Blogs and News

We are witnessing the close of a decade when blogs might begin to mirror meaningless news and when meaningful news might begin to appear as blogs, like these Reuters Alternet Blogs.

Note that Sun Microsystems Inc. powers Reuters Alternet for the Reuters Foundation.

With its independent board, Reuters remains as one the most independent news organizations in the world.

Joost

In his MetaMedia blog, Thomas Crampton gives a nod to Joost, and the folks behind it, who also brought Kazaa and Skype to the Internet users.

By the way, did you know that Skype uses PostgreSQL as its system DB?

Debt Blogs

Bloggers give financial advice and blog about their debt, reports IHT. Here are some examples:
bloggingawaydebt.com, "Poorer Than You" (kgazette.blogspot.com), saveleighann.blogspot.com.

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