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Presidential Campaign News Source: Cable, Internet, Not Newspapers
2012-02-08 12:27:00 According to a study released by the Pew Research Center For The People and The Press, the leaders in where Americans get their news are cable, local TV news, network news, the Internet, and local papers. But what’s interesting in the Pew study, is how its own author of the online article explaining its results (Read More...)
Fake Threats To Shutdown Facebook Emerge On The Internet
2012-01-25 05:14:00 Anonymous are known for DDOS attacks on government and organizational websites. They stand for the protection of anonymity and other online rights on the web. They attack those who they perceive as deniers of these rights. Anonymous is not an organization. Instead it is a loose collective with no leaders and hence cannot be tracked easily. They have recently taken down the US Department of justice website in retaliation for the closure of Megaupload.com by the FBI. Earlier, they hacked CBS and Universal Music’s websites. They have also attacked Indian Governmental websites. This sort of online activism in called ‘Hactivism’. So, today news started coming in when Mashable declared that Anonymous has threatened to shut Facebook down on January 28th as part of a global blackout to protest SOPA and PIPA. There is a video doing the rounds on the Internet which is supposedly the one that announced this blackout. The video tells us in trademark anonymous style that an online war ...
By: WATblog
Fixed Internet Providers, 4G Wireless, and the Future of the Internet
2012-01-13 01:00:00 A lot of people pit 4G wireless broadband against fixed internet services. Some say that the former is where the future of the Internet lies, while others believe that the latter will continue to be the type of service that the majority of users will use when accessing the World Wide Web.
?Be Nice? on the Internet Week (Jan 9-13)
2012-01-08 16:55:00 Real Simple is instituting a return to online civility with the first annual ?Be Nice on the Internet? Week. From January 9th to 13th, RealSimple.com will feature a look at the impact of internet negativity, expert tips on etiquette for the age of social media, and advice from celebrities and media personalities who have experienced ...
By: An Island Life
Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To NOT Know How The Internet Works : This
2012-01-06 19:06:00 Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works | Motherboard For any one who pays attention to details concerning Congress, who could forget the day the now dead, Ted Stevens, the Senator from Alaska, stepped up to the Senate floor microphone and released his famous tirade about the Internet being a series of tubes, and NOT a huge drump truck, onto the United States audience. (see C-Span for evidence) Jon Stewart made fun of him on The Daily Show, we all made fun of Ted Stevens the fuddy duddy grandpap and great grandpap Luddite. With that said, a bunch of very astute, very knowledgeable and very bright people all got together and wrote a letter to congress. It's titled: DEAR CONGRESS, IT'S NO LONGER OK TO NOT KNOW HOW THE INTERNET WORKS. Whether it was George W. Bush referring to “the internets” or Senator Ted Stevens describing said internets as “a series of tubes,” we would sit back and chortle at our well-meaning but horribly uninformed represen...
Who will control the internet? Humans or machines or something else?
2012-01-04 08:28:00 I believe that Time is invented by humans, events arediscovered by nature or god or something. Our human world based on both time andevents. Our brain is well-trained for both time-based and event based world. Everydaytasks that we are doing either based on time or event. If we want to design asystem based on time or event or hybrid means then we should understand their properties.Following are the properties of time - Time is a regular, repetitive one, more proactive,high cost, need to know everything in advance, low runtime overhead, anythingthat is not completely known cannot be handled at all, assumes periodic world, inflexible? can only handle what is completely known before, deterministic ? knownbeforehand which activity running when etc. Even based systems has followingproperties - flexible ? not completely known activities can be added easily, widelyused in many systems, simple constraints, high runtime overhead, limitedpredictability etc.Humans typically support more toward...
The Internet In India 2011-12: Edelweiss Capital’s Releases Its Annua
2011-12-29 10:19:00 Financial services company Edelweiss Capital, an India based firm, has released its Annual Report for the year 2011. Edelweiss are known for their strikingly comprehensive reports. They take Industry Snapshots and ensure they do it with a level of competency that makes them difficult to miss. They recently published their report on the Internet in India for the 2011-12. The Internet, which was named ‘Person of the Year’ by Time Magazine in 2004, has grown beyond anyone’s imagination. E-Commerce too is constantly in a state of growth. Here are some highlights from the report, and the various themes covered: E-Retail will grow 20X by 2016, reaching $12 Billion a year. Online Advertising will triple by 2016 to reach $800 Million. Online Classifieds will touch $700 Million by 2016. Key Enablers for ensuring rapid growth are falling into place. Eg: Internet Penetration, Literacy, Payment Options. Ever increasing User Base is a strong factor for growth. Social ...
