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On eve of Tianamen anniversary, China blocks Twitter, Flickr, Bing

This can't be any surprise. But we will not forget. According to reports, with the 20th anniversary of Tianamen Square China has blocked access to Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and Microsoft's new Bing search engine on a massive scale. And the repression goes beyond...

Tags: China, Flickr, Twitter, Huffington Post, Government, Vertical Industries, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-03

OnHollywood: Kevin Rose--'If they sue us, they sue us'

Digg founder Kevin Rose addressed user revolt at his site during a panel discussion this morning at the AlwaysOn OnHollywood conference.For background, a Digg user posted a HD-DVD hack code, Digg took down the story after receiving a cease and desist letter saying that the encryption key infringed on intellectual...

Tags: Web Technology, Personal Technology, OnHollywood, General

Blog posts 2007-05-02

Huffington Post wants online debate in 08

Huffington Post wants online debate in 08Not the first, welcome to family of e-debate hostsThe first major online candidate debate among presidential candidates was in 2000. See http://www.webwhiteblue.orgAlso, E-Democracy.Org, a non-partisan, non-profit, is working on proposals for a well funded online presidential candidate e-debate based on our successful model deployed...

Tags: Huffington Post

Discussion threads 2007-01-17

Huffington Post to host presidential debates?

Huffington Post to host presidential debates?Not the first, other initiativesThe first major online candidate debate among presidential candidates was in 2000. See http://www.webwhiteblue.orgAlso, E-Democracy.Org, a non-partisan, non-profit, is working on proposals for a well funded online presidential candidate e-debate based on our successful model deployed most recently in Minnesota Gubernatorial...

Tags: Huffington Post

Discussion threads 2007-01-17

Huffington Post wants online debate in 08

The Huffington Post is inviting presdential candidates to an online debate - an Internet first, Reuters reports. "2008 is going to be critical, in terms of the coverage of the election," founder Arianna Huffington said. "We are working to put together the first primary online debate among...

Tags: Government technology, Elections, Web, online debate, Huffington Post

Blog posts 2007-01-12

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Don't cry for me Joe Lieberman

the patriots are rising against the socialist billThe Obamacare is gasping for air while the liberals are preparing to be booted out of the congress in 2010.The real Americans have risen again and upheld the values of the founding fathers against dangerous foreign socialist ideeas.End Socialism Now!Enough with the Commissar's...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Obamacare, patriot, socialist, socialism, reconciliation, Joe Lieberman

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

WSJ chief criticizes news aggregators - creators carry cost burden

Hat tip to Danny Sullivan for pointing out the above panel at Web 2.0 Summit, which featured Robert Thomson, Wall Street Journal chief, and Marrissa Mayer head of search products at Google, plus Martin Nisenholtz, The New York Times Company, and Eric Hippeau from the Huffington Post, moderated by...

Tags: Google Inc., Wall Street Journal, Journalist, Thomson Corp., Internet, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-10-23

A single national market for health care

health care should wait untill we get rid of the liberals in the governmentonce the Democrats are no longer in power we could start talking about some real healthcare reform based on tax credits and tort reform.Socialist ideeas like single payer or public option are a non starter.Heaven forbid, a...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Healthcare reform, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Semantic Technology Conference kicks off with Keynotes from Open Calais and Siri

This year's Semantic Technology Conference got fully underway this morning, with Keynote presentations from Tom Tague of Thomson Reuters' Open Calais Initiative and Tom Gruber from Siri. Despite the wider economic situation, attendance for this fifth year of the event feels a little up on last year, and there's...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Tool, Siri, Tom Tague, Tague, Enterprise Adoption, Virtual Personal Assistant, Virtual Personal Assistant Paradigm, Podcasts, Channel Management, Productivity, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-16

The cause of swine flu

The cause of swine fluas I said beforeThe origin of this virus and many others is in the promiscuos way of life of the homosexuals.Church leaders and conservative bloggers saw it comming.Unfortunately Obama does nothing to eradicate the root cause of this disease that is homosexuality, and panders to these...

Tags: antibiotics, H1N1 flu, virus

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Crying Wolff? News As We Knew It Dies -- In 8 Years.

Crying Wolff? News As We Knew It Dies -- In 8 Years.Change is hereThey are going to have to do much better if they want to survive. Look at some of the major financial news events of the last few years. The print news media has been way behind the...

Tags: Blogging, print news media

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

Ice, Swine, and Sun

The last third of BIT's introduction to the Unix and Open Source Culture ran on Friday, February 27th - and drew one comment, a click-by sneering unrelated to the thing's content: The bottom line is ... Sun's SPARC...

Tags: Ice, Sun Microsystems Inc., George, Sea Ice, Junknstuff, Blogging, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Internet, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-07

Regulators: iPhone card counting app a felony (Updated 2x)

I live about 15 miles from Atlantic City and was surprised to see the iPhone land on the front page of our local newspaper this morning, and not in a good way. The AP story "Card Counting iPhone application prompts Nevada to warn casinos" is about an...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Card, Regulator, Nevada, Casino, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Should Recovery.gov be mashup-friendly?

President Obama's $825 billion financial stimulus package is making its way through Congress, and a number of groups are calling for increased transparency in how the proposed spending will be shared with citizens, according to CNET. And in 2009,...

Tags: Web Site, Federal Election Commission, Mashup, Collaboration, Web Site Development, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-27

Where to watch Obama's presidential inauguration online

Washington is about to throw President-elect Barack Obama a $160 million party on Tuesday, January 20 at 11:30 ET, so the least you should do is show up! But for those of us who don't want to bear the incredibly low temperatures of D.C. at this time of year,...

Tags: Webcast, Coverage, Site, Live Streaming, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-16

New FCC chair: tech advisor Genachowski

New FCC chair: tech advisor GenachowskiNeutral? Please!If anyone thinks this man is "neutral" in any way, I invite you to see his cached Facebook page. Of course the real one was probably deleted as soon as he became a potential nominee....http://74.125.45.132/search?q=cache:9hbBDYs000cJ:www.facebook.com/people/Julius-Genachowski/507710242+julius+genachowski&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us&client=firefox-aLook at his friends...Amit Majithia of the now disgraced computer...

Tags: Federal government, FCC, Genachowski, tech advisor, FCC Chair

Discussion threads 2009-01-13

This Recession, The Internet Is More Important Than TV

In past recessions, downcast consumers could still be counted on to come home, plunk down in their chairs and watch TV, to escape from the clutches of economic doldrums. And pay their TV bills, because cable at home was cheaper than going out to the movies....

Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Recession, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-12-11

News to know: Apple and anti-virus; Vista SP2; Kumo; Palm; Linux

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)? Ryan Naraine: Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus Breaking...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Nokia Corp., Antivirus, Service Pack 2, Palm Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Security, Viruