Popular Web Tools, Not-So-Popular Nominees
John Bolton, the man nominated to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, breaks into the top five blogged-about personalities, no doubt because senators sent his name to the full senate for a vote but shied away from endorsing him on Thursday.
Another Bush appointtee, Dr. David Hager, (today's burstiest person), member of an FDA women's reproductive health advisory committee, is again in the news for claiming he wrote the minority memo that kept the agency from approving over-the-counter emergency contraception. (Hager's long been a subject of e-mail petitions because of his extremely conservative views about women).
Lotsa Web tools
Topping the list of today's links is the BBC's recently announced the test version of BackStage, a developer network that allows users to build their own news content. (BlogPulse is happy because it's offered as one of the built-in tracking features for the project).
Bloggers are also sharing the release of Mozilla 1.0.4, the Pew Typology Test for determing red or blue status, and Funny Fox promotional videos touting officer users' reactions to Firefox. Google and Dodgeball.com, menawhile, have teamed up for online networking/meet-ups.
Unanswered questions
Comedian Dave Chappelle is a topic of speculation for news-based rumors that he is seeking mental health treatment. (Could be true.....or is this a Comedy Central-staged scam?)
And how many folks next Thursday will call in sick with a case of "sith-itis"?
Posted by Sue MacDonald at May 13, 2005 07:39 AM
