eager to leave their weapons and Kevlar behind, the violence they've experienced here will likely be with them in one way or another, always.

Derek Ellyson says his memories have already hardened, fixed in his mind. "You never forget the faces. I can describe to you every dead person I've seen out here. What their faces looked like, the position they were laying in." Sorokin agrees, "War brings a lot of ugly things, you see a lot of ugly things you see other people dead and sometimes when you see somebody dead you see the face of death--the way the guy died. It could be an enemy it could be an ally it doesn't matter."

Yet living with those images of death is part of the job--the same one that requires them to pull the trigger. Before going to war soldiers have always had to ask themselves if they'd be willing to die for their cause. But there is a second part to that question which for some, is more difficult to answer: would they kill for it? For most if not all in the 3rd Platoon--the question is already moot.

Link, Discuss

CNN's Jordan accused of blaming US
military of murder in Iraq

CNN's Jordan accused of blaming US
military of murder in Iraq 02/05/2005 09:29 PM

Rony Abovitz blogged that Eason Jordan of CNN accused the U.S. military of murdering journalists in Iraq during a panel at Davos. The official summary does not reflect these comments. Rebecca MacKinnon, former CNN journalist who worked for Jordon corroborates the assertion by Abovitz. Little Green Football is tracking this in detail.

UPDATE: A MUST READ update from Rony Abovitz.

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Live On the Web: Kevin Mitnick

Live On the Web: Kevin Mitnick 01/22/2003 12:33 PM
Mitnick then visited a series of sites -– the Screen Savers, Slashdot, Google News, Wired News and The Register, among others –- mostly to see what others ...

Kevin Sites dispatch from Tikrit:
"You're Either With Us..."

Kevin Sites dispatch from Tikrit:
"You're Either With Us..." 11/18/2003 02:03 PM
NBC combat correspondent Kevin Sites has just posted a new update to his blog, live from Tikrit. Excerpt:

So in some ways, embedded in this unit, I begin to feel I've betrayed the people that depend on me to be skeptical; to question the dominant powers and institutions of my nation and the actions it undertakes in the name of its citizens. I am not a military or American cheerleader, not a mouthpiece signed on some institutional agenda whether I believe in it or not. I am here to ask the hard questions of the people who make the hardest decisions; ones that result in people dying or people being killed. I must remember as one journalist advised, "write in your notepad every day 'I am not one of them.'"

But in this room, where every piece of information is broken down quantitatively--number of patrols, number of raids, number of IEDs (improvised explosive devices), number of detainees, number of weapons -- and put back together in the form of a task completed or a mission to be accomplished, Operation Thunder Road, Operation Ivy Cyclone, the problems and solutions seem remarkably clear an seductively simple. (...)

Image above: Al Auja is the birthplace of Saddam Hussein. The community here was very pampered during his rule. But now U.S. forces feels it's a nest of former regime loyalists and anti coalition fighters. It's wrapped the entire town in triple layered razor wire. Male residents must register and carry ID cards. There is only one checkpoint that all four-thousand residents must enter and leave through. This man was already cleared to exit, but spun his wheels in anger on the way out. A U.S. soldier had a bead on him with his M-16 before he stopped his car. The second search was bit more invasive.

Link to esssay, Link to photos

Kevin Sites bl0gging from Thailand

Kevin Sites bl0gging from Thailand 12/29/2004 08:31 PM
Xeni Jardin: Blogger and NBC combat correspondent Kevin Sites was in Southeast Asia on a break from reporting duties when the tsunami disaster took place. He's now in Thailand, reporting -- and back on the blog again, dispatching photos and first-person accounts. Snip:

One-hundred and fifty-nine pine coffins have been stacked in the garage -- many of them big enough to hold refrigerators -- built to accommodate the now bloated and rapidly decomposing bodies inside.

Thai soldiers, wearing surgical masks, race against time to arrest the process -- before the bodies become impossible to identify.

In a well-choreographed drill -- they use hammers to smash square blocks of dry ice, carrying the shards on sheets of plastic and dumping them inside the coffins with the remains. They work at a very high tempo -- almost as if they were trying to rescue the living -- rather than preserve the dead.

