Slate announces that its parent, Microsoft, has sold the pioneering online magazine (where afoe’s own Scott MacMillan’s byline appears from time to time) to the Washington Post. I haven’t seen Slate’s figures, but it’s just possible that Microsoft might not need to show its financial statements pro forma for the divestiture.
At this juncture it would [...]

Get Germanized.It’s Saturday, so just a little entertainment… Deutsche Welle offers a fun way to assess your knowledge of Kraut-related affairs - the Instant Germanizer. But don’t be afraid, resistance is not futile, and the Germanizer won’t confiscate your native passport, even if you manage to win… enjoy.

If you want to, you can take a break from nominating blogs for the European Weblog Awards, and go and nominate A Fistful of Euros for the 2004 Koufax Awards. I think we’re a credible choice for Best Group Blog, Most Deserving of Wider Recognition, Best Writing (Mrs Tilton on her own would qualify [...]

A couple of newish blogs that Fistful readers might find interesting: Transition Trends, a blog from the people behind Transitions Online, and Lose The Delusion, a British blog that describes itself as ‘proudly battling Euroscepticism’. Feel free to plug any other new and interesting blogs in the comments.
And to plug ourselves, if you’re a LiveJournal [...]

I just noticed that afoe has been nominated for the Wizbang 2004 Weblog Awards in the category “Best European (non-UK) Blog”. As usual with blog awards, the opportunity to find great blogs one has not been aware of so far seems more important than winning. But if you, gentle readers, should decide afoe is worth [...]

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 [...]