Links for October 11, 2006

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Writely, acquired by Google earlier this year, is gone. In its place: Google Docs, an online word processing application. Earlier this year, Google also launched a spreadsheet service. Related: Zoho Virtual Office Launching Tomorrow; Racing Google to Market.

comScore misinterprets data: MySpace is *NOT* gray

danah debunks this week’s comScore report that more than half of MySpace’s visitors are 35 or older. I still think MySpace is past its cool point.

Keep Out

“America: land of the free, home of the thought police.” The U.S. refuses to admit Tariq Ramadan because: between 1998 and 2002, he donated about seven hundred and seventy dollars to a pro-Palestinian French charity that was suspected of channelling money to Hamas, and which did not appear on the State Department’s blacklist until 2003.

U.S. Says Blacks in Mississippi Suppress White Vote

What grabbed me: I believe they were under so much pressure because of Ike’s very sophisticated election operation. He is a Karl Rove genius on the Noxubee County level.