Ky. Governor Unblocks Blogs

Kentucky's newly elected Democratic Governor Steve Beshear lifted a ban set in place by former Governor Ernie Fletcher that barred state employees from accessing blogs on state computers. Fletcher's move was a controversial one that led to national press coverage of allegations that he was trying to silence critics, and a federal lawsuit filed by a Kentucky gadfly blogger.

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Online Video Rarely Makes It To The TV

Videos can lose a lot when they're presented on a small screen.  Try to picture the stunning landscapes in "The Lord of the Rings," or the gargantuan creature in "The Mist," on a 17-inch computer monitor, for example.  But that apparently continues to be the way most people watch online content.

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Google Announces AJAX Language API

Individuals looking to interact with different languages should have an easier time of things thanks to the new Google AJAX Language API.  The API offers both detection and translation abilities.

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Google’s New Benchmarking Tool

Google’s new benchmarking section is live now in Google Analytics. If you opted in to the servive, you will find it in your site stats navigation at Visitors -> Benchmarking. You will then see a number of charts from sites of comparable traffic, so that you can find out if e.g. your visitors stay longer […]

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Dupre Was Just 17 In Girls Gone Wild Videos

Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis can probably recruit Kip Winger to croon his off-to-jail-again theme song. Kip's likely available these days. After just finishing a jail sentence for distributing content featuring under age girls, Francis' widely-publicized revelation that Eliot Spitzer's call girl, Ashley Dupre, was caught on seven tapes in Miami might cause him some more statutory troubles.

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