Posts Tagged with ‘popular’

It’s hard out there for…a Saudi Arabian blogger.
The headlines on Technorati are many today. It’s now been made officially clear by the Saudi Interior Ministry that a widely-regarded Arabian noisemaker, Fouah al-Farhan, was recently “taken in” for questioning “about specific violations of non-security laws.”
Mr al-Farhan covers, among other items, the subject of social issues in his blog. Yes, quite a basic and broad template upon which to write one’s thoughts. Plenty of fine lines to walk in that area [...]

If you?ve been following developments inside the Pennsylvania state legislature in the past, say, 5 years or so, you?ll know that quite a few lawmakers tend to go against the grain of conventional wisdom.
If you recall the absurdity that resulted in the Intelligent Design debacle, in which some in the state seriously contemplated a shift in elementary school curriculum to allow for some measure of non-scientific ?study? in science classes, you?ll know that at least a few higher-ups in the [...]

We’re all aware of how unthinkably popular MySpace is. If it could spank its competition, it would – and it would do so in strides. Or would it? Just because MySpace has allegedly topped 60 million registered users (Clearly some of those must be dupes.) doesn’t mean they’ve gone and done a Microsoft and eaten over 90% of the market. So this leads some to wonder: Who is the runner up, and how formidable is this silver medalist? I think we’ve [...]

We’ve all done it. We’ve all voted up a link into the thousands. We’ve given our thumbs up to some struggling stories that never quite had that special something to make the front page. It’s heartbreaking, but we did it. We do it. Well, maybe not heartbreaking, but there’s bound to be a few among the millions of visitors who’ve lost a tear or two over an unjustly buried submission. Who’s we? Diggers. And we love playing the role, more [...]