According to the Wall Street Journal, “

[i]n the struggle to manage its rising tide of Chinese imports, the European Union is considering a subtle but important shift in its approach to Beijing.  The EU strategy, which people familiar with the matter say is still under discussion, would be to offer China recognition as a ‘market economy’ in the hope of extracting a range of concessions the Europeans deem crucial to balancing the trade relationship.”

The Washington Post today has a list of PC World’s editors’ 100 favorite blogs.  The blogs on the list cover “everything from high tech to low comedy and all manner of pursuits in between.”

The Register reports that, according to a new study, “[s]ocial networking users tend to get around, as they say, and not stay faithful to one network.  The report, Web 2.0 & the New Net, by research group Parks Associates, found that MySpace users are chronically unfaithful. The survey found that nearly 40 per cent of MySpace users keep profiles on other social networking sites, such as Friendster and Facebook.  Meanwhile, loyalty among the smaller social networking sites is even lower, with more than 50 per cent of all users actively maintaining multiple profiles.”

Reuters writes that “[d]octors backed away on Sunday from a controversial proposal to designate video game addiction as a mental disorder akin to alcoholism, saying psychiatrists should study the issue more.  Addiction experts also strongly opposed the idea at a debate at the American Medical Association’s annual meeting.  They said more study is needed before excessive use of video and online games — a problem that affects about 10 percent of players — could be considered a mental illness.”

According to Slashdot, “preparations [are] in the works by the US government to prep for a ‘cyberwar’. Precautionary measures are being taken to guard against concerted attacks by politically-minded (or well-paid) hackers looking to cause havoc. Though they outline scenarios where mass damage is the desired outcome (such as remotely opening a dam’s gates to flood cities), most expect such conflicts to be more subtle. Parts of the internet, for example, may be unreachable or unreliable for certain countries.”