By: WATblog
I Work For The Internet~~~ADD YOURSELF~~~Even If You're Just A Blogger !!!
2011-12-22 19:32:00 I WORK FOR THE INTERNET is a website started by nerdy computer geeks who are sick and tired of the authoritarians running and ruining their Computer generated lives. We work for the Internet. We know first-hand that the Internet powers the American dream. American innovators have built the world's most popular sites, selling products and services to every corner of the globe, creating high-paying jobs from Maine to Hawaii. If Congress passes the Stop Online Piracy Act, America's most promising engine of future jobs and opportunity will be put at risk. Don't stop us now — we're just getting started! Tell the world you work for the Internet. "We work for the Internet," boldly declares. "We know first-hand that the Internet powers the American dream." The internet powers the American Dream. This is certainly a development, probably related to the collapse of the last great toxic ecosystem that powered the American dream, the one involving subprime mor...
CENSORING THE INTERNET
2011-12-07 19:14:00 As hard (and ironic) as it may be to believe, the information super highway--aka The Internet--is in danger of being censored by the U.S. Government. According to the The Protect IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property) that's currently on route to Congress, corporations are seeking the power to censor what they dub "unauthorized" media sites. Take a look at the following video to understand what's truly at stake and how it endangers the basic Internet principles of expression and exchange. And make sure you check out AmericanCensorship.org to find out more about...
I feel like I?ve just won the Internet
2011-11-24 00:33:00 *ahem* Bing SERP today showed that my post was at the top 4 or so… Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Bing, Firefox, Winning, Internet
US Stop Online Piracy Act: Bad News to the Internet World
2011-11-20 13:17:00 There are so much concern now all over the net regarding the passage of the bill called Stop Online Piracy Act also known as Internet Black List Bill which according to the statement of US Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), "would mean the end of the internet as we know it". The principle of SOPA is ...
The Internet Blacklist Bill [Infographic]
2011-11-18 09:00:00 Yesterday I posted a little about the Internet Blacklist bills that congress is trying to shove down our throats. These bills are similar to Internet censorship bills you may have heard about in citizen loving countries like China, Iran and Syria (Did you catch that sarcasm?) Well the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is a non-profit Internet watchdog group that fights to preserve your rights to a free internet which includes free speech. These bills seek to erode those freedoms, and I just can?t sit back and do nothing about it. Neither should you. Check out this infographic explaining the dangers of the Internet Blacklists: Want to do something? Click the infographic to find out how you can ask your representatives to fight this nonsense. I mean, this was America the last time I checked. I don?t want to lose it! del.icio.us Tags: sopa,internet,blacklist,congres-s,eff,infographic
By: Bauer-Power
Is The Internet Full? [Infographic]
2011-11-16 09:00:00 If you sit back and think about how simply vast the internet is, and all the crap on it you're head might very well explode. Have you ever tried to ponder how many Wordpress blogs are out there? How many Youtube videos are uploaded every day? How many websites are out there that you will never see because of the billions of search combinations you can do on Google, yet never quite hit the right one?Sometimes I think about it, and when i found this infographic, I thought it would be a good thing to post here on Bauer-Power. Thouogh I doubt it really is "full" this infographic goes to show you that there is a lot of junk out there. So much in fact that it's hard to fully comprehend. Check it out! via So what do you think? Are we full? Let us know in the comments.del.icio.us tags: infographic, fu-nny, internet, full,&-nbsp;statistics Related articles, courtesy of Zemanta: Fathoming Amazon: 9 Things to Know (Infographic)What Happens In Just 60 Seconds Onl...
By: Bauer-Power
When the internet says...