On the sides of the coffins are photographs of the deceased as they were found, special attention paid to jewelry or tattoos, anything that can help in identifying who they once were.

The pictures are grisly -- bruised, blackened, bodies misshapen from the ferocious force of an angry ocean and all that travels with it. Old, young, small, large, South Africans, Australians, Canadians, English, Thais –- all victims of the earth's unrest on a day when she seemed to have precious little mercy.

Link.(Photo: Coffins bearing digital photographs of the deceased. image: Kevin Sites.)

Kevin Sites wins 2005 Payne Award for
Ethics in Journalism

Kevin Sites wins 2005 Payne Award for
Ethics in Journalism 04/13/2005 03:52 AM
Xeni Jardin: I'm very happy to blog the news that Kevin Sites, for whom I have endless respect and admiration, has been honored with a Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism. Bravo, and a huge congratulations, Kevin!

At a time when studies show the credibility of the media in steady decline and sensational stories make headline news, there are journalists and news organizations whose ethical decision-making processes set new standards for the keepers of the public trust. The 2005 Payne Awards for Ethics in Journalism will honor The Denver Post, freelance journalist Kevin Sites, and Arizona State’s independent student newspaper The State Press for exemplifying the highest standards of their profession in the face of political or economic pressures.(...)

Kevin Sites, a freelance photojournalist for NBC and military pool reporter, is the Payne Awards’ professional winner for his “courage, deliberate thinking and outreach” after filming a U.S. soldier killing an unarmed Iraqi man. Sites, an experienced war reporter, shared the videotape with the military, then worked with NBC to create a well-nuanced story that aired 48 hours after the incident. As was required, the footage was also given to others in his pool. When he became a lightning rod for those reacting to the story and for foreign journalists using the footage without context, he responded by using a web blog (www.kevinsites.net) to explain his decision and its reasoning to the public. The judges felt the blog and reactions to it added a new dimension to the story.

Winners will be honored in a ceremony on May 12 at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Link to award info, and Link to Kevin's blog.

Telesero Launches a Free Solution for
Web Based Live Chat and Web Visitor
Assistance called Live Link.

Telesero Launches a Free Solution for
Web Based Live Chat and Web Visitor
Assistance called Live Link. 08/28/2004 02:38 AM
Have you ever used Live Support on a Website, or wished you could. Telesero is now offering a Live Chat and Visitor Assistance product that could solve your problems for Free. No Downloads, No Hassles, No waiting, Just Answers. [PRWEB Aug 28, 2004]

Kevin Smith Launches New Filmmaker Web
Site

Kevin Smith Launches New Filmmaker Web
Site 08/22/2004 11:44 AM

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How often have you watched a movie and though, “Hey I could do that!” or “A trained monkey could do a better movie than this”. Well, now it is time to put your money where your mouth is, so to speak. Director Kevin Smith has launched a new Web site for up and coming movie makers to post their stuff….

24-7 INtouch Launches Expanded Line of
Live Online Support Services: Live Web
Chat, Web Push, Online Callback Request,
and Real time Email Response

24-7 INtouch Launches Expanded Line of
Live Online Support Services: Live Web
Chat, Web Push, Online Callback Request,
and Real time Email Response 08/30/2004 03:15 AM
24-7 INtouch, an award winning call center outsourcing company, is now offering clients online support services such as Live Web Chat, Web Push, Online Callback Request, and Real time Email Response. The company is partnering with InstantService to offer real-time, web based communication solutions to help our clients increase sales, lower costs, and raise customer service levels. [PRWEB Aug 30, 2004]

"www.kevinsites.net"

"www.kevinsites.net" 03/14/2003 02:16 PM

PC Magazine's 2004 Top 100 Sites You
Can't Live Without

PC Magazine's 2004 Top 100 Sites You
Can't Live Without 05/01/2004 07:31 AM
URLwire May 1 2004 12:25PM GMT

New CRM Blog Goes Live

New CRM Blog Goes Live 08/05/2004 03:40 AM
The new weblog from Cerado, "Closing the CRM Gap: Using IT to Get Closer to Customers" (http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/crm/gap/), offers unique insight into emerging technologies and capabilities in the areas of sales and marketing, enterprise social networking, and CRM systems that are changing the face of business and helping to bridge the gap between organizations and their customers. [PRWEB Aug 5, 2004]

Social Networking Sites: Can They Live
Up To The Hype? - February ...

Social Networking Sites: Can They Live
Up To The Hype? - February ... 02/19/2004 07:35 PM
Friendster, one of the original social networking sites, now finds itself in the company of mammoths such as Google (through its relation to Orkut) and Lycos ...

A Blog for Baseball Fans Builds a League
of Sites

A Blog for Baseball Fans Builds a League
of Sites 04/17/2005 09:50 PM
New York Times Apr 18 2005 2:00AM GMT

CNN's top 25 tech breakthroughs, minus 1

CNN's top 25 tech breakthroughs, minus 1 04/02/2005 10:38 PM
ZDNet Apr 3 2005 2:25AM GMT

Google Launches Official Google Blog,
Not Blog Search

Google Launches Official Google Blog,
Not Blog Search 05/11/2004 09:24 AM
Yahoo! May 11 2004 2:11PM GMT

Technorati Live 8 launches

Technorati Live 8 launches 06/24/2005 09:59 PM

We just launched the Technorati Live 8 site.

Technorati Live 8

Technorati has teamed up with Live 8 to bring you the latest conversations about the campaign to Make Poverty History. Read first hand accounts of the concerts and events, and get all the news and opinion from the blogosphere.

We've also put together some resources to help you find your way around Live 8 and the blog world:

What is Live 8? Which organisations are behind Live 8?

Are you new to blogging? Find out what it's all about.

Get a Live 8 badge for your blog.

Join in the conversation and find out how to make your posts show up on Technorati.

Do more than just blog - contact the G8 leaders.

The posts listed on the Technorati Live 8 site have been written by bloggers worldwide and appear in real time from Technorati's index of 1.1 million blogs. Find out more about Technorati.

Joe Trippi called us about two weeks ago with this idea. Thanks to a guest appearance of Suw Charman as the producer of the site and extra hard work by the Technorati team, we were able to get this site out in time.

This is such a good opportunity for nations like the United States and Japan to helped their damaged images and also show their solidarity to a cause that they shouldn't have to think twice about. I'm amazed at how poor the response of some of the developed nations has been to this call. Hopefully this concert and the voice of the blogs will help get their attention.

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Vodafone Live with 3G Launches

Vodafone Live with 3G Launches 05/04/2004 06:25 AM
3G May 4 2004 10:36AM GMT

CMP Launches Three New Content Sites

CMP Launches Three New Content Sites 12/18/2003 06:08 PM
Technology Marketing Dec 18 2003 4:53PM ET

PHP Freaks Launches Two New Sites!

PHP Freaks Launches Two New Sites! 01/01/2004 02:51 PM
PHP Freaks is proud to kick off the new year with two new sites to complete the Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) Network.

Vodafone KK launches Live 3G in Japan

Vodafone KK launches Live 3G in Japan 11/13/2003 05:23 PM
PMN Publications Nov 13 2003 4:46PM ET

RSSTop55 - Best Blog Directory And RSS
Submission Sites - Robin Good\\\'
Sharewood Tidings

RSSTop55 - Best Blog Directory And RSS
Submission Sites - Robin Good\\\'
Sharewood Tidings 02/10/2004 02:54 AM
http://www.masternewmedia.org/2004/02/05/rsstop55_best_blog_directory. htm As more and more people get involved with the Internet and as more Web sites, blogs, news services and other online resources continue to grow in number and variety it becomes increasingly important to maintain high visibility and exposure for the content being generated by closely following the major distribution media. HUGE list of links for submiting your RSS/Blog sites for traffic.

