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Blog Buzz: Iran, Political Humor, and Obama's Fundraising

The Guardian reported that the United States is making plans to open a diplomatic interests section in Iran. Conservative bloggers are shocked by the announcement, considering that Iran remains a supporter of international terrorism and has not suspended its uranium enrichment program. One liberal blogger is skeptical about the credibility of the report.

Blog Buzz: John McCain's Ads and Barack Obama's Audacity

So, is the McCain campaign backing down on its false ad about Obama wanting to bring the media to the troops? (Conservative answer: Even if the specifics are off, Obama was still wrong.) Regardless, he's got a new ad up trying to portray Obama as a political version of Britney or Paris (oh, how the McCainiacs wish there was Berlin Hilton or Berliny Spears). So, is the McCain campaign trying to paint Obama as "uppity"? Or are they just going Harold Ford on him? Libs say the ad simply makes Big McC look either ridiculous or like C. McC-gomery Burns. Conservatives disagree, of course. The important point, one conservative argues, is that they're closing the Obama money gap by getting the media to run their commercials over and over and over.

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Blog Buzz: Barack Obama's Mortgage Rorschach, John McCain's Shakeup, and Flip-Flops

Depending (mostly) on your political bent, today's Washington Post story about Barack Obama's home loan is evidence of media schizophrenia, media incompetence, an Obama real estate scandal, or an Obama non scandal.

Blog Buzz: McCain Attacks Obama With the Troops, and Vice Presidential Speculation Grows Odder

John McCain's campaign is running a new ad accusing Barack Obama of blowing off a visit to wounded troops to go shoot some hoop. The ad is false, so why isn't the press saying so? And is the Obama campaign scared of going after McCain? And Is Obama McCain's piñata? But does the Mc-flailing make sense? McCain wasn't always in favor of using the military to score political points. Oh, and by the way: The ad is being run for insiders. (Don't worry, voters, we'll endlessly repeat the message, so you don't have to actually see the ad.)

Blog Buzz: The Great McCain-Obama-Hilton-Spears Race Debate of '08

The kafuffle over McCain's Britney/Paris/Barack (Buzz certainly never thought we'd write that combo) continues, with debate about whether or not Team McCain is Harold Ford-ing Obama. (To Harold Ford: To feature attractive, available white women in an ad against a black politician in an effort to play on racist fears of interracial mating.) Or maybe it's not racist, just sexist? Or maybe McCain needs his own celebrity comparisons (Naomi Campbell, Amy Winehouse)? And then there's the debate about whether Team Obama is itself playing the race card against McCain. Oh, and: The McCain-supporting wing of the Hilton family isn't wild about the ad. Certainly the oddest take on the Brit-Obama McCain ad comes from Joe "Relax and Enjoy It" Lieberman. Or maybe not, as Hot Air's Allahpundit points out, there's this gem of Oliver Stone-ry.

Artists Abroad For Obama

Even though they can't cast votes in November, artists around the globe are cranking out tunes in homage to the Democratic presidential candidate. Latin-Grammy-nominated Don Omar transformed Obama's surname into the upbeat Reggaeton song, "Como Se Dice," and collaborated with the Cuban band Yerba Buena and over a dozen other Latin stars on "Podemos Con Obama" ("We Can With Obama"). Jamaican crooners are particularly starry-eyed for the politician, with Tyrical's "The Obama Song," Cocoa Tea's "Barack Obama" and Mavado's "We Need Barack" (which mixes Obama's speeches with reggae beats). Grenada-born Calypso singer Mighty Sparrow is working on an entire album of Obama songs, following his hit "Barack the Magnificent."

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Blog Buzz: Special Unity Edition

Political Intelligence's Foon Rhee notes that after months of acrimony, it's a virtual lovefest among the Democrats, culminating in today's rally in Unity, N.H. But John Nichols on the Natio n's Campaign '08 thinks the notion that Obama and Clinton were in a battle to death was always a theatrical rather than a realistic one. Meanwhile, Mark Halperin on Time's The Page calls Obama and Clinton "perfect together." TNR's Michael Crowley also approves, while other TNR entries take a lighter view. Even committed Hillary-ite Taylor Marsh says it went as well as could be expected (his tie matched her pantsuit). Meanwhile, NRO's Kathryn Jean Lopez sheds some crocodile tears before (Buzz assumes) cracking wise about the missing Clinton.

