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# An occasional reader of this blog leaves a strange tattoo in his wake: Mumbai, Australia. What the heck does that mean?

Obviously, there is no such terrestrial location. I construe it to mean that two telecom companies or two branches of one such company are sharing the services of the same telecom satellite, resulting in this new Virtual Location which has no Actual Location on the ground.

You may discern from this, as well, that India has some spacey ambitions. Thus, it came as no big surprise today that India has launched another telecom satellite. Isn't it getting a bit crowded up there? I hope we're not in for traffic jams up in space.

:: ON THE BIRD: "India sent into orbit a rocket
carrying the replacement for a communications
satellite destroyed last year, raising its hopes
of competing for global satellite launch business."

# PORTABLE BREAKING NEWS: When news breaks around here, the satellite dish trucks show up. But they may not be around for a long time to come. Reporters are now using much more portable equipment, as this item notes: with just a Treo and a Blackberry a TV reporter did a live shot from the scene of a breaking story. Mmm... how much do they weigh?

# *Every social stereotype has a caricature associated with it, and the "anonymous Web writer" has theirs... "some blogger writing in his basement in his pajamas."

Griffith created Wikiscanner for a frankly political reason... In the process, however... he's undermined the myth of the anonymous blogger in the basement.* From Annalee Newitz.

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