USATODAY.com - It's prime time for bl0gs
on CNN's 'Inside Politics'

USATODAY.com - It's prime time for bl0gs
on CNN's 'Inside Politics' 03/22/2005 09:59 PM
have a feature .. features

usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2005-03-20-media-mix_x .htm
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LookSmart Launches Vertical Consumer
Search Sites

LookSmart Launches Vertical Consumer
Search Sites 03/29/2005 08:09 PM
Search Engine Guide Mar 30 2005 12:43AM GMT

Gates Launches His Blog? NOT!

Gates Launches His Blog? NOT! 06/28/2004 11:35 AM
Microsoft Watch has heard from our sources that Bill Gates is soon to become Chief Blogging Architect. But this Web site is not Gates' foray into blogging.

DEMO bl0g launches

DEMO bl0g launches 02/15/2004 07:40 PM
hope to see some good content about this year's event on this TypePad-powered blog

Web Services Company HostWorks Adds
Clients, Launches Web Sites

Web Services Company HostWorks Adds
Clients, Launches Web Sites 09/11/2004 03:36 AM
Site Launches and new customers for Denver, Colorado-based Internet services provider HostWorks, Inc. [PRWEB Sep 11, 2004]

Time Magazine launches a bl0g

Time Magazine launches a bl0g 04/22/2004 10:44 AM
"Techno File" is a new big-media-blog authored by TIME Magazine writer Eric Roston, described as "a daily commentary on the technology that will carry us through tomorrow -- and the stuff that keeps us stuck in yesterday." Here it is, on TypePad. Link (Thanks, Jean-Luc )

AOL Launches Blog Service for Teens

AOL Launches Blog Service for Teens 03/29/2005 03:04 PM
AOL officially launched its RED Blogs service Tuesday, aimed at capturing some of the growing popularity of online Web logs by focusing on the teen segment. AOL members can create fully customizable journals, and either keep them completely private, open to only friends, or as a normal blog that anyone can view.
Grok Description matches for Live warblogging from Iraq: CNN's Kevin Sites launches blog at kevinsites.net
GrokA matches for Live warblogging from Iraq: CNN's Kevin Sites launches blog at kevinsites.net

Interesting discussion about the new
Iraq flag

Interesting discussion about the new
Iraq flag 05/03/2004 10:14 PM

Interesting discussion about the new Iraq flag over at Design Observer.

via Oli

Sony MDR-Q66LW Headphones With
Retracting Cords

Sony MDR-Q66LW Headphones With
Retracting Cords 07/03/2004 01:32 PM

New Sony over-the-ear headphones, the MDR-Q66LW series, will be available in Japan on the 10th for about $35. Besides the 6 colors, including house favorite pink, a simple button press will cause the neck cord to be found up entirely inside of the headphones, which makes not only for easy storage, but for adjustable cord length. That means the cords are cloth-insulated, love it or hate it, but you have to admit, it's a nice design.
Read - "Double wind-up" headphones from Sony [TechJapan]

"'Take one for the country' discretely
offers sex to Iraq-bound servicemen; can
it be true?"

"'Take one for the country' discretely
offers sex to Iraq-bound servicemen; can
it be true?" 04/29/2004 03:18 AM

"The View From Iraq is Getting Narrower
Just as Things Are Getting Worse."

"The View From Iraq is Getting Narrower
Just as Things Are Getting Worse." 05/21/2004 02:29 AM
The press is more and more confined to the green zone in Iraq. Having accepted certain dangers as part of the assignment, the correspondents face dangers that may destroy the assignment. A good time to look back at what John F. Burns said in his "there is corruption in our business" speech. This was moral literature for journalists. New arrivals should read it.

"The View From Iraq is Getting Narrower
Just as Things Are Getting Worse..."

"The View From Iraq is Getting Narrower
Just as Things Are Getting Worse..." 05/21/2004 10:01 AM
The press is more and more confined to the green zone in Iraq. Having accepted certain dangers as part of the assignment, the correspondents face dangers that may destroy the assignment. A good time to look back at what John F. Burns said in his "there is corruption in our business" speech. This was moral literature for journalists. And new arrivals should read it.

