Semant-O-Matic may be just the thing. Its author, Maciej Ceglowski, calls it a Blog semantic search engine. [Scripting News]

On globalization, tactics, and the new football game. Love or hate it, football – or soccer for the Americans – is the biggest pro sport in the world. It has been practiced in almost every country for a long time, and has shown a remarkable stability in its rules since its creation as a sport, more than one century ago. If the rules are stable, the game itself is still evolving. Football is now a global sport. Players from all around the world play on the world's top leagues. The World Cup is now a truly global event, smaller only than the Olympic Games, which is also a remarkable achievement for a single sport. The globalization of football has led to big changes on the dynamic of the game, changes which have made the game that we watch today a different spectacle to watch than the one from a few decades ago. [kuro5hin.org]

E-mail snooping rider on child porn bill. This week I was phone solicited by the Concerned Women for America to support HR 4623, which is supposed to be a more legally tight version of the 1996 virtual child pornography law that was struck down last month by the U.S. Supreme court for being too vague. I agreed to a $10 pledge, but after researching the issue I retracted. I discovered the provision 8(a)(2) that would allow the federal government to request copies of e-mail for any reason without a court order. [kuro5hin.org]

Andy Edmonds: “The A Day in the Life study is a large scale sample of internet behavior. Data collected will be released under an open data license. The first study will commence in mid July.” [Scripting News]