Poppy Bush Hates Bloggers

... It's to bad in a way

Emsdetten: barely 7 miles away

... from my hometown

Masked gunman storms school, then kills himself

A masked man stormed a secondary school in Emsdetten, near the Dutch border, yesterday wearing explosives and wielding rifles. He injured at least 11 people before killing himself. Police said the man was an 18-year-old former pupil of the school. "He was a loner who was severely unhappy with his life," state prosecutor Wolfgang Schweer said. German television quoted from a suicide note, reportedly published on one of the attacker's two websites, in which he said: "This revenge will be carried out so brutally and ruthlessly that it will chill you to the bone."
Jess Smee in Berlin
Guardian

Main ethnic minority groups in Birmingham

Main ethnic minority groups in Birmingham.

(Guardian)

The London Eye

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Flying over the TIC! (Birmingham, UK)

Enjoy! Press start!

Woman under veil

Woman under veil
Originally uploaded by Keka ;).

Hopes and fears (by Seb)

Interesting contribution to the question of hope and fears by Seb! (to read!)

Internet advertising is already three times the size of the radio market (UK)

Internet advertising in the UK is already three times the size of the radio market and is on course to overtake press revenues by the end of the year. According to figures from the Internet Advertising Bureau, almost £1bn was spent online by advertisers in the first six months of 2006.

(Guardian)

Out of shape Lions crash in Croatia [England vs. Croatia 0:2]

... but Germany did it quite well [4:1]

Windsurf wipeouts: UUps, I wanna do it again!

... next year probably!

Prost!

Originally uploaded by mimax.

Will Google buy YouTube: buyout!

A never ending story!

First flickr and now it's time for Youtube to fall in the arms of the fathers of the web!

Web-search giant Google is in talks to acquire YouTube for roughly $1.6bn (€1.2bn), a person familiar with the matter says.

The discussions between Google and YouTube are still at a sensitive stage and could break off, says the person familiar with the matter. Other technology, media and entertainment companies have expressed interest in taking stakes in YouTube this year, according to people familiar with the matter.

Google rival Yahoo earlier this week expressed interest in holding acquisition talks with the video start-up, these people say. YouTube also turned down a lower proposed value from Google earlier this week, before commencing discussions about the possible $1.6bn deal.

financialnews-us.com

Birmingham: Digbeth art

Digbeth art
Originally uploaded by srboisvert.

YouTube delays posting!

If you post a video with the build in features of YouTube to a blog, this posting appears in the next 50 hours. What a delay ...
Manually postings are much more straightforward.

Birmingham skyline

Under the Radar Fireside Chat: Why web 2.0 matters

Michael Arrington interviews Ross Levinsohn, president of Fox Interactive where he reveals Fox bought one of the companies in the room ... but wouldn't say which company.

Yesterday: Soweto Kinch !

Talk about the album and the neighbourhood in Birmingham where he lives for our latest podcast on the Grassroots Channel.

http://www.podnosh.com/blog/?p=53

Paradise place

Paradise place
Originally uploaded by mimax.

Lonely swan finds a love boat (Muenster, Ger)

Today in the METRO:

A lonely swan has fallen in love with a swan-shaped plastic paddle boat on a lake in Germany. The rare Black Australian bird is showing all the typical signs of swan love / circling the boat, staring endlessly at it and cooning - on the Aasee lake in Muenster, north-western Germany. Biologists hope the swan won't be pining when the boat is locked away for the winter.

I'll see it.

Any photoes?