Telegraph | Opinion | All the good
things they never tell you about today's
Iraq

Telegraph | Opinion | All the good
things they never tell you about today's
Iraq 09/20/2004 02:59 AM

Telegraph | Opinion | All the good
things they never tell you about today's
Iraq

Telegraph | Opinion | All the good
things they never tell you about today's
Iraq 09/19/2004 11:42 AM
"In Sudan, the civilised world is (so far) doing everything to conform with the UN charter, which means waiting till everyone's been killed and then issuing a strong statement expressing grave concern." .. MARK STEYN DOES IT AGAIN:

telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/09/19/do 1902.xml
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Could be a Bombshell, Could be a Plant,
Could be Disinformation, Could be True.
Who Knows With This Gang of Liars:Claim:
U.S. Government Spurned Peace Talks
Before the War With Iraq 11/6

Could be a Bombshell, Could be a Plant,
Could be Disinformation, Could be True.
Who Knows With This Gang of Liars:Claim:
U.S. Government Spurned Peace Talks
Before the War With Iraq 11/6 11/07/2003 06:33 AM
ABCNEWS has learned .. reported .. more

abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/World/hage031105-1.html
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Fawaz Turki has no problem admitting he
was wrong to oppose the war in Iraq

Fawaz Turki has no problem admitting he
was wrong to oppose the war in Iraq 11/07/2003 06:33 AM
Yes, even the Arab News .. go read this

arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=34682&d=6&m=11&y=2003
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Iraq: The Bungled Transition, How bad
can things get? The Making of a Mess Far
graver than Vietnam

Iraq: The Bungled Transition, How bad
can things get? The Making of a Mess Far
graver than Vietnam 09/22/2004 12:37 AM
Iraq: The Bungled Transition. Iraq: How bad can things get?--The Making of a Mess. Far graver than Vietnam, some now see a Classic guerrilla war forming in Iraq with an Enemy With Many Faces. Iraqi Shiite philosopher--as Juan Cole calls him--and blogger Abbas Kadhim of Calling It Like It Is, likens the Allawi government to an onion farm--This lack of discipline within the Iraqi interim government is not accidental. Indeed, it is the manifestation of a bigger problem: the members of the cabinet consider themselves above the restraints of their respective positions in the government... After all, their nominal chief, Allawi did not choose them, like all prime ministers do to a certain degree. They were simply imposed upon him, and for all practical purposes, he is unable to dismiss any one of them. Iyad Allawi is stuck with a concoction of personalities that may compose a parliament rather than an executive branch.--and as US-backed armies firing blanks notes: Since the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Washington has been struggling to create a 40,000-strong military force... according to Brigadier General James Schwitters, who is part of the US command responsible for training Iraq's new army, only 3,000 of the soldiers could be regarded as having been militarily trained, as of early August. From March to 2003 to August 2004, the Coalition trained 3,00 Iraqi soldiers. Well? Feelin' lucky, punk? /Dirty Harry (More Inside)

DIY Marlboro Headphone Amp

DIY Marlboro Headphone Amp 04/01/2005 10:59 AM

MAKE refers us to the best use of a Marlboro pack since, well, its intended one. For under $30, you can build your very own amp, complete with input and headphone jacks, right into your old box of Pall Malls. The guide by Guillermito is very in depth and has some great pictures to get you on your way (it's the classic CMOY amp of DIY yore).

My Marlboro CMOY Amp [Guillermito via MAKE

In-ear Headphone Round-up

In-ear Headphone Round-up 06/24/2005 04:02 PM

Dear readers, we have been wrong. The older folk among us—baby-boomers, cracked former students of the Naval Arts, and other geriatrics—have been underrepresented in our coverage, as evidenced as our hate mail today. Well, old-timers, this one's for you:

The Ipod is out and it's as hot as Rita Hayworth. All those kids outside on your stoop are listening to them. Don't they have school? When we were young, we went to school. What better way to listen to your Ipod than with in-ear headphones. You'll have to remove your hearing aid to use them, but these sassy headphones are a sight better than those goofy big pants these kids are wearing now. Why, only yesterday, I saw one boy with his underwear hanging out of his pants. No respect, these kids. No respect. Don't they know we're at war? ExtremeTech—what kind of title of a magazine is that? Is that pornography?—does a full round-up of these society-destroying earphones. I'm going to go play my numbers now. Then my stories are on.

