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I have not used IE for years and in light of the recent Internet Explorer HUGE security hole you may want to switch to one of these web browsers

• Firefox
• Opera
• Google Chrome (google will track you)

Microsoft: Hole exploit endangers all IE versions | Security - CNET News

An unpatched security hole in Internet Explorer that is being exploited affects all versions of the browser, making it more serious than originally believed when it was first publicized two days ago, Microsoft says.

Microsoft is investigating reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in IE but said in an update to a security advisory issued late on Thursday that all versions of IE are potentially vulnerable.

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Exclusive: Top 30 Newspaper Sites for October

NYTimes.com — 20,348,000 — 16%
washingtonpost.com — 12,375,000 — 43%
USATODAY.com — 11,381,000 — 20%
LA Times — 9,644,000 — 66%
Wall Street Journal Online — 8,910,000 — 52%

Boston.com — 6,133,000 — 11%
New York Post — 5,000,000 — 32%
Chicago Tribune — 4,955,000 — 36%
Daily News Online Edition — 4,671,000 — 33%
SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle — 4,634,000 — 28%

Politico — 4,565,000 — 178%
Chicago Sun-Times — 3,982,000 — 55%
DallasNews.com - The Dallas Morning News — 3,070,000 — 50%
Newsday — 2,948,000 — 14%
The Houston Chronicle — 2,937,000 — 4%

International Herald Tribune — 2,570,000 — 35%
KansasCity.com — 2,539,000 — 100%
Village Voice Media — 2,526,000 — 6%
Atlanta Journal-Constitution — 2,654,000 — 2%
Star Tribune — 2,489,000 — 59%

tampabay.com — 2,352,000 — 61%
Azcentral.com — 2,336,000 — 10%
Orlando Sentinel — 2,295,000 — 148%
Seattle Post-Intelligencer — 2,222,000 — 5%
MercuryNews.com — 2,167,000 — 19%

NJ.com — 2,100,000 — (-2%)
The Washington Times — 2,041,000 — 40%
Boston Herald — 1,971,000 — 167%
Baltimore Sun — 1,960,000 — 48%
The Seattle Times — 1,833,000 — (-7%)

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BarackObama.com maintained almost 3x the amount of site traffic as JohnMcCain.com and Obama’s spiked on the day before the election.

Obama also did a far superior job of keeping his site visitors inside his web of “change”.

Where people go on Barackobama.com:
my.barackobama.com - 47%
barackobama.com - 40%
store.barackobama.com - 6%
origin.barackobama.com - 2%
donate.barackobama.com - 2%
factcheck.barackobama.com - 1%
action.barackobama.com - 1%
Other websites - 1%

Where people go on Johnmccain.com:
johnmccain.com - 95%
store.johnmccain.com - 1%
Other websites - 4%

hulu.com will be streaming tonights McCain - Obama Presidential Debate  Hulu - Election ‘08

HULU

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Chicago Tribune Co. News articles “mysteriously” appearing out of nowhere is being investigated.

Probe into how Google mix-up caused $1 billion run on United - Times Online

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a “preliminary inquiry” into how an outdated bankruptcy story sparked a $1 billion run on an airline’s stock value.

The article about how United Airlines filed for bankruptcy in 2002 was revived when it showed up on a newspaper site’s “most viewed” section on Monday.

From there it was picked up by Google News and later seen by alarmed stockholders. The stock plunged from around $12 to just $3 a share before trading was halted.

The Chicago-based company’s shares did not fully recover once trading resumed on Monday, and were still down at just over $11 dollars at close of trading yesterday.

The devastating power of false media stories and the internet is frighting.

This is a real and devastating case of how the internet can and will be used to wreak havoc on U.S. Security, corporations, personal lives and Vise Presidential candidates.

Technorati Tags: media, tech, web, google, united airlines, stock, chicago tribune

Obama announcing his Vice President pick by text message is an ingenious way to latch onto tens of thousands of young voters and hundreds of thousands of other potential voters.

It still amazes me the lack of RSS feed links on both the McCain and Obama sites.
Each campaign should have a blaring and branded feed logo with an entire page dedicated to feed info and “howto” info.

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