I read today on the Al Jazeera website that google are expanding their news search engine to include news archives from the last 200 years. I guess this will be a fantastic thing for journalists and researchers alike - giving them access to a wonderful perspective of history when writing articles.

Then I looked a little closer at which archives would be covered - “The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time magazine and The Washington Post.” - all notoriously american publications.

Google is fast becoming (or already is) the global search engine of choice, does their american orientation mean that our global history will start to be viewed increasingly through star-spangled lenses?

Do you like Dharmasphere? Do you listen to music? Sure you do!

Roll up and join the Dharmasphere group on Last FM. We’ll get group radio once we have a few more members…

Last FM is a website that learns your musical tastes and plays you a radio stream of similar music - from highly commercial to highly independent artists. It has introduced me to some fantastic new bands.

If you’re interested to listen to my music, one of my albums is in there:
Ishta - Live in Manchester