More Technie News, and a Squeaker Vote on Alaska Oil Drilling

Yahoo! and Apple users seem pretty excited this week.

Yahoo! has announced Yahoo! 360 a single source for social networking that allows users to create a blog, send text/photos froma mobile phone, post phots, recommend favorite stuff and post reviews. It's today's No. 8 link in BlogPulse.

And Apple users are hearing rumors of an updated Airport and (egad!) two-button mouse, according to AppleInsider, today's No. 4 link.

And it's no surprise to newsmakers that conservative Bush advisor Paul Wolfowitz jumped 38 spots among Key People overnight and placed tops on Bursty People list, now that he's been nominated by President George Bush to head the World Bank. Convicted murderer Scott Peterson also made jumped in people-related blog rankings based on his death-penalty sentence Wednesday for murdering his pregnant wife, Laci.

Normally, I don't spout off much on topics, but it galls me that the Senate on Wednesday snuck through on the budget bill an amendment that allows oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (read those words again...."oil drilling" and "wildlife refuge" and scratch your head) in Alaska. But I'm spouting off. Why?

My husband, in the 1970s-early 80s, flew nearly every inch of the ANWAR area by helicopter during the heyday of the construction of the Alaska oil pipeline to Barrow. He air-ferried geologists who were looking for geologic formations that would indicate the presence of oil. And guess what? They found none, which is what today's critics predict. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Which leads me to believe this current "exercise" in oil drilling is more for the tax credits that a certain Texas president's buddies stand to earn than any actual solution to domestic energy production and conservation. Besides, I've been to Alaska. It can't be described (not enough superlatives), and it's too awesome for photographs (no camera lens can do it justice). Some places should not be fouled up by humans, and that's one. Off my soapbox now.

And here's an interesting question being discussed in the blogosphere. Are bloggers too un-diverse? Too much of a white guy's club to be representative?

BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: How do you like your job? Hmmm....