Watching the BBC and Alaks Krotoski’s take on the “internet” is an interesting experience whilst not to bad for a guardian tech journalist. The program has some… Read more “The Virtual Revolution – The Internet Tankies Version of History”
Category: Internet
Buying Votes on Digg
Annalee Newlitz has an article in this months wired about an experiment she did in buying her way onto the front page of Digg a popular and… Read more “Buying Votes on Digg”
More Baffled Judges
Looks like a Belgium court has join’d the Brazilians in not understanding the internet. In a case recently, they upheld an injunction against Google in Belgium for… Read more “More Baffled Judges”
Daniela Cicarelli Video
Interestingly its not only Belgian courts that have inflated ideas of their importance. A number of sources report that “A Brazilian court has ordered the closure of… Read more “Daniela Cicarelli Video”
Wireless Lan Course
For something new to do in the evening’s i’me taking a couple of CISCO courses on wireless networking at the local college. The first one is the… Read more “Wireless Lan Course”
WOW Guild Blog
Decided to create a WOW Guild blog mainly as a resource for tracking the Oposing hoard players that are taking the piss and repeatedly killing lowlevel players… Read more “WOW Guild Blog”
Dunn is Dunn
Looks like the scandel of the Hacking incident at HP has claimed its first victim – the chair has anounced that she is steping down in Jan… Read more “Dunn is Dunn”
War Rocketing
This has been one of the most interesting things I have seen for along while – the practice of driving around with a laptop and suitable software to… Read more “War Rocketing”
Bruce Schneier Facts
In a twist on the Chuck Norris Facts meme some enterprising crypto geek has done a Bruce Schneier Facts site with such gems as … “Bruce Schneier was… Read more “Bruce Schneier Facts”
Speeding Up Joomla
Joomla (an OS CMS) is not my favorite piece of software to work with – and out of the box runs like a dog. I have been… Read more “Speeding Up Joomla”
dooced in france
An Interesting story that I found via scobels site. An Expat working for a UK company in Paris got fired allegedly for writing a blog. They seem… Read more “dooced in france”
Over 14% PPC Bogus
The issue of PPC fraud has been gaining publicity recently. PPC Fraud what is it. PPC frauds work by people either repeatedly clicking ads hosted on their… Read more “Over 14% PPC Bogus”
Irrepressible Info
An interesting new online campaign from Amnesty International (uk) which aims to get people to publish (adsense or amazon afiliate style) snipets from banned websites as away… Read more “Irrepressible Info”
Net Neutrality
One of the most sensible coments on net nutrality i have seen has come from Sir Tim Beners Lee here My personal take its the incumbant operators and… Read more “Net Neutrality”