2011-11-05 23:34:00 When the internet says......I hearAm I doing it right?Whatever this is, I'm not doing it right.broI'm a fucking moron.First world problem!Look at how e-trendy I am!amirite?My mom dropped me on my head. A lot.urI never finished second grade.dat *insert anything here*I'm stupid.I'm so high.It should be legal to murder me.The cake is a lie!Don't mind me, I'll be over here beating this dead horse.OMG!!!I love Justin Beiber and Facebook and Twilight.What a hipster!I'm cool now, right internet? I used the word hipster!Please thumbs up/comment/subscribe! (on youtube)Please give this video a thumbs down because I'm irritating.So there's a brief picture of what I hear when various things are said on the internet. A far as the tables, why the hell not? It's the best way I could think of to lay out the data.My Zazzle Store
ODD FUTURE'S INTERNET
2011-11-03 13:43:00 Syd The Kid (vocals) and Matt Martian (production) are The Internet, the latest sub-group from the rambunctious Odd Future crew. Here's the video for their latest single, "Cocaine." The group just announced their debut album, Purple Naked Ladies, slated for release late 2011. We're listening!
India Proposes A New UN Body To Police The Internet
2011-11-03 08:42:00 India seems to be spearheading the IBSA (India Brazil & South Africa) with a formal proposal submitted for a new UN-based body comprising of 50 members for Internet governance. In a twist of irony, India put it before an existing body, the Internet Governance Forum! India wants a separate entity (under the purview of UN of course) that, “combines the functions of the Internet Governance Forum and some of the revenues of ICANN in a structure that puts governments on top”. It is called the UN Committee for Internet Related Policies (CIRP). The statement submitted by India read “The intent behind proposing a multilateral and multi-stakeholder mechanism, It is not to ‘control the Internet’ or allow Governments to have the last word in regulating the Internet, but to make sure that the Internet is governed not unilaterally, but in an open, democratic, inclusive and participatory manner, with the participation of all stakeholders, so as to evolve universally acceptable, and...
By: WATblog
You Have To Love The Criminal Element On the Internet!
2011-10-22 00:19:00 It used to be that computer hackers had a certain amount of class about them. The real crown jewels were to be found not in cutting code, but in Social Engineering. Kevin Mitnick was the star, well prepped, there was little that he could not achieve. Alas the hackers of today do not have the ...
Mitt Romney attack ad on Rick Perry that was pulled from the internet VIDEO
2011-10-21 23:32:00 Mitt Romney attack ad on Rick Perry that was pulled from the internet VIDEO.Reportedly pulled following a complaint from CNN regarding the use of the network's clips.VIDEO CREDIT: juddlegumDOTcom
The internet is rapidly running out of addresses
2011-10-19 10:12:00 IP addresses aren't just used for computers; an address gets assigned to every device that accesses the internet (including, for instance, phones and cars). John Curran, president of the American...
By: Light Within
Google Bus Gives The Internet Wheels
2011-09-08 11:15:00 If Google get them a mascot someday, they will probably name it IngenuET (Ingenuity). Every move by them, be it acquisitions or developments, bears the recognizable mark of Google’s innovation. Latest such to make news is the Google Internet Bus. Started in 2009, the Google Internet Bus uses a customized Internet-enabled bus to travels across towns and cities to spread awareness on the usage of Internet and its benefits. The custom-designed bus has five computers with a trainer on each and one video terminal for those who wait for their turn for free- of-cost training. The Internet bus would be in Patna from September 6 to 15. The bus will travel across these towns for 40 days from today. The hour-long training is being provided by NIIT who have joined hands with Google in this caper. Team Google claimed that the bus would reach approximately 2 lakh people during its tour in Bihar. The tour is already accepted as being a success. “The Internet has positively touched the lives o...
By: WATblog
Hughes Communications Brings The Internet To India’s Final Frontiers
2011-08-25 11:04:00 Carrying on with the Government’s endeavor to facilitate India’s e-Commerce story, The Department of Information Technology has awarded Hughes Communications a major contract to connect 2,500 locations through Broadband Internet under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). The contract has been awarded by a special purpose vehicle formed by the CSC e-Governance Services. The government wants to establish over 1 lakh common service centres (CSCs) across the country to enable Internet access in the hinterland. Till date, over 96,000 centres have been set up. The total value budgeted for the IT project at the panchayat level is Rs 2,000 crore. India’s Final Frontiers can now go Online Hughes will enable VSATs terminals in some of the most inaccessible states of India where conventional means of delivering broadband services are not price-effective. Besides, the main objective is to make available broadband access to internet and other digital services over satellite using lates...
