Effective Security...Or Security Theater?
One of the most popoular blog posts for the past few days has been security expert Bruce Schneier's examination of last week's crackdown on liquids on airplanes. Author of today's 7th-most-cited blog, he writes: "None of the airplane security measures implemented because of 9/11 -- no-fly lists, secondary screening, prohibitions against pocket knives and corkscrews -- had anything to do with last week's arrests. And they wouldn't have prevented the planned attacks, had the terrorists not been arrested. A national ID card wouldn't have made a difference, either. Instead, the arrests are a victory for old-fashioned intelligence and investigation." Discuss (and bloggers are).
Michael J. Totten, in the middle of things again
World traveler Michael J. Totten is live-blogging again from the Middle East (today's No. 7 most-cited link), where kidnapped Fox News correspondent Steve Cetanni (today's' burstiest person) and cameraman Olaf Wiig (eighth-burstiest) have been kidnapped.
A new blogging tool
Today's most-used phrase is a reference to yesterday's releaase by Microsoft of a test version of Windows Live Writer, software that allows bloggers to use a single application to publish to a variety of blog platforms, including Spaces, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress and others. Bloggers are already testing it out.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at August 15, 2006 10:33 AM
