Web week

Down to basics in the war zone:

As Western news crews struggled to get close to the troubled zones of Iraq in the past week to find out what was happening, bloggers in Iraq were painting a gripping picture of life on the ground. For their accounts go to

Baghdad Burning

,

Empire Notes

,

Healing Iraq

or

Where is Raed?

.

One of the most remarkable is a daily diary from a

family in Baghdad

.

Flaming Bush:

As the violence continues in Iraq, 400,000 Americans have signed an online petition for President

George W. Bush to be impeached

, and another site

is listing the "failures" of the Bush Administration

.

Rush for the big picture:

A site

giving a colour-coded visual representation of the constantly changing landscape

of Google's news service went up a few days ago, was swamped and crashed. It has recovered.

Unhurt by burning:

When researchers at the Harvard Business School and the University of North Carolina tracked illegal music downloads and compared them to CD sales of the same music, they concluded that the effect of file sharing on sales of CDs is virtually nil. Their report can be read

here

.

World's best at home:

Aucklander Roger Smith's

Global Museum site

has been named best museum professional's site in an American award to honour

achievement in heritage Web site design

.