By: WATblog
Indian Students To Join The Internet Telescope Project By SPACE
2011-07-20 08:15:00 We all have a deep fascination for the sky and The Internet Telescope Project, spearheaded by SPACE, is now in India, thanks to a collaboration with IASC (International Astronomy Search Collaboration), USA. A Pilot test is being conducted through 16 participants this month. For this one-of-a-kind project, school students were hand picked. The students are to remotely monitor a 16″ Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes located at the Ironwood North Observatory, USA. Through this telescope, they can take pictures of comets, asteroids and galaxies. The pilot is being conducted at the SPACE headquarters in India. 16 student volunteers will monitor the telescope. The students are from schools like Bal Bharati Public School, Pitampura; G.D. Goenka and Indraprastha World School. Here are some of the activities they learnt and were exposed to : For the asteroids and comets, images were taken 1-hour apart then blinked to see the moving object against the fixed background stars. For the ...
By: WATblog
Making a Conference Call via the Internet
2011-06-17 15:12:00 Internet conference calls are becoming really popular in the world of business, because they make communication easier between employees. They can connect people through a conference line, which is actually a server that operates like a speakerphone and can switch numerous calls. New developments in communication technology have made it possible to use functions and features that weren’t there before and of course these features now include web-based solutions as well. It seems that the analog communication systems have reached their technological limits. Voice over IP (VoIP) set-ups have the ability to serve any needs. The possibilities are endless. Think about it: you can make VoIP calls between your different offices and departments and even your home, no matter where you are in the world. Usually this service is absolutely free, except for the cost of the internet network service. With an expensive switchboard (PBX) supply has many functions, and with their ...
Five Ways India’s New IT Laws Will Affect The Internet Industry
2011-05-27 09:52:00 The Economic Times has done a great spread on how exactly the new IT Laws will affect the internet industry. Here are some of the ways the Internet Industry and its arms will be affected and the effect on users, websites and corporates. 1) Statute: Electronic service providers to maintain transactions, receipts, vouchers in specific formats. The records should be produced for inspection and audit by a government nominated agency or person. Government can audit security and privacy protection measures. Effect on Users: A more convenient and secure environment is built as all their transaction data is kept. Effect on Corporates: As they have to keep electronic records of everything, cost for Intermediaries will increase. 2) Statute: Cyber cafes must register with a government appointed agency. They must identify every customer and keep a user record for a year. Computer screens must face the open area of the cafe. Cubicles must not be more than 4.5 ft high. Cafes will be inspected...
By: WATblog
Get ready for the Internet TV in India, courtesy Airtel
2011-03-15 07:24:00 This is interesting. As your television is on its way to play the role of your desktop PC by incorporating the internet and social networking features, your PC is all set to act as your television, by streaming your favorite channels and TV shows, courtesy Airtel. According to the company sources, Airtel is all set to launch its Broadband TV service next week. The Broadband service would allow the users to watch the television channel directly from a channel directory using the internet and a broadband plan, and without the need of any external hardware device such as an STB or a TV Tuner Card. The service will also work on Wi-Fi networks and Airtel Broad band customers will not be charged for the data consumed in accessing the television content. However, if an Airtel broadband customer accesses Broadband TV on non-Airtel broadband, the data charges will need to be paid. Initially, the service will be launched with 28 live, 19 video on demand (VoD) channels and 12 movies, all at R...
By: WATblog
Let's All Take Over the Internet with Adopted Pets
2011-03-15 00:54:00 Pet expert and dog and cat behavior consultant Steve Dale writes about Petfinder.com's taking over the Internet with pet adoptions photos and stories on March 15, and posts a picture of his Petfinder.com dog, Ethel
The Internet Radio Project - Introduction
2011-03-03 18:46:00 One of the not so secret projects I'm working on is the development of a streaming Internet radio station.I am fortunate to live in a city with nearly eighty AM and FM radio stations. The sad truth is that most of them flat out suck. There was a time when radio was a very happening place. DJ's selected all their music, played what they wanted, so long as it fit in with the overall format of the station. Listeners would tune in to get the latest news and hear newest records by their favorite artists. Not anymore. A handful of large conglomerates own the vast majority of radio stations, especially in the larger markets. Now when you drive across country...
