(Image via Wikipedia) Pakistan is currently blocking the popular Facebook page: “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” The page is encouraging Facebook users to post their own images of the prophet on May 20. The site was put up as a protest against radical Muslims who threatened the creators of “South Park” for depicting Muhammad in an [...]
(Image by Great Beyond via Flickr) A British computer game retailer says that it now owns ‘the souls’ of 7,500 online customers. The company inserted the following “immortal soul clause” into their terms and conditions contract: “By placing an order via this Web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year [...]
Image via Wikipedia The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 5-0 on Thursday to begin proceedings on formulating new Internet regulations. The pretense for FCC involvement revolves around a concern for providing some kind of so-called ‘net neutrality rules’ to even the playing field for different ISP providers. However, some are concerned that this is like [...]
I am in Las Vegas today and will be attending some of the BlogWorld events—the Keynotes for sure and the Exhibit floor. However, unfortunately I am also here on business so have a couple of things that I must do for my regular job also. I look forward to the encouragement and new stuff I [...]
(Image by StephenMitchell via Flickr) A new bill has been introduced in Congress addressing ‘Cyberbullying’- H.R. 1966. The dangerous part is the unforeseen ways the bill may ultimately be used by authorities and interpreted by activist judges in the future. The ‘Cyberbullying’ bill revolves around using the Internet in particular—email, blogs instant messaging, websites, text [...]
A couple of weeks ago I noticed that this blog and all of the Answers For The Faith blogs were taking forever (30 seconds) to load and at other times not at all. At first I attributed it to a possible database attack like I had experienced early last year. After checking all my databases, [...]
By Ben Norman (Southam,UK: Computer Step, In Easy Steps series, 2007, 192 pages) This is a valuable introduction to Google. All of the Google tools and services are mentioned and examples are given on how to sign up, set up,and use Google stuff. Also, Google SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a major focus of the [...]
