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Yahoo! News - Bloggers become weapon in US presidential election: "WASHINGTON (AFP) - The 2004 presidential campaign has marked the coming of age for Internet 'blog' journals as a cutting edge political tool for raising cash and revving up political support.

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Blogs, short for web logs, are online diaries, sometimes by fiercely-partisan writers, that are being lapped up by the Internet masses.
The journals took off in the mid-1990s and there are now estimated to be hundreds of thousands on every subject in cyberspace.
Bloggers -- the writers of the journals -- have become a vital source of information and commentary, and an alternative to traditional newspapers and television.
'It's a terrible word for an exciting new form of communication,' said Howard Finberg, an expert on interactive media at the Poynter Institute, a Florida journalism thinktank. "

For VCs, Success Is Staying Awake:
Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital and Eric Schmidt of Google were asked about the relationship between 'The Venture Capitalist and the CEO' at the Silicon Valley 4.0 conference by moderator Guy Kawasaki, managing director of Garage Technology Ventures. In this segment, they discuss how Sequoia's investment in Yahoo led to Google, and the evolutionary method of technology investing.
Kawasaki: When we originally came up with the idea for having CEOs and venture capitalists, we wanted to do it in the newly-wed format, with three CEOs and then we'd ask them a question like 'Who's the most valuable board member?' And then we would bring back the VC and ask them the same question and compare the answers. But we couldn't get any CEOs or VCs to agree to this format. So we focused on Sequoia and Google as the most visible possible combination. First, could both of you just introduce your backgrounds?

Moritz: I'm a partner with Sequoia Capital, and we've just been investing up and down the Peninsula for the last 25 years, just trying to invest in people coming off of the Stanford campus. We decided that actually it's a fairly good business proposition, to be prepared to pay those excessive parking fines that you always get when you visit the Stanford campus, in exchange for purchasing Series A shares in a company of a kind that comes off the Stanford campus. So that's our business practice.

Schmidt: I'm a scientist who's classically trained in Unix but nobody uses Unix anymore, they use Linux. So I became a businessman.

Kawasaki: That's your background? Can't you talk about Sun or Novell?

Schmidt: Well, I'm a businessman now,"

IZ: Schmidt finally got to his senses and gave up the chief Scientist job at Sun for a Google CEO

International Herald Tribune: "Russians see careful planning in terror siege
Investigators now suspect the attackers had secreted a cache of weapons or other equipment in the school weeks before the attack.

It appears that the terror envelop is being pushed once again. Even the almighty Russians are nothig but paper tiger....

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