Let the internet parent your child
2011-02-24 01:35:00 Should you throw the baby out with the bath water? Parenting can be so confusing, can’t it? One ‘expert’ says one thing and then another ‘expert’ says the opposite. Fracas would never really tell you to let the internet parent … Continue reading →
By: fracas
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
2011-02-14 22:16:00 The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains is a comprehensive discussion of the effects of modern technology on modern thought, packed with information all too often glossed over or ignored in our quest for more and more efficient computing, networking, and information retrieval. This is not a hollow lamentation from a hysterical Luddite yearning for the past, but a detailed, scientific journey through the landscape of the mind.The Internet is an exciting and distracting place, an entrancement into which it is far too easy to fall and from which it is far too difficult to extricate oneself. Carr noticed that as he spent more time online, he was less able to focus on anything. Other academics noted that their dependence on the Internet resulted in a loss of their ability to read long pieces of text. The digital age promised to provide us access to the information that would make us smarter, but more and more users report that they feel scatterbrained, unable to concentrat...
By: In-the-Weird
How Egypt Cut Off the Internet
2011-02-04 23:05:00 The Basics of an Internet ConnectionOn the simplest of levels, your computer connects to the internet through an internet service provider (ISP) TeData, LinkDotNet.. etc. Your service provider then either connects directly to all the other internet service providers around the world or to a larger internet service provider that then connects to all the others.When you open up your web browser and type a domain name into the address bar, say google.com, for instance your service provider sends a lightning-quick request to whichever service provider Time.com uses to make its web pages publicly available on the internet.The computer that holds all of google.com's web pages sends a response back through its internet service provider basically saying, "Here's the web page you requested."The Border Gateway ProtocolIn order for ISPs to establish broader connections between the computers on their networks and the rest of the computers on the internet, traffic is routed through the Border ...
By: Foo bar Lab
Rejection from the internet
2011-01-18 01:54:00 Can you really even call it rejection if you didn't actually hit on the guy in the first place?
CAMERAS ACROSS THE INTERNET
2011-01-14 08:47:00 As the proliferation of The Internet continues, so does the access to many of the private camera feeds connected to it. According to reports, more and more internet-linked feeds are unknowingly accessible to almost anyone in the world. Many of them, as easy as a Google search away! The lesson here, use discretion and install IP security, of course!
Will Women Drive The Future Of The Internet?
2010-12-30 09:00:00 Business Insider has an interesting report on how women are possibly spearheading the internet today. It has made a revelation, which none of us might have even considered in our wildest thoughts. Well it goes this way. Over the past three years, we have seen three internet startups gaining big momentum in the face of the ever expanding horizons of internet. Yes, we are talking about Gilt Groupe, Zynga and Groupon. As none of us had expected, these three sites have majority of their visitors as women. Sounds silly? Read on. A Part of the Game Gilt Groupe is a fashion site that provides invitation-only access to highly coveted products and experiences at insider prices. So, it inevitably attracts glamorous women, who are always on the lookout for trendy fashionable items at throw away prices. On the other hand, Zynga, as we all know has grown up by leaps and bounds in terms of its revenues due to its popular games on Facebook. Most of the FarmVille and CityVille users are bored house...
By: WATblog
Will Chinese Overtake English To Become The Internet’s ‘First&r
2010-12-24 09:30:00 Will it? Well TNW Asia seems to think so. And they give it just 5 years to do so. Heres a look at how they arrived at that. China added 36 million Internet users last year – according to Internet World Stats. Significantly less than the reported 120 million it added in 2009. Nevertheless that takes the tally to around 440 million internet users. And the Internet penetration rate is just a little 33%. It is already the second most popular language with 22.6% of Internet users, trailing only English which is at 27.3 percent. If you take into account the reported average penetration in ‘English Speaking’ Countries which is pegged at 42%, TNW Asia claims that China has much more room to grow. If you extrapolate the current trend, it should take 3 years. And if you take into account some other factors, it may take 5 years? Convinced? I’m not. Some very important factors have conveniently not been considered, one of which is a ‘tiny little country with a mod...
