<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/wl_nm/olympics_dissidents_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080820/2008_08_20t010217_450x281_us_olympics_dissidents.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=Upt35louB8dtW5zKVLPDFQ--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Paramilitary policemen stand guard near Tiananmen Square in Beijing August 12, 2008. (Nir Elias/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - At least eight American
blogger-activists and several other foreigners have been
detained in Beijing as the government intensifies a crackdown
on pro-Tibetan protests in the home stretch of the Olympics,
rights groups said on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080820/ts_alt_afp/usitinternetpoliticscompanygoogle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080820/capt.cps.nip22.200808105530.photo00.photo.default-512x346.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=wKFkHxmclbpUcLcgT7SmGQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Google will be pampering bloggers and tutoring US policy makers at Democratic and Republican national conventions as Internet culture flexes growing political muscle.(AFP/File/Jose Luis Roca)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Google will be pampering bloggers and tutoring US policy makers at Democratic and Republican national conventions as Internet culture flexes growing political muscle.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080820/tc_afp/oly2008internetblogsoffbeat"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080820/capt.cps.nin56.200808052355.photo00.photo.default-512x361.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=CnKAu7u7GK01YWu7uRehcA--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Hundreds of Olympians are updating blogs about their experiences in Beijing and the unwritten rule appears to be: The bigger the star the blander the blog(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Hugh MacDonald, Canadian's reserve archer for the Olympics, was not a happy blogger.</p><br clear="all"/>
NewsFactor - A new beta software development kit is out for Android, the open-source mobile operating system backed by Google. Version 0.9 of the SDK was announced Monday on the Android Developers Blog.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080819/en_celeb_eo/24574"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20080819/capt.b1009deca425ace75111205eef8441f5.jpg?x=130&y=130&q=85&sig=6I6ARgSIai0zJ9c5XMf2UA--" align="left" height="130" width="130" alt="Afternoon Fix: A Tired Feud; Plus, Brad-Jen Dreams!(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - ? Jon Voight and Roseanne Barr are worse than Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump. J.Vo responded to R.Bo's angry blog post by calling her "sick of the mind." Either settle this with a reality show or please just stop, OK?</p><br clear="all"/>
BusinessWeek Online - A heated discussion is taking place in the economic blogsphere over the rival tax plans of Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. Of course, the battle of rival tax blueprints has been in force ever since the two hopefuls sewed up their respective nominations, but a new round of fighting recently erupted. A number of important points have been made. But the fiscal policy dispute, while informative and fascinating, has focused too much on tax regimes and not enough on the real challenge: health care. ...
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080818/en_celeb_eo/24279"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20080818/capt.4965ef44bd41d26f301c0a1acaa62010.jpg?x=130&y=130&q=85&sig=qtQySxVFsu5mAb6C6Vryjg--" align="left" height="130" width="130" alt="Gossip Girls Dish on Catfight!(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - Did Blake Lively and Leighton Meester have to do much acting for their buzzed/blogged-about fight scene in an upcoming episode of Gossip Girl?</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080818/en_celeb_eo/24212"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20080818/capt.d2b3dbc161130ea30606feda681d1a46.jpg?x=130&y=130&q=85&sig=Nb19EpmaOE0kkK07qVUFbA--" align="left" height="130" width="130" alt="Rise 'n' Shine: Brangelina Declared Evil by Roseanne(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - ? Roseanne seems a bit upset that Angelina Jolie hasn't declared her support for Obama. She blogs/rants that Brad & Angie make $40 million a year in "violent psychopathic movies," donate a small fraction to charity "to look as if they give a crap about humanity" and then churn more films that "wreck the earth even more."</p><br clear="all"/>
Reuters - Former "Nightline"
executive producer Leroy Sievers, who connected with a wide
audience through his National Public Radio commentary and blog
on his struggle with cancer, died Saturday at his home in
Maryland. He was 53.
