| Super Hot Blog Domain Names BlogScoop.com and BlogSpeed.com are ...
Las Vegas, NV -- Apr 13, 2007 -- /prbuzz/ -- Domain names based on two of the hottest Blog terms in the world are being auctioned on eBay this week. BlogScoop.com and BlogSpeed.com are both up for auction this week on eBay, and both are expected to get quite a bit of attention. BlogScoop commonly refers to the first occurrence of a story in the blogosphere. BlogSpeed commonly refers to the speed at which news and information travel in the blogosphere. "Blogs represent the future of how news and information will be distributed", said Jacob Anderson, Marketing Director for NameRSS.com, "The owners of these domains will have a phenomenal platform on which to affect the future of information delivery, and there is great value in that. For example, the domain Blogster.com recently sold for $275,000.
Mammoth, meteorite or bezoar? Christie's offering all 3 in unusual ...
Christie's auction house in Paris, which usually sells fine art and furniture, is hosting an unusual auction of paleontological curiosities, including several prehistoric mammals. Skeletons of a 10,000-year-old, four-metre-long rhinoceros and a two-metre-high cave bear are also going under the hammer. The skeletons are currently owned by a private collector but buyers may include museums or artists, said Christie's spokeswoman Capucine Milliot. The auction is not to all paleontologists' liking. Pascal Tassy, professor at Paris's Natural History Museum, has decried the selling off of specimens that could be useful to science. "It is a pernicious consequence of the Jurassic Park effect," he said. "In the past, private collectors donated to museums, it was a great time of patronage.
TOPIC OF THE DAY Bidding process
The Spring Lake Heights Borough Council awarded a sole bidder a $750,000 contract to replace residential water meters. The sole bid was just $35 less than the appropriation. The bid specifications stated, "The Borough has selected Sensus Metering Systems for this Project. The successful contractor will replace all existing water meters with Sensus meters." No one in borough hall could provide one document showing the name Sensus Metering Systems, let alone explain how it was "selected." In-Line Services was the only Sensus distributor and installer that bid. New Jersey's public contract law strongly discourages the use of manufacturer names in bid specifications because it prevents free, open and competitive bidding. Every borough taxpayer should ask, "Why would they do this?" Surely, the answer is not "for the love of Spring Lake Heights." Would any of those who voted for this contract stop at one bid if it were their personal $750,000 and their own residential project? The bid specifications deny Spring Lake Heights taxpayers a competitive process.
Cricket: Pietersen bids to lift World Cup gloom
Kevin Pietersen is praying England can finally deliver against South Africa on Tuesday and avoid suffering a 'dismal' World Cup campaign. The Hampshire batsman enters England's crucial Super Eight match at the Kensington Oval desperate to perform against a major nation during the tournament. England have lost their matches against New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Australia - the only top Test nations they have faced so far in the tournament - yet still have a chance of reaching the semi-finals. But as they prepare for tomorrow's showdown with South Africa, which is effectively a quarter-final with the winners expected to qualify for the last four, Pietersen is eager to end that miserable record against top opposition. 'We need to win a big game against a big nation and that's what we have to do tomorrow,' said Pietersen.
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