The wayback machine is a marvellous thing. It can serve a more useful purpose than letting you see the 1996 Yahoo front page. There are a lot of bloggers whose archives or old sites are gone, by design or accident. What they and their readers may not realize is that their sites are probably preserved [...]

I’ve created a Kinja digest of blogs and websites that are covering the events in Ukraine. Should be very useful.
Update: You might want to use the “collapsed” version to get a sampling of all the blogs.
You’re welcome to suggest more sites.
Update: (Tobias, 18:11 CET) - Amidst rumors about audiotapes that allegedly prove the election [...]

For all the uncertainty surrounding the events in Ukraine, they have - once again - made clear to which extent Europe, and our conception thereof, is changing. While EU spokespeople make every effort to reiterate in the run-up to the EU-Russian summit that nothing than a partnership is on the table, even longer-term, it appears [...]

Via an excited Brad DeLong and the Crooked Timber crew, I am informed that Google is beta testing a

Everybody knows cigarette warning labels. They are a fact of life, although evidence of their effectiveness in preventing people from smoking is scarce. Frankly, no one knows if they really have any significant effect given that, these days, everyone already knows about the health endangering nature of smoking. In fact, at least in Europe, warning [...]

For those ofyou interested, there may be some election blogging here later on (especially if Blogger goes down) but I’ve also set up a chat room for anyone interested. It’s #UKBloggers on the nightstar.net IRC network (if you have mIRC, it’s one of the regular networks on the list and if not, you should be [...]

Living in Europe is getting competition. “Viewropa” is a community blog started by members of MetaFilter who are “attempting an experiment in multi-lingual, collaborative and Euro-focused blogging”. And it’s a good looking experiment, too.

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Google yesterday released free software that lets you simultaneously search the Web and your PC hard drive for information. You can download here. This time it will be Microsoft and Yahoo who will be fuming in the back office.
What all this new Google stuff does seem to be exciting is some controversy about the [...]

Whilst speculation abounds in the weblog world that Google is about to launch its own browser tchnology, more traditional media seem to be enthusing about the possibility of Google book search:
Google, beset by a growing number of competitors in the internet search business, will shortly unveil a number of new features to its own [...]

The WorldChanging bloggers, who I should start reading, are celebrating their first anniversary. They’re running a bunch of guest posts to mark the occcasion.