Bush baiter quits after
liberals expose s*ex links
Ah, the life of a blogger. In a bizarre sequence of events,
a conservative reporter who asked President Bush a loaded question has
resigned after liberals questioned his background. Reporter Jeff Gannon,
who wrote for the web sites Talon News and GOPUSA, recently asked the
president how he planned to work with Senate Democratic leaders “who
seem to have divorced themselves from reality.” It turns out Gannon is
actually James Dale Guckert. He apparently adopted the nom de plume in
order to write for sexually explicit web sites Hotmilitarystud.com,
Militaryescorts.com and Militaryescortsm4m.com, along with
Exposejessejackson.com. Gannon, or Guckert, said last week he goes with
the pseudonym because it’s more commercially appealing. The latest
information about the reporter was posted on the liberal web sites Daily
Kos, Atrios and World o' Crap. On his now-defunct Conservative Guy web
site, Gannon had written that his mission is to “help people to realize
that they have conservative core values and are therefore conservatives”
and “to expose the liberal lies perpetuated by the media, Hollywood, the
teachers’ unions and the Democratic Party.”
Karmazin: We're trying
to swing an iPod deal
Sirius Satellite Radio may have
been able to woo shock jock Howard Stern and even win a major NFL deal.
But when Sirius chief executive Mel Karmazin approached Apple chief
executive Steve Jobs about the two companies joining forces, Jobs politely
dismissed Karmazin’s offer. Jobs' response was basically that the iPod
can hold 5,000 songs and Apple doesn’t need satellite radio. But Sirius
apparently hasn't given up its pursuit. At the 2005 Media Summit in
Manhattan yesterday, Karmazin likened Sirius joining with iPod to Sony
adding a radio tuner to its Walkman in the 1980s. Karmazin also denied
rumors that the Sirius is turning an old Hallmark store that is on the
street-level of the McGraw-Hill Building where Sirius is headquartered
into a studio for Howard Stern. The space will instead be a retail store
where Sirius will demonstrate and sell its products.
Kuwait battles terrorists' e-plans for U.S. attack
The war on terrorism
is now being fought on the internet. Kuwaiti
fundamentalists
are
allegedly
making plans via
the web to attack Americans
and the country's security forces
abroad. Since Sunday Kuwaiti
officials have been working to block Islamic web sites that incite
violence. Three Kuwaiti sites are now inaccessible, and technicians,
security officials and internet providers are trying to shut down some
sites outside of Kuwait. One militant who was arrested, Amer Khlaif al-Enezi,
confessed to a plot to load ice cream trucks with explosives and send them
on highways to blow up U.S. military convoys traveling to Iraq.
Impetuous youth? Teens click from sites quickly
If a company wants to
attract teenagers to its website then it should put all its interesting
content on its home page. Young web surfers make a decision about a site
after only seeing a page or two. That's according to a new study by
Nielsen Norman Group examining the internet habits of teens in the U.S.
and Australia. It found sites with interactive tools such as message
boards, polls, quizzes and web page building features were the most
attractive to teens. Teens were able to tolerate more images and text on a
page than adults and appreciate sites that allow them to discuss their
views and style anonymously. In the U.S. alone, three-fourths of teens use
the internet.
Study:
44 percent of Americans banking online
Working adults have
long griped about the inconvenience of trying to get to the bank before it
closes. Now, 44 percent of adult internet users in the U.S. have opted to
bypass the teller line for banking online. The Pew Internet and American
Life Project released a study that says banking is the fastest-growing
online activity, up 30 percent from last year. Sixty-three percent of
those with broadband connections at home have given virtual banking a try
compared with 32 percent of those with dial-up connections. The option is
most popular with younger adults, with 60 percent of users ages 28 to 39
having tried it. The study was based on a telephone survey of 537 internet
users.
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