Blog Buzz: Georgia, Penn, and Obama the Pork Artist

Liberals worry that John McCain is beating the drama drums (stupidly), and is doing so with the help of an adviser, Randy Scheuenemann, whose past experience with Georgia is not helpful. Matthew Yglesias argues that the fact that Russia is not actually re-creating the Soviet Union is a knock against people who suggested that it was Nazi Germany. Conservatives argue that Obama should start beating something—drums, whatever—rather than sitting quietly like...Bush. (Both McCain and Obama, by the way, favor NATO membership for Georgia.) And it turns out that the U.S. government had a sense of what was coming, just not its magnitude (maybe we shouldn't just go with implicit understandings with the Russians, eh?). Hot Air's Allahpundit sees a reach for Reagan in McCain's stance.

The Politics of Space: Obama Wants to Increase NASA Funding

Over the weekend, Democratic senator Barack Obama made a public statement during his presidential campaign trail in Titusville, Florida. Whilst responding to a question about oceanic research, Obama elaborated on his plans for the future of NASA. Previously, there have been hints that a possible Obama Presidency would see a reduction in space funding in favour of a boost in education spending. However, Saturday's statement was followed by some detailed text on Obama's campaign blog outlining his priorities for the US dominance in space, the possibility of extending the Shuttle's operations and speeding up development of the Constellation program…

Breaking Down Blog Spam Malware

Jesper Johansson, co-author of Windows Vista Security: Securing Vista Against Malicious Attacks, recently wrote an article in The Register which dissects a new type of threat. Anyone with a blog has probably seen blog spam- comments made on blog posts which have little or nothing to do with the actual blog post, but contain links to spam-related web sites. I have spam filters in place, so I rarely even see the blog spam posts. They are an annoyance, and I simply delete them in periodic batches. However, Jesper did stop to look at the spam and noticed that a new breed was becoming prevalent. The new breed, rather than just leading to some annoying spam site, are actually malware attacks. For a complete breakdown of the threat, and Jesper's dissection and analysis, check out Anatomy of a Malware Scam.

Buzz Technologies Inc (OTC:BZTG): Buzz Leading the Internet for Online Privacy

Buzz (OTC:BZTG) Web Division www.12buzz.com remains one of the few Search and Ad Platforms not employing behavioral targeting technology. Although widely available Buzz sees the technology as an abuse of the trust of customers. Buzz also feels the Asian market will be the first to reject such practices and are likely to turn to www.12buzz.com so they can maintain their privacy. While Many Internet and broadband companies have acknowledged using targeted-advertising technology without explicitly informing customers, according to letters released yesterday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Blog Buzz: Afghanistan, Oil, and Immigration

Both Barack Obama and John McCain are popping up all over the blogs because of their plans for Afghanistan. In Obama's Monday op-ed in the New York Times, he said that his top priority after ending the war in Iraq would be to increase the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan to fight al Qaeda and the Taliban. Some liberal bloggers approve; others are unconvinced that his strategy is plausible, while others are simply stumped. Conservative bloggers agree on the importance of finishing work in Afghanistan but are very critical of Obama's "incoherent" op-ed and "hollow rhetoric". McCain has also called for a surge in troops in Afghanistan.

Kansas Nerd Uses Net To Shake Up Political Fundraising

ghostlibrary sends a note about Sean Tevis, an information architect in Kansas, who is running for state representative with the help of an xkcd lookalike cartoon and grassroots Net-based fundraising. Tevis had garnered more than 6,000 contributions, most of them small, from around the country, far out-fundraising his opponent. Major news outlets have picked up the story as a harbinger of 21st-century Net-based political campaigning. Reader ghostlibrary adds, "As a bonus, Tevis cites xkcd intentionally (rather than just ripping it off without crediting it) and, well, it's actually funny."

Obama's surveillance votespurs blogging backlash

Washington - Sen. Barack Obama's vote for a federal surveillance law that he had previously opposed has sparked a backlash from his online advocates, who had energized his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. In October, Obama had vowed to help filibuster an update of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) (Snip) Gov. Bill Richardson, a former Democratic presidential candidate and an Obama supporter, said Friday that the improvements to the bill allowed Obama to change his position.