AP - Leroy Sievers, a National Public Radio commentator who turned his battle with cancer into a popular and touching radio and online series, has died from his disease. He was 53.
NewsFactor - Yet another vendor has fallen prey to "premature launch syndrome." Yesterday someone at Palm uploaded a text and visual presentation of the Treo Pro to the Palm Web site, and it didn't escape notice. Even though the presentation was pulled just minutes later, pictures and text were dutifully scooped up by bloggers and passed throughout the Net.
NewsFactor - Microsoft has launched a new blog page for discussions with customers and partners about the next Windows operating system. "We strongly believe that success for Windows 7 includes an open and honest, and two-way, discussion," said Windows 7 development engineers Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080813/wr_nm/olympics_ceremony_criticism_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080813/2008_08_13t053954_372x450_us_olympics_ceremony_criticism.jpg?x=107&y=130&q=85&sig=UuVWkBK0QIbExkNga24qyw--" align="left" height="130" width="107" alt="Lin Miaoke, a nine-year-old Chinese girl who performed at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, returns to the Xizhongjie Primary School of Dongcheng District in Beijing August 9, 2008 in this photo distributed by China's official Xinhua News Agency. Lin, the pretty girl who shot to fame at China's Olympic opening ceremony was a photogenic front for the real singer, who was rejected appearance-wise in the 'national interest,' Chinese media reported Tuesday. (Xinhua/Zhou Liang/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Bloggers were up in arms on Wednesday
over China's decision at the Olympic opening ceremony to have a
pretty little girl lip-synching for the real singer who had
crooked teeth.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080812/bs_nf/61274"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080820/capt.cps.nip22.200808105530.photo00.photo.default-512x346.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=wKFkHxmclbpUcLcgT7SmGQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Google will be pampering bloggers and tutoring US policy makers at Democratic and Republican national conventions as Internet culture flexes growing political muscle.(AFP/File/Jose Luis Roca)" border="0" /></a>NewsFactor - Google's Gmail service suffered a major outage Monday afternoon, with many users locked out of their e-mail for several hours. The company confirmed the outage in an unusual apology on its Gmail blog. Titled "We feel your pain and we're sorry," the blog post said the problem was caused by a "temporary outage in our contacts system that was preventing Gmail from loading properly."</p><br clear="all"/>
NewsFactor - The Internet remains vulnerable to exploits of a critical security flaw in the Domain Name System, a Russian programmer demonstrated last week. Writing on his blog on Friday, Evgeniy Polyakov posted that he had succeeded in getting patched DNS software to return an incorrect location in less than 10 hours.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080809/ap_en_ce/people_clay_aiken"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080808/capt.1c2269c59a364764a66c423ae1580e61.people_clay_aiken_nyet177.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=.IrDAIT1hf66edMu2TktCQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this Jan. 10, 2008, file photo, Clay Aiken is shown in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Former "American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken is a father. The 29-year-old crooner from Raleigh announced the birth of Parker Foster Aiken on his Web site's blog Friday. "No hyphens. One first name," he wrote. "One middle name. One last name."</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080808/en_celeb_eo/22842"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20080808/capt.e5d63e5a09dfcb8afde89729e4c0daa4.jpg?x=130&y=130&q=85&sig=T3_vavog4y0BZx0V_6wNrg--" align="left" height="130" width="130" alt="Rise 'n' Shine: Shut Your Mouth, Internet: Vivi & Knox Are for Real(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - ? People refutes the Internet claims that a smile was Photoshopped onto one of the Brangelina twins. Silly blogs, Viviknox are just naturally magical obvs.</p><br clear="all"/>
PC Magazine - The developers of Firefox have unveiled an experimental project, Snowl, designed to gather all your inbound communications, whether they're in the form of email, RSS, Twitter, or social network updates.
PC Magazine - Federal guidelines for what type of information companies can provide on their official Web sites have not been updated since 2000, so the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday voted unanimously to modernize its rules.
