NVDL Rising on Technorati

Technorati places this blog in the Top 10 of South Africa's news and politics blogs. Technorati refers to my Mountain Madness coverage, something I studied and wrote a magazine article on, and also corresponded with The Climb writer DeWalt (who called my assessment the clearest he has seen anywhere). There is also reference to a recent post on Scheduled Post Publishing (on blogger) which is a valuable and I think underutlised tool for those who may not blog at work or during working hours. I'm very happy to see that Technorati also rates my blog for MEDIA WRONG ON MUGABE. This validates for me that this blog is able to quickly and powerfully communicate what the Media often fails to do.

Blogs are increasingly fulfilling a role that others are failing to perform: provide insight, rational commentary and make succinct and helpful predictions in economics and politics when even experts seem incapable of seeing the forest for all their 'belief-driven' focus on individual trees.

Making The Internet More Intelligent

I see that Google is leading the commercialisation of libraries. They will be scanning millions of books (@ $10-$20 per book)in order to be able to offer access to a richer (inter)network of information.

A Blog, which is short for Web Log, is another form of publishing going digital on a micro-scale. Making digital libraries will have interesting effects on the publishing industry in general, and on book publishing in particular.
I wonder whether fiction writers of the future will be submitting internet addresses to agents, or editors working for the Publishing Divisions of Software Giants like Google, as opposed to the sending of manuscripts that need to be printed and sent and returned to the addressee.

Google has raised over $1.3 billion in their recent IPO, which is a heck of a lot for a company based on some nifty mathematical formulas in something as simple, in theory, as a search engine. Who would have thought that designing a really good search engine would be worth billions?

Another company doing well is Mozilla Firefox, which is a free web browser. Since November when it was made available, Mozilla has been downloaded more than 10 million times. This is because Internet Explorer has been found to have dozens of serious vulnerabilities.

I use Firefox to avoid the malicious content that streams undetected through IE. Virusses also find their way into a computer simply by hijacking some of IE processes.

Firefox can be downloaded here: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/