Strange Bedfellows?
Interestingly, George Bush and Lucio Guitierrez, the leftist, newly-elected Ecuadorian president, appear to be buddies. In the Bush Administration’s new budget plan, Ecuador would get $15 million in military assistance, which is 15 times more than the year before.
The Page is Now Powered by Google. Sort Of.
Google has just purchased Pyra Labs, a company that makes free software used to publish Weblogs. I use one of Pyra’s products to maintain this page.
The deal is a major moment in the world of Weblogs (or blogs), which are online journals, like this one, that are arranged in reverse chronological order and often link to other Web sites. Not only has blogging been recognized by one of the most powerful Internet companies, but it’ll be interesting to see how Google incorporates blogs into their site (will “Blog Search” be a new tab atop their main page?). And Nick Denton wonders whether Weblog links will be used to improve the promising GoogleNews.