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Berkeley scientists work scrap metal for Darfur

Berkeley scientists work scrap metal for DarfurPictures?Put a little work into the story. Where are the pictures? You have a half page of ads, its sad you cant even put in one small picture.Mozilla Adblock ONBrowse without ads! http://adblockplus.org/en/I thought I would throw that in.KieranMullen

Tags: Darfur, Berkeley

Discussion threads 2007-08-13

Sat photos help human rights work in Darfur

Sat photos help human rights work in DarfurThe uses are mind boggling......Colin Powell should have been informed. He could have showed us the WMDs.

Tags: Darfur, photograph

Discussion threads 2007-06-07

Images: Museum mashup shows Darfur destruction

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum released a Google Earth layer today designed to raise awareness on the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Tags: Darfur, Google Earth, mashup, Google Inc.

Image galleries 2007-04-10

Time Magazine celebrates you and Web 2.0. Why?

Time Magazine celebrates you and Web 2.0. Why?Considering the value we generate...... - according to Donna Bogatin - this is more than reasonable.See my small cartoon:http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2006/12/the_most_valuab.htmlBye,OliverI called this in OctoberAt the risk of being too self-promotional, I made just this prediction in early October.You and DarfurI think 'You' is a...

Tags: Government, Darfur, Web 2.0, Time Magazine, Web

Discussion threads 2006-12-17

Additional Resources

How a student fooled the world's media

How a student fooled the world's mediaDid you use Wikipedia as a source on this? You have an error ...The Wikipedia article originally said that Shane Fitzgerald attended "Dublin University", which within Wikipedia redirects to "University of Dublin" ... which as of this edit is where you are showing...

Tags: Wiki, Advertising & Promotion, Wikipedia, media

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

How a student fooled the world's media

On the 28th March, Shane Fitzgerald who studies at the University of Dublin, began an experiment which could put journalism into disrepute, by faking a quote on Wikipedia and measuring the spread across the world's media outlets. Maurice Jarre, a famous French composer, died in late March...

Tags: Journalist, Media, Fake, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-13

USocial CEO: 'We're gaming Digg'

One of the most difficult things to manage about the millions of users on social bookmarking sites Digg, StumbleUpon and del.icio.us is the minority of users who try to "game" voting systems to propel their chosen content to the top of the popularity lists. One company has...

Tags: Digg, USocial, Leon Hill, Games, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-06

I’m sick to death of Windows 7

I’m sick to death of Windows 7Zack, Zack, Zack.....Go lay down with a cold cloth on your head. You'll feel better in just a little while.I am sorry to tell you this, but...... zdnet is not exactly doing anything terribly important. And I imagine if people did not write about...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Obama, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-02-09

I'm sick to death of Windows 7

I feel a bit of a hypocrite to be writing this, but it's got to a point where this just has to stop. I know people are excited about the next version of Windows, but when will you, the international audience, wake up and smell the coffee? ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Georgia conflict may mean the birth of modern cyber-warfare

Georgia conflict may mean the birth of modern cyber-warfareTaiwanI think an impetus for Red Flag Linux wqas the inability of Beijing to secure Windows against Taiwan, but my memory might be faulty.Cyberwar? You must be kiddind...I thought that word "war" is applicable for some serious events that have catastrophic consequences...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Hacking, Saakashvili

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

Microsoft readies 'Albany' subscription trial for consumers

Microsoft readies 'Albany' subscription trial for consumersStill, WAY too many features. Google is in a much better position herewith a feature set appropriate for new connected, everything sharable world. All of those old baroque complicated features for formatting on 8.5x11 are looking more stupid every day.I recommend trying the offline...

Tags: OpenOffice, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., subscription trial, Microsoft Ready, Microsoft Office, offline feature

Discussion threads 2008-04-18

New+majority+loses+nerve+on+net+neutrality

New+majority+loses+nerve+on+net+neutralityI think this should be handled through ICANNThey say.. if you try to impose restriction on websites that you do not host, we terminate your name associations and IP blocks.Problem solved.In its current form.. net neutraility does more harm than good. Any restrictions other than the ones blocking monopolies...

Tags: Web site development, INTERNET, Net Neutrality, Web site, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-02-13

Report: Hollywood giants sue Chinese Internet site

Report: Hollywood giants sue Chinese Internet siteHollywood giants sue Chinese Internet siteHow do these sites get the movies in the first place? Shouldn't the studios go after the people who upload instead? In my opinion, if it's available free on the internet then it should be a free...

Tags: Chinese Internet site, Chinese Internet

Discussion threads 2007-11-22

If kids don't have electricity, will a laptop change their lives?

If kids don't have electricity, will a laptop change their lives?Children Between Two Rocks and a Hard PlaceI am betting that the OLPC will be the spark that sets their imaginations on fire and symbolize hope for a chance at having a better life.Let's keep that hope going. That's...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2007-10-12

Sat images show village burning, relocation in Burma

Satellite images show that the government of Burma -- which it calls Myanmar -- has been destroying villages and relocating people in the countryside over the past year, The Washington Post reports. The American Association for the Advancement of Science reported that images collected over the past year...

Tags: Satellite, Image, Relocation, Network Technology, Networking, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-28

In Burma, the revolution is being YouTube-d

Some 33 years ago, author and poet Gil Scott-Heron uttered his famous words, "the revolution will not be televised." Well, here we are in 2007 and few if any "revolutions" are being televised. But as for being streamed and distributed...

Tags: Revolution, Video, Corporate Communications, Telecommunications, Marketing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-27

Bank of India site hijacked, launching exploits

Bank of India site hijacked, launching exploitsIs it patched/fixed yet?You seem to have left that information out. I'm guessing that Bank of India has been informed.Ryan, why no informationLook, this is a tech web site and readers want to know what TECH the bank is using. IE. What...

Tags: Financial services, BOI, bank, Bank of India

Discussion threads 2007-08-30

Redistricting politics - gamer-style

It's not exactly the World of Warcraft, but a group of game developers at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center hope to get a few high-schoolers hooked on an game that sends a message about the world of politics,reports the Washington Post.Although the name could use a polish, The...

Tags: State &, Local Govt, Elections

Blog posts 2007-06-12

Sat photos help human rights work in Darfur

In an unusual effort to publicize human-rights violations, Amnesty International is launching a new website that uses high-resolution satellite cameras to post images of threatened villages in the Darfur region of Sudanreports the Associated Press."We're hoping that by shining a light that we will deter the abuse from ever happening,"...

Tags: Government technology

Blog posts 2007-06-06

Renegade spam fighter returns to game Digg, YouTube

Almost exactly a year after an intense botnet denial-of-service attack destroyed the renegade Blue Frog anti-spam service, the Israeli programmers are back and you won't believe what they're up to.Eran Reshef, the Israeli entrepreneur who lost his battle with an organized spam ring background from Wired and SecurityFocus, has launched...

Tags: Browsers, Botnets, Google, Passwords, Piracy, Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Vulnerability research

Blog posts 2007-05-17