By: WATblog
DLA Consultation: The Internet Responds.
2010-12-08 09:45:00 Yesterday, Where's the Benefit? posted Broken of Britain's response to the DLA reform consultation, and today I am going to try to read the government's consultation document itself.Other disability blogs and websites have already done some great posts on this subject, and I wanted to draw attention to some of what is being said around the interwebz on the reform proposals.Fighting Monsters writes From DLA to PIP - a consultation begins.Arbitrary Constant writes DLA Reform Consultation: Great Expectations, Worst Apprehensions.communitycare.co.-uk write DLA claimants to miss out in benefits shake-up.Disability Alliance write Government announces cuts to disabled people's support as "new test".Left Foot Forward writes Supporting Disabled People Not Sustainable says Coalition.Disabled People Against Cuts have a cartoon entitled Don't worry when we want your opinion we'll tell you what it is.I don't know whether I'll be able to make my way through reading the consultation documen...
Wisdom of the Crowd? And the Internet!
2010-12-06 12:35:00 (Disclaimer: The author of this article is aware of the umpteen advantages of Crowdsourcing and how it has revolutionized the web and in many ways our lives. The purpose of this post is to draw the readers’ attention to its limitation.) It was in ancient Greece that the world saw perhaps one of the earliest instances of utilizing the wisdom of the crowd. Today we call it democracy. Even though the free world accepts it as the best form of the Government, many would concede that it is far from perfect and fraught with weaknesses. Which brings me to the point of this post – and the other best known instance of the ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’ - crowd sourcing/user generated content. Crowd sourcing has 2 avatars. First, where you rely on the mass participation to add value individually – like a volunteer drive or contributors to an open source project. Second, where mass participation makes a collective decision. This collective decision comes to be accepted as conventional wi...
By: WATblog
Juan Carlos Portillo,Christian Zwettler: the power of the internet #2
2010-11-14 12:53:00 A New Era-Christian Zwettler/Juan Carlos Portillo (Mananero Funk)
Juan Carlos Portillo,Fabiano Rodriguo: the power of the internet
2010-11-03 23:56:00 Apenas conversando-Fabiano Rodriguo/Juan Carlos Portillo
Flowchart: How to Explain the Internet to a Street Urchin, Circa 1835
2010-10-29 16:13:00 From Neatorama: So, you've used a time machine to travel back to the London of 1835. You encounter Oliver, an impoverished street urchin of 12 years of age. For some reason, you've decided to explain to him what the Internet is. How do you proceed? Comedian and graphic designer
Has the Internet Changed the Way We Think?
2010-10-27 14:52:00 The alphabet, printing press, and clock shaped the way we think. Now computer games, social networking, and surfing the web occupy hours of our daily lives. These activities encourage the rapid collection of small pieces of information from a wide variety of sources. Some would say it also discourag
2 Billion – Number Of Users Using The Internet By End Of 2010
2010-10-20 05:40:00 Internet has come a long way. Actually, that is quite an understatement. Our world today pretty much revolves around the internet. From business, to keeping in touch with family and friends, to shopping, we are pretty much doing everything on the internet. So it hardly comes as a surprise that a recent report by the Internet Telecommunication Union (ITU) has revealed that internet will cross 2 billion users by the end of this year. The report Surprisingly, according to the report, out of the 226 million new internet users in 2010, 162 will be from developing countries. In spite of this, only 21% of the developing countries will be online as compared to 71% of the developed nations. Here is how much the different regions will have seen internet penetration by the end of the year. Europe – 65% Americas – 55% Asia-Pacific – 21.9% Africa – 9.6% Contribution of mobile revolution According to ITU broadband will be a key factor in increasing the internet penetrat...
By: WATblog
Senator Charles Grassley Is No Friend To The Internet
2010-10-01 18:53:00 From Bad to Worse Senator Charles Grassley has repeatedly failed to sponsor Net Neutrality legislation that would guarantee you, not your internet service provider, decide which websites you can visit. His latest stunning move however, makes you long for the days when he simply turned his back on defending your internet rights. Senator Grassley ...
