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Politician won't apologize for 'Obama tags' remark

Idaho Republican Rex Rammell said Tuesday the hoopla over his remarks about hunting President Barack Obama has been a boon to his campaign, and he again refused to apologize for what he called a joke.

Photobucket Advances Tagging Concept

The media-sharing site Photobucket is introducing a search mechanism that lets users append labels to specific faces and objects in photos.

'Molecular computers' act as tiny ID tags

Molecules capable of basic logic operations have been developed that could serve as tiny ID tags for identifying individual cells or nano-devices. The technique, called molecular computational identification (MCID), could produce tens of millions of unique tags.

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Graffiti gangs chant: Knit one, purl two - thestar.com
Source: Toronto Star

Bringing various forms of art to public spaces has always had its share of detractors and supporters. No expressive medium, individually or combined, is exempt from varying degrees of scrutiny. Enter the new wave: graffiti tags presented in stitched format.

Ron and Allis Radosh Win Literary Prize for their book "A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel."
Source: Pajamas Media

According to the Washington Institute: The Book Prize, established to highlight new nonfiction books on the Middle East, is among the world's most lucrative literary awards.

Basic Xhtml Cheat Sheet UPDATED

I love to read people's comments on Newsvine, but it has become very difficult to understand the posts because many users are not including an indent or any editing when they post in html. I have worked to compile some basic editing tips in the chart to the right.

Graffiti yobs caught as they doodle their "tags" on school books
Source: The Sun Newspaper Online

TWO graffiti yobs were caught by cops who matched their street-art "signatures" to doodles on their school books. The vandals had added their individual "tags" to spray paintings on walls at a local skateboard park.

Rochester draws the line on graffiti
Source: The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Excerpt: First came ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system that blankets six square miles of the city with audio sensors to detect and pinpoint gunfire so police can respond.

Stimulus raises state sovereignty issues
Source: CNN

Sovereignty of States! What could this lead to? The 10th Amendmant is starting to be a major player with over 22 states callling for State Sovereignty.

Maelstrom Over Metadata
Source: Inside Higher Ed

A debate is underway in the academic web, pitting those who defend libraries' core mission of open access against the OCLC membership organization.

Amazon accidentally calls Obama a terrorist
Source: theridiculant.metro.co.uk

Oooops. Amazon.com look like they'll have a little explaining to do - namely, explaining why when you searched for the phrase "terrorist costume", the only result returned was a mask of Barack Obama...

Fear is What Stands Between Great Men and Greatness

John McCain was once revered as an honorable man. He started his campaign knowing this was his greatest asset, and has spiraled into an abyss of what appears to be a function of self-loathing and fear.

RFID Devices Could Place Americans Under Secret Surveillance
Source: Sciam

A privacy activist argues that these RFID devices pose new security risks to those who carry them, often unwittingly. By Katherine Albrecht in Scientific American magazine.

What's the Most Frequent Word on John McCain's Blog? "Obama"
Source: 1.bp.blogspot.com

Tag clouds are always fun. Link goes to an image of McCain's and Obama's tag clouds side by side.

Graffiti; Art? Vandalism? Or Both?

Chances are if you live in a big city or a train runs through your small town you've had an encounter with Graffiti.

Flickr Taps User Tags to Organize Library of Congress Images: Or, Wow, the Library of Congress just became a Flickr member
Source: Wired News

Flickr has unveiled a new project, dubbed The Commons, which will give Flickr members an opportunity to browse and tag photos from Library of Congress archives.

MarcadorSocial: Herramienta Mega Rapida Para Automatizar Tu Social Bookmarking
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Nace MarcadorSocial.com, una herramienta GRATUITA para agilizar el envio de tus marcas sociales a todos los servicios de social bookmarking.

Library of Congress uses Flickr to Tag Archive
Source: Library of Congress

The Library of Congress, in partnership with Flickr, is opening up their photo archives for tagging by the public. This project will allow greater access to the library's extensive archive by using the power of "crowdsourcing" to better document these important images.

Ft. Hard Knox ยป FHK SitRep 10.21.07: Categories - Yes, They ARE Important, and Why
Source: FHK

Bloggers know that most blogging software provides for "tags" or "categories," to be completed with each blog post. So, many of us go along with the "category" game, with no idea of why we're doing it, and whether or not it's a waste of time.

States, towns enforce handicapped parking
Source: USA Today

When Maureen Birdsall took her disabled, 92-year-old grandfather to a California hospital, she lost the only available handicapped-parking spot to a woman in a red corvette.

Things I Learned From Movies
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Keywords, Tags & Page Content - MMG
Source: Mandarich Media Group

The Article is about the type of content and tags you should use.

One of these 8 deal things

I have been tagged by Walt and i have to tell you 8 things about me that you don't know. Here are the rules:

Folksonomy Provides 70 Percent More Terms Than Taxonomy
Source: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net

From the article: While at the WWW Conference in Banff for the Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization Workshop and was chatting with Jennifer Trant about folksonomies validating and identifying gaps in taxonomy.

Snapshots that do more than bore friends
Source: CNET

Few sentences in the English language are more dreaded than this seemingly innocent offer: "Oh, I must show you the pictures from my vacation." Who wants to see endless shots of a friend lounging by a pool or in front of a monument, or--worse yet--their kids doing the very same t …

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