links for 2008-01-27

• MEDIA ADVISORY: Baidu Ranked Third Largest Worldwide Search Property by comScore in December 2007
  (tags: baidu search google yahoo! microsoft internet)
• Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring - washingtonpost.com
  "President Bush signed a directive this month that expands the intelligence community's role in monitoring Internet traffic to protect against a rising number of attacks on federal agencies' computer systems."
  (tags: u.s.a. bush intelligence security surveillance privacy)
• Colbert I. King - Billary's Adventures in Primaryland - washingtonpost.com
  "A Clinton administration will be a four-year co-presidency with all of the drama that Billary has managed to bring to every undertaking."
  (tags: vote2008)
• The Billary Road to Republican Victory - New York Times
  "Any Democrat who seriously thinks that Bill will fade away if Hillary wins the nomination — let alone that the Clintons will escape being fully vetted — is a Democrat who, as the man said, believes in fairy tales."
  (tags: vote2008)
• New York Times Magazine - Waving Goodbye to Hegemony
  U.S. hegemony gives way to "the big three:" U.S., Europe, and China. "Previous eras of balance of power have been among European powers sharing a common culture. ..What we have today, for the first time in history, is a global, multicivilizational, multip
  (tags: china geopolitics u.s.a. europe ideas)
• The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits -- to You
  A great infographic from WIRED about what happens to your thoughts after you publish them on a blog.
  (tags: newmedia blogs blogging internet aggregation rss web2.0)