By: Blawg IT
Stop the Internet Blacklist!
2010-09-28 02:52:00 Via Demand Progress...Just the other day, President Obama urged other countries to stop censoring the Internet. But now the United States Congress is trying to censor the Internet here at home. A new bill being debated this week would have the Attorney General create an Internet blacklist of sites that US Internet providers would be required to block.This is the kind of heavy-handed censorship you'd expect from a dictatorship, where one man can decide what web sites you're not allowed to visit. But the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to pass the bill this week -- and Senators say they haven't heard much in the way of objections! That's why we need you to sign our urgent petition to Congress demanding they oppose the Internet blacklist.To read the rest and sign the petition, click here.My Zazzle Store
News: 30 most outrageous guitars on the Internet
2010-09-12 12:26:00 Check out the thirty most outrageous guitars on the internet http://www.musicradar.com/news/-guitars/the-14-most-outrageous--guitars-on-the-internet-198301-
He Broke The Internet Again?
2010-08-30 18:41:00 Being away recently, in the course of trying to catch up with what’s been happening at the blogs of some of you fraccers out there, fracas was alarmed at the mayhem that seems to have taken over in her absence. … Continue reading →
By: fracas
Thanks for making me hate the internet, Internet Guy
2010-08-20 23:19:00 So I just had a real fun exchange with a guy (on freaking facebook of all places) with a guy pretty much accused me of needing counseling to deal with my sexual attraction to children and then kind of suggesting that I should be in prison maybe. I'm not going to go into the specifics of the argument but suffice it to say that the guy is a) totally wrong b) a complete douchebag c) probably projecting some of his own weird issues onto me. (Just so we're totally clear here, the attraction he was talking about? All made up in his head. He wasn't remarking on something I actually did, he was just making stuff up and then slamming me for it.) Sometimes I float along thinking the internet is a nice, cozy, happy place. It's like a beautiful house that you're comfortable in and that you love and then you look over in the corner and there's a crazy person shitting on your brand new rug and even though you try to ignore it, it's A LOT of shit and you just ...
By: Problem Girl
Amusing Interview Of Antoine Dodson That Rocked The Internet? Plus The Remi
2010-08-10 10:39:00 Huntsville, North Alabama - On July 28, an early morning attack took place in this quiet town that almost victimized a young woman. An attacker climbed and broke in the second floor window of Kelly Dodson's home... Fortunately, her brother Antoine Dodson, rushed in to help her and fought off the attacker... Got interviewed. Gone viral. And now, Antoine Dodson became an internet sensation with more than 4 million viewers are watching his videos and counting... Click here to watch the videos...
By: SnitchCentral
Women Shaping Up – The Internet
2010-08-09 14:44:00 Last month, we reported how a study showed that women preferred social networking over shopping. Now comScore has come up with a study on how women are shaping the internet. Women spending time on social networking sites is not really much of a surprise to be honest. I know some girls who like to check their Facebook or Twitter every 10-15 minutes. But what this new study does show, which is something very interesting, is how women are actually utilizing the web more ways than men are. The study is divided into seven categories so I would like to go the same way as well: 1. The Gender Divide Women lose out to men when it comes to the overall percentage online but this can be attributed to developing countries where internet has not achieved much penetration. But the women who have access are said to be more connected than men. My Take: If they mean time by “connected”, are we really surprised? 2. Women And the Social Web Men and women alike are attracted to the internet...
By: WATblog
Upside down view of the Internet
2010-08-09 14:00:00 Sight seen on the CTA #205 Chicago/Golf bus:Guy viewing his laptop with the monitor portion on his lap, as he surfed with keyboard against his chest.Yes, just a little odd....
ChicagoNow Radio Weekly Wager: Alex Loses, Amy And the Internet Win
2010-08-03 18:22:00 So yeah, I hate losing bets. I only bet if I think I'm going to win. So I felt pretty confident going into our most recent Weekly Wager (audio available on wgnradio.com right here). Amy and I both asked our moms, "What's the worst thing I ever did as a kid?" We wrote our answers down in advance to prevent cheating. |
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