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Hello Kitty to be appointed Japan’s tourism ambassador on Monday.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will announce the appointment on Monday, Kyodo said at the weekend, quoting ministry officials.
It will mark the first time a cartoon character has become a goodwill ambassador for Japan under the government’s campaign launched in 2003 to promote visits to the country, it said.
Under its “Visit Japan Campaign” to attract foreigners, the government hopes to attract 10 million overseas tourists annually by 2010, up from 8.35 million last year.
Google Co-Founder & President Larry Page will be a featured speaker for Google Unwired on May 22, that is this coming Thursday. The event will be streamed live through ustream.tv at which time he will answer questions.
The meat of the discussion will deal with the FCC’s 02/09 switch to DTV. However, I see this as an opportunity to sqeeze in a question about the Google slap of 2007. In advance questions were accepted by cyber.law.harvard.edu. Click to vote my question up.
Matt Cutts, a Google Engineer, works towards identifying and fighting spam. Not all spam is easily ID’d though. In this video he discuss “What Google Knows About Spam”. Towards the end he talks about the recent sql injection that hit thousands of sites. I guess the thing to do is what… use a WordPress firewall? Anyway, enjoy the clip.
In an exclusive on-camera interview with BlogHer, Sen. Obama (D-IL) answers questions about the economy, Iraq, health care and the environment — including a health-care screening process for every veteran and support for their spouses and families, health insurance coverage for birth control to avoid unwanted pregnancies, and working with China and other countries on climate change, a “major problem.”
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Unwired on May 22, that is this coming Thursday. The event will be streamed live through ustream.tv at which time he will answer questions.
