Check out “Digg”:1. Here’s how they describe themselves:

bq.. Digg is a technology news website that gives editorial control back to the community. Most technology websites allow users to suggest content by submitting links or stories to an editor. If the editor believes the story to be relevant to the masses, he or she moves the story to the homepage. With digg, users also submit links for review. But rather than allowing an editor to decide which links go on the homepage, the users do.

p. So I guess you’d call it a social news network. Kind of cool, however, pretty basic at this point. I can see a lot of potential especially once they make the hierarchy a little richer. That is, they only have “top level” categories like “_hardware_”:2 and “_games_”:3. Once they have sub categories like _hardware/Mac_ or _hardware/video cards_ I think it will be a lot more useful.

Anyway, something to keep an eye on.

[3(Diggs gaming category)]http://www.digg.com/gaming

[2(Diggs hardware category)]http://www.digg.com/hardware

[1(Digg it)]http://www.digg.com

Well, this totally sucks…

_*Update: 2005-07-02*_
I was finally able to download and install Google Earth. It’s a lot like Google Maps in a client version. However, the road overlays look a lot better in Google Earth than in the satellite view of Google Maps.

I missed President Bush’s “speech”:1 on Tuesday, but I really wanted to hear it when I got home later on Tuesday. I now see that they have a “video”:2 of the speech on the official Whitehouse.gov site, but on Tuesday evening, they hadn’t posted it yet.

I skipped the usual suspects for search (i.e., Google and Yahoo!), because they are pretty much useless for semi-realtime information. Unfortunately, Technorati was not working, so on a hunch I tried “Instapundit”:3 — one of the more popular political blogs. Indeed, Glenn Reynolds had this “link”:4 to the speech video. Right on!

While fixing dinner, I listened to the speech through my hella-cheap home theater system hooked up to my Dell Axim PDA. Not too bad… it only took me about five minutes to find, download and get the speech playing. You gotta love the web!

[4(First post I could find of the speech video)]http://thepoliticalteen.net/2005/06/28/1819/

[3(Glenn Reynolds the Instapundit)]http://instapundit.com/

[2(Video link to the speech on Whitehouse.gov)]http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/06/20050628-7.html#

[1(Whitehouse web site on the speech)]http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/06/20050628-7.html