Excellent advice from Old Holborn, in a comment on Guido Fawkes’ story about the departure of the wholly unlamented McBride. It is numbered 569 (there are quite a few):
To the many people out there who are reading this or any blog for the first time.
This is what one voice on one blog can do.
You too [...]
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The more, the merrier
Posted in internet, tagged blogging on 11 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Germany saves Australia from the internet hate machine
Posted in internet, tagged censorship on 11 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Via Slashdot, Wikileaks reports that the German government has suppressed its domain in that country.
Apparently this, and a police search of the domain sponsor’s home, was triggered by Wikileaks’ decision to publish the supposedly secret Australian list of banned websites.
It seems that the German government acted on this without having been asked to do so [...]
Invasions of privacy
Posted in internet, tagged Google Street View on 9 April, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Absolutely nothing in the Telegraph about IKB’s birthday. Damnable.
However, there was this, which describes how a Google Street View camera operator was so outraged that a photographer took pictures of his surveillance car that he resorted to shouting at the photographer and demanding that his pictures be censored.
The photographer is quoted as saying that this [...]
Catastrophe theory
Posted in internet, tagged blogging, copyright on 8 April, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It says in The Register that
News agency the Associated Press (AP) has said it will start taking action against internet publishers who use its material without paying for it or without sharing earnings… Some news organisations have long resented the use of their material by news aggregators such as Google News.
Google?
“That’s what they are. Scum.”
[Derek [...]
Schadenfreude
Posted in internet, tagged Google Street View on 2 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am filled with delicious schadenfreude to see that Google are reported by the Telegraph as having had a few difficulties persuading people to submit to the company’s new commercial surveillance scheme:
Residents of an affluent village formed a human chain to prevent Google from taking pictures of their homes amid fears the images could be [...]
It’s just a game, a stupid game
Posted in internet, tagged Second Life on 31 March, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I am beginning to think that Sadville (as it is known elsewhere) is having a regrettable effect upon the critical faculty of the famous Tom Paine:
The British government has established an “innovations centre” in Second Life… or what it’s worth, I think the government is right to explore the possibilities of using Second Life for [...]
Why oh why oh why
Posted in internet on 24 March, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It says in The Register that
The concern is that Google is gradually expanding the already vast array of data it stores on each individual web surfer – data it could be coughed up after a Google hack or the arrival of a subpoena or national security letter. DoubleClick’s ad serving technology is collecting surf data [...]
No worries
Posted in internet, tagged Australia, censorship on 19 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From Boing Boing:
Wikileaks has published the secret list of sites blocked by Australia’s state-sponsored parental filter…
The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is quoted thus:
“This week saw Australia joining China and the United Arab Emirates as the only countries censoring Wikileaks.”
It is not difficult to divine the sort of thing that the Australian government is [...]
Things are seldom what they seem
Posted in internet, tagged blogging on 11 March, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Curious piece by Bella Gerens about the internet being a feminist issue. Or not, as the case may be.
I think that this is rather a shame. People who start off what they have to say with ‘Speaking as a [label]…’ are rather a shame in themselves, and I suppose it was inevitable that it would [...]