Buzz Trivializes PS3 Home

"The astonishingly popular PS2 and PS3 quiz show game, Buzz!, will have a room in the upcoming Home interface on the PS3. According to a blog by one of the designers of the Buzz! Home space (which he calls the Buzz: Road Show), players will be able to stand on various colored lights to submit their answers, and up to 64 people will be able to play at a time."

Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Trident Microsystems, Inc., Sony, American Axle &...

Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Trident Microsystems, Inc., Sony, American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc., D.R. Horton, Inc. and Cache, Inc. www.profits.zacks.com/ CHICAGO--(Business Wire)-- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Trident Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRID), Sony (NYSE: SNE), American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc (NYSE: AXL), D.R. Horton, Inc. (NYSE: DHI) and Cache, Inc. (NASDAQ: CACH). Get the most recent insight from Zacks Equity Research with the free Profit from the Pros newsletter: at.zacks.com/?id=4579 Here are highlights from Wednesday's Analyst Blog: Trident Micro Pressured in Asia Trident Microsystems, Inc.

Gigaomni Media Acq-hires Mobile Tech Blog jkOnTheRun

Gigaomni Media, the blog media network founded by Om Malik, has done its first acq-hire: it has bought a mobile technology blog called jkOnTheRun, a blog about mobile gadgets, including mobile phones and cloud client computers. The two writers/founder will stay on board, and this will be the sixth blog in the GigaOm Network. The company also hinted that it will on the look out for more such blogs/sites that fits into its area of tech coverage. It has funding from True Ventures and some angels.

Blogged.com Adds Blog Article Search and Improves Recommendations

There are a number of blog search tools out there, and some have become controversial for their human-powered curator process and simplistic style. But such an approach has its merits when you look at the broad appeal of blog recommendations and curated suggestions. There are those end users that would like to be able to find blog content that’s not technology related, and doesn’t come from self-promotional platforms that are often found on some memes and other blog search engines.

Cambridge Broadband Networks launches €Backhaul Blog€™

Cambridge Broadband Networks launches ‘Backhaul Blog’ - Cambridge Broadband Networks launches ‘Backhaul Blog’ to spur debate across telecoms industry. Creates forum to discuss issues and opportunities around all forms of backhaul. Cambridge UK, 2 July 2008: Backhaul is one of the biggest issues facing mobile operators today and according to ABI Research already accounts for 30 percent of their operating expenditure with an annual cost of $20 billion. In response, Cambridge Broadband Networks, the developer of carrier-class transmission equipment for cellular backhaul, has today launched a blog to foster discussion around the issues. Known as ‘the backhaul blog’, the forum is aimed at a wide cross-section of industry professionals, including mobile operators, analysts and journalists, and will carry thought-provoking comment fr

Surveillance Protest Group Tops Obama Website

A grassroots group of activists has been organizing on MyBo, Obama's official social networking portal, to protest the Senator's recent decision to back controversial legislation granting the President more spying powers. The effort hit a big milestone on Tuesday afternoon: It is now the largest self-organized group on Obama's website, topping networks that were launched over a year ago. The spying protest, "Senator Obama - Please Vote NO on Telecom Immunity – Get FISA Right," launched last week. (See Obama Network Organizes and Revolts Over Spying, The Nation.)

Travel Guru Arthur Frommer Posts 1000th Blog Entry

Travel authority Arthur Frommer has posted his 1000th blog entry on Frommers.com. Mirroring his classic best-selling "Europe on $5 a Day," Frommer's first blog post on May 8, 2007 was titled "Europe and the sinking dollar: what do we do now?" Since then, Frommer has posted 1,000 short, often humorous, takes on the latest travel trends and advice on affordable travel. Spanning topics from sea-sickness remedies (ginger) to the most gay-friendly vacation spot (Bermuda), Frommer's blog is read religiously by thousands of travel enthusiasts each month. Frommer also utilizes his blog to solicit contributions from readers to create an interactive forum for fellow travelers, posing such questions as: Do Power Bars join peanut butter as essential "don't leave home without them" items?

SCORE Starts Womens Success Blog

Washington, D.C. (July 11, 2008) - SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business� announces the new “SCORE Women’s Success Blog� at the SCORE Web site, www.score.org. Four women SCORE leaders offer their insights, advice and fresh takes on issues facing women entrepreneurs across America. This is the first blog from SCORE at the national level. Comments and questions from blog visitors are welcome. The blog Web site address is http://womensblog.score.org.

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