Thursday, October 30, 2008
I have a Facebook account. I created the account about five or six years ago because I had read about Facebook while reading materials for my Internet law course. Social networking/Web 2.0 was the new thing and I wanted to understand it. Viewing the site required creating an account, limited at the time to those [...]
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The Christian Science Monitor announced yesterday that it will abandon its daily print edition to offer daily coverage only online (Christian Science Monitor to exit daily print business). It is the first national newspaper to do so. This news comes a few days after the Boston Globe’s latest restyling, which simplified the layout and offloaded [...]
Two stories caught my attention this week. The first (see here and here) concerns two Dutch teenagers convicted for “virtual theft” and sentenced to a total 360 hours of community service for pressuring another teenager to transfer a virtual amulet and virtual mask to their account in the game RuneScape. The court reasoned that the [...]
Monday, September 29, 2008
This article from cnet–Net neutrality: An American problem? presents the views of three executives from Australian ISPs who argue that net neutrality is a problem of the typical U.S. ISP unlimited-use business model, not bandwidth. (The article defines net neutrality as opposition to the practice of ISPs to tier or establish priorities for content). Their [...]
Thursday, August 14, 2008
I’m lying on my back to nurse a sore hip. I opened my phone for amusement and saw the Wordpress app. I opened the app, spent 30 seconds setting it up and voilà! I’m couch-blogging. I’ve not decided whether this is progress.
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I’m not the only one who is underwhelmed by Cuil (”cool”–the name by itself is trouble), the new search engine that says it is “faster,” “bigger,” and “better” than Google. This from today’s Globe: “[B]y the end of the site’s first day, many bloggers and journalists seemed to have found something to dislike, whether it [...]
Last year Comcast slowed BitTorrent traffic on its network because, it said, BitTorrent file transfers consumed inordinate bandwidth. Advocacy groups Free Press and Public Knowledge complained about the practice to the F.C.C., presenting one of the first legal challenges to violation of the principals of net neutrality, the concept that all Internet traffic should be [...]
There’s news today about Cuil–pronounced “cool”–a new search engine created by former Google techies. Based on my comparison so far I’m not ready to replace “google that” with “cuil that” in my lexicon. I searched <david randall blog> with both Google and Cuil. Google returned “A Foolish Consistency” as its fourth item–a surprising result, actually. [...]
Terrific front-page story in today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) titled In “Afghanistan, Getting to Know the Neighbors is Half the Battle” which describes the crucial role of combat troops in getting to know, and being able to work with, local leaders and tribal factions. It begins:
After 15 months in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, [...]
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