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Networld

Google I: What is Google? It's a distributed computing platform that can manage web-scale datasets on 100,000 node server clusters - "While competitors are targeting the individual applications Google has deployed, Google is building a massive, general purpose computing platform for web-scale programming." (via Simon Willison)

Google II: Phil Wolff says Mail is part of Google's enterprise strategy - "Context, relevance, experience. Tough to beat."

XSLT: An XSLT Tutorial by John Bradley, King's College London (via Ian Oeschger)

PHP: Using PHP 5's SimpleXML

Textpattern I: German Textpattern Bloggers (via gnurps.de)

Textpattern II: Textpattern Plugins (via mapu.de)

Elsewhere

Phil Wolff II: Emergent disorganization: lessons from East Bay Kerry - "I've been rationalizing the 30-50 hours a week of grassroots campaigning I've been investing in the local Kerry campaign since last summer. [...] My takeaway is what I learn from it, how the work itself changes me. Here are a few lessons learned."

Jeffrey Zeldman: Signs that the Apocalypse is Nigh

Journalism

John Sack, "the only man ever to report from every US war in the last fifty years", is dead. The Prandial Post and Blog of Death report.

This year's Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting goes to the Toledo Blade for a series called Tiger Force, "exposing Vietnam atrocities." (via IT+W)

Ist Windkraft gut oder schlecht? - "Die Netzeitung veröffentlicht einen Artikel der in der Redaktion des Spiegel zum Eklat geführt hat", da nicht dieser, sondern ein anderer Artikel zum Thema Windenergie veröffentlicht wurde - mit genau entgegengesetzter Tendenz.

For your ears

Fans snap up Glastonbury tickets: "The website got two million impressions in the first five minutes, with 2,500 people on the phone lines every minute"

Solitary Man: Ville Vallo's current cover version isn't that bad at all. Johnny Cash's cover on super-fabulous American Recordings is a masterpiece. But nothing is cooler that the original version - by Mr Neil Uber-Cool Diamond. Don't miss all those funky horns in the background :-)