Tag: Internet
Please Make That Story Disappear
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Sun Aug 17, 2008 at 09:50:53 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Shakespear Feyissa is learning a few lessons. Lesson one is that your actions can have unintended consequences. Lesson two, once something gets reported on the internet, it's awfully tough to expunge. Feyissa, a practicing Seattle lawyer, says something that happened over ten years ago is causing him pain and anguish because it can easily be googled. He says the original controversy blew over, so how about deleting that report? Problem being that the report in question is in a school newspaper archive. And the student journalists say once reported, forever archived
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How Do You Browse?
port1080.
Posted to SciTech on Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 01:13:00 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
The last week has seen major new releases from two of the "big big four" web browsers. Firefox 3 was released Tuesday, June 17th, while Opera 9.5 was released last Thursday, June 12th (both have been released in beta form for a number of months).
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Time Warner broadband: know your limits.
HidingFromGoro.
Posted to Business on Fri Jun 06, 2008 at 01:56:00 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Time Warner has been talking about moving to a business model of metered broadband with monthly caps, and it starts today, 5 June 08. The choices are either $29.95/month for 768Kbps with a 5GB cap or $54.90/month for 15Mbps with a 40GB cap. Overage charges are $1 per GB on both plans.
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The Brand Name Rorschach Test
MayorBob.
Posted to Media on Fri May 16, 2008 at 06:36:25 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Noah Brier seems to have a thing about "marketing, media, technology and randomness." He earns his keep as a strategist at Naked Communications. He also operates his own blog which represents his personal projects. A recently launched project of his seems quite simple. However, it offers profound insight into the impact of branding and brands. It is basically a Rorschach test for brand names.
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Telephony, what's your choice?
skeeter1.
Posted to Etcetera on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:28:57 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
There have been some articles about how cellphone service is surpassing land-line service. I have both, but I like having a land-line connection, "just in case" (and that's my internet connection, like it or not). There are also Blackberries and gobs of other communication methods.
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Black Tuesday: The Rise (and Fall) of a Former Online Empire
pO157.
Posted to Business on Thu Oct 18, 2007 at 11:07:51 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
AOL (or America Online) used to be the tie that bound personal Internet users together. Now it is tightening its belt in massive layoffs and pondering how to redefine itself as a company.
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Shall we Try Again? COPA Ruled Unconstitutional
Thalia.
Posted to Legal on Fri Mar 23, 2007 at 08:56:55 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Congress' fourth attempt at regulating Internet porn because we need to "think of the children" has been ruled unconstitutional. COPA (Child Online Protection Act), a 1998 federal law that makes it a crime for commercial Web site operators to allow children access to "harmful" material was challenged almost immediately after it was passed. An injunction was issued almost immediately, and the law has never been enforced. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2004 upheld a temporary injunction the district court had issued early in the case that blocked the law from ever taking effect.
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The US Government -- Still A Black Hole For Online Records.
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 12:43:34 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
An open and transparent government is another of those motherhood goals -- just like freedom and democracy. One way of ensuring openness and transparency in government operations is to require federal agencies to make available to the public as much of the information and records these agencies hold in their files. For over 40 years, the public has been guaranteed access to most government records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). But, the FOIA has always been a paper-laden process and this is the computer age. So, Congress thought the internet could be leveraged to ensure records would be posted and accessible to the public. It did this by passing a set of amendments to the FOIA called the Electronic Freedom of Information Act (E-FOIA) directing federal agencies to post as many unclassified records to their agency web sites. Ten years later, the effort directed by E-FOIA can only be termed a failure.
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Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink, Say No More
tomc.
Posted to Etcetera on Sun Feb 18, 2007 at 05:55:23 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
What is it with winking? It's a universal gesture, even though it means different things in different cultures. It can be flirty. It can be complicitous. It can be a simple yet silent acknowledgment. It can be friendly. It can be dirty. It is used by politicians and priests. It is used by men and women. Some children have no problem winking - other children have to practice. Alot.
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The End Of Broadcast TV? Watch Now & Get Joost About It.
port1080.
Posted to SciTech on Sun Jan 21, 2007 at 06:11:52 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
In competing announcements last week, two heavyweights have joined the battle to bring television content to the Internet. Netflix has announced that it will be rolling out a new service called Watch Now, that will sell movies and television shows online, and the founders of the wildly successful Skype service have unveiled a new service titled Joost (pronounced "juiced"), for broadcasting streaming programming across the 'net.
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Get Out Your Short Term Crystal Balls And Tell Us What's Up In 2007.
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Thu Dec 14, 2006 at 08:37:55 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The Economist puts on its clairvoyance cap and offers its best guess at what's coming round the bend at us in 2007. Some of this stuff is premium content (and perhaps someone with a subscription can let us in on what the magazine had to say about France after Chirac, quo vadis Iraq, and why the Hezbollah-Israeli war of 2006 might have profound implications for Israel in 2007. But, a lot of the articles are free and they say that 2007 will still be all about Bush, when it's not about mafias or the web as a serial killer.
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Smile, You're On Candid Lecture
MayorBob.
Posted to Business on Fri Nov 17, 2006 at 12:41:14 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Should you have a right to conduct your daily business without having to worry about your picture being taken or, worse yet, have streaming video of you at your desk posted to the internet? Would you get upset if something like that happened to you and the picture taker decided to add his or her editorial comments about you and what you were doing? But, you're protected from that by the laws of slander or libel, you might say. Well, you might be if you knew who did it but, if you're a college professor, you might not. An internet site which allows students to rate their professors anonymously is calling for students to take candid photos of profs to be posted to the site.
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