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Between the Lines Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Social networks: The new pulse of the Internet Posted in: General Web Technology Social networking I ran across a post from Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge noting that Akamai's content delivery network is handling 1 million rich media requests per second from social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. Much of the traffic comes from applications maker such as Slide and RockYou with tens of millions of users. ComScore released its November 2007 numbers for widget consumption as another indicator that the widgets are becoming like blood flowing through arteries of the Internet. In fact, content is becoming more modularized and distributable, and the lines between applications and objects are blurring.
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We learned later that Landry had been paralyzed from the neck down. The rest of the season was a downward spiral of the disinterested play of a team that had lost its heart. * * * Some dreams are broken before they are born. Such was the case of Jimmy Rollins. Jimmy was a friend of mine in the Childrens Home. Jimmy hated football and basketball because we never let him play in our pick-up games. He complained and cried and moaned and whined but we never allowed him to play. Not once. We werent being cruel; we were being careful. Jimmy wore a metal brace on his right leg. It started at his knee and was connected to springs and a metal pad under his big orthopedic boot. His right leg was, in essence, a pogo stick. That leg was about 4 inches shorter than his left leg. We assumed Jimmy knew how far to push his appliance.
the has-been
Reagan, he says, made Republicans "the party that would change government, not sustain it." Gingrich offered "a detailed list of congressional and governmental reforms that took power away from the smoke-filled rooms and returned it to the people." And what has Bush done to make Republicans the party of reform? Mehlman's answer: "President George W. Bush reorganized our entire security system, creating the Department of Homeland Security." No wonder Republicans feel like killing themselves. The only hope their own chairman can give them that they're not the party of government is that Bush created the largest, costliest new federal bureaucracy in American history. When the GOP's cheerleader thinks a bloated bureaucratic nightmare with 170,000 employees is a shining example of "limited government" and "our Party at its best," even Republicans seem to be saying sayonara to conservatism.
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