Sri Lanka Launches Anti-Porn Initiative

On September 8th 2010 Johnny Selman started BBCX365 for which he’s designing a poster a day for 365 days in reaction to a headline on the BBC news story. Selman’s project aims to “promote the awareness of global current events with the American public”. He feels “American citizens know little about current events in general and even less about overseas events” and the “unwillingness of American citizens to live up to their civic responsibilities is due to the supply and content of our news because news is Driven by market pressures, news organizations across the globe are turning to more entertainment-centred forms of reporting, making it more difficult for lazy citizens to encounter substantive political information as a matter of course”.

Dubai Bomb Was Flown On Passenger Planes

Hat Tip: The Guardian.

In January 2007 Matt Novak started his Paleo-Future blog which exhibits past visions of the future – entertaining and often amusing.

Hat Tip: Very Short List.

Back in September Shaun Usher, a freelance writer, started the blog, Letters of Note – which Shaun describes as an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos – far more interesting than Twitter – you know the decline in the use of paper is something to be mourned.

Hat Tip: Very Short List.

Duncan started Ideas Exist on the 27th July, 2009 and writes:

Whose ideas, you ask? Well, some ideas come straight off the top of my head; others are ideas that have already been put into practice and might provide inspiration or just be interesting to read about. Some have been submitted by readers.

Ideas fall into a wide range of categories. There are business ideas, and inventions. Marketing strategies, and money-saving tips. Some posts will just be eye-openers or provide food for your creative fish.

That’s the idea, anyway.

Adertising on Ten Pound Note

He’s certainly some interesting ideas, such as advertising on money, which is likeable and horrifying at the same time – I look forward to plenty more ideas.

Hat Tip: The Guardian.

I’ve always been fascinated by George Orwell, so I’m looking forward to the Orwell Diaries which is to publish in blog Orwell’s diaries starting on 9 August 1938 in Morocco and ending in 1942 three years into the Second World War exactly 70 years after they were written.

Hat Tip: BBC.

I like lists, The Observer ranks the world’s 50 most powerful blogs of which I read absolutely none, although I do have a friend who’s addicted to the blog at number four – Perez Hilton. Looks like 50 blogs I need to investigate when I get a chance, which probably means no chance.