Upgra de your iPod: In-Ear Sound-Isolating Earphones [ExtremeTech]

Headphone Fetish photos

Headphone Fetish photos 08/18/2004 03:05 PM
More sexualized gadgetry. For some very special people, photos of chicks wearing headphones are personally exciting. This online photo gallery features obsessively-organized pictures of mostly clothed girls wearing headphones and construction headsets.Link (Thanks, danski)

Burton Headphone Beanie

Burton Headphone Beanie 09/24/2004 11:46 PM

< img src="http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/beanie300329.jpg" alt="ibeanie300329.jpg image" width="182" height="200" class="right border gas849 jfr453"/>Snowboard giant Burton's Fall collection includes this $40 "Headphone Beanie," available in three earth tone colors. I'm presuming it includes the headphones themselves, and are not just woven with places for any old headphones to be run. Then again, I'd prefer they didn't have the headphones inside, so you could choose your favorites. But then again again, $40 is a lot of money for a head sock.

I'm so confused. Hold me.

P roduct Page [Burton via CultOfMac]

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Gateway 2 Russia Apr 16 2004 6:26AM GMT

Saddam and al-Qaida: It's true because
it's true

Saddam and al-Qaida: It's true because
it's true 06/17/2004 05:57 PM

VIA Ac97 audio drivers 5.90b

VIA Ac97 audio drivers 5.90b 03/23/2005 01:31 PM

Journal of Webology: An International
Electronic Journal

Journal of Webology: An International
Electronic Journal 08/31/2004 06:26 AM
Journal of Webology: An International Electronic Journal
http://www.webology.itgo.com/

Webology is a scholarly journal in English devoted to the various fields of Library and Information Science and serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. It serves as a forum for new research in information dissemination and communication processes in general, and in the context of the World Wide Web in particular. Concerns include the production, gathering, recording, processing, storing, representing, sharing, transmitting, retrieving, distribution, and dissemination of information, as well as its social and cultural impacts. There is a strong emphasis on new information technologies and methodologies. The orientation is toward quantitative experimental work, but significant qualitative and historical research is also welcome.

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.68

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.68 12/30/2004 10:01 AM

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.71

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.71 04/13/2005 11:47 AM

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.63

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.63 09/08/2004 10:44 AM

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.56

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.56 03/08/2004 11:06 PM

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.60

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.60 06/29/2004 06:44 PM

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.631

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.631 09/20/2004 04:30 PM

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.59

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.59 05/21/2004 05:25 PM

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.62

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.62 08/06/2004 04:42 PM

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.67

New Realtek ALC AC97 Audio Driver v3.67 12/19/2004 03:00 PM

When Things On Your Mac Do Cool Things
You Didn't Expect Them To... Or
Adventures In Mac-Based Audio

When Things On Your Mac Do Cool Things
You Didn't Expect Them To... Or
Adventures In Mac-Based Audio 01/03/2004 12:11 AM
If you play an instrument, write songs, sing, or wish you could do any or all of the above, take a look at DigiDesign's amazing little Mbox, a complete audio production system with many uses. By Bob LeVitus (Mac Observer via MyAppleMenu)

Some iPod Mini Users Report Headphone
Problems

Some iPod Mini Users Report Headphone
Problems 04/12/2004 11:26 PM
Boston Globe Apr 13 2004 3:43AM GMT

Bluetake BT420 EX Bluetooth Hi-Fi Sports
Headphone Review

Bluetake BT420 EX Bluetooth Hi-Fi Sports
Headphone Review 07/06/2004 03:10 PM

Live warblogging from Iraq: CNN's Kevin Sites launches blog at kevinsites.net