The ongoing Chinese crackdown against Internet porn now includes the government working with the two top search engines in the country to restrict the use of keywords. Top Chinese search engine Baidu has revealed that they’ve barred 40,000 keywords after it was established that 70 percent of Chinese Web surfers used this search engine (plus Google) to search for information. Baidu told the Chinese state news agency Xinhua that barring the 40,000 keywords will effectively block about...
Internet Resources For Rural Australians The internet is a rapidly growing presence in rural Australia, and apart from it's obvious applications for entertainment, education and communication, it also has many tools available to support rural Australians. Far from being a 'global' resource with no real local applications, the internet is now a virtual goldmine of up to date agricultural developments, land and farming issues, property advice, and support for rural families and their assoc...
Dr. Doug Davis, Professor of Social Sciences at Haverford College in Philadelphia, has introduced a course reviewing “self-expression on the internet”, with special attention being paid to blogging. Hopeful of encouraging his students to produce self-expressive, motivated papers, Dr. Davis plans to divide classes into groups to form manually-linked individual weblogs to share personal experiences, as well as to review and discuss course related texts. Included in the subjects are an intr...
by stefanie olsen. staff writer, cnet news.com . Link software developer dave winer disabled roughly 3,000 web logs from his former company this weekend, a move that drew sharp criticism from some people in the publishing community. winer, a champion of blogging and the publishing format really simple syndication (rss), said in an interview that he had to move the web logs, or blogs, to his personal server from userland, a software company he founded in 1998 and left two years a...
i am not a fan of the "three lines and a link" post, but every so often something catches my attention that i just have to share. this link is to the dullest blog in the world . and it is. it really is. it's so boring it's like watching paint dry. (why that makes it so riveting i'll never know, but it is ). so, without further do, i present to you "the dullest blog in the world" Link enjoy. or something.
there exists, according to the world weekly news, an astrophysicist by the name of dr paul winterhoof who believes that extra-terrestrials have utilised "the satellite transmissions that connect computers on the internet” to make email contact with the human race for the purposes of initiating sexual contact . (if he is right, then the influx of “untraceable” porn spam that currently clogs millions of email inboxes the world over may not solely be blamed on your garden-variety scary n...
welcome to the cranky old woman’s' internet dictionary ... or should i say dicktionary ?. doubtless this will help you navigate the brave new world of the internet, and still keep yourself nice badmin - (bad-min): any reactionary or nasty article/post directed at any site admin solely because they don't agree with everything you say. blahketing - (blah-kerr-ting): annoying tendency of some bloggers to make a comment in someone elses' article as a marketing tool ...