The Eagle: Cab Driver Protest

Cab drivers protest, bar seeking student suffer.

http://www.theeagleonline.com/news/story/cab-drivers-protest

The Eagle: D.C. rolls out new ID cards

Intern for the Federal Government and you may have to give up  private information to the DC local municipalities.

http://www.theeagleonline.com/news/story/d.c.-rolls-out-new-id-cards

Here are a few documents that outline the DC government’s plan to collect information about DC residents.

why big media loves bing.com

The media may have an inherent biased while writing stories about Microsoft’s new search engine bing.com Read this latest post about bing in the New York Times.

You hear it in the newsrooms or among media types in the break room, everyone is in love with bing.  “Did you check it out?…Yeah I like the new clean design.”

If you ask me the search results look pretty much the same to me.  In fact there’s a rumor that Microsoft passively collected search data from Google’s own web site to get their R&D off the ground.  Bing has a few cash incentive programs to entice new users but that’s not the point.

The Google search algorithm is special in the sense that it allows for a level playing field as far as what’s popular and what’s not.  There are no gatekeepers and a mother in Ohio can make a video that appears at #1 on the Google.com search results for funny political cat humor.

The media hate this.

Microsoft on the other hand has a clear track record of sucking up to the business establishment.  They did it with the record label companies and they could be a huge game changer in the highly profitable search engine ad-based market.

Wrap that along with the industry conventional wisdom that blames Google News for the decline in print based ad-revenue and you can see why media elites are rooting for a Microsoft win.

wtop.com: Runoff Temporarily Stops Some Work on HOT lanes

Runoff can damage a stream’s ecosystem and VDOT knows it. Mother nature has delayed the construction of Virginia’s new pay lanes.

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=600&sid=1703532

wtop.com: Are Blackberry’s Useful or Annoying?

Most people in the work force would consider it rude to whip it out under the table but some find it useful.

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=108&sid=1701763

wtop.com: Johnny Holiday Cancer Sports New Look to Fight Caner

Johnny Holiday is a Washington sports broadcaster but did you also know that he is shaving his head to show support for his grandson’s cancer?

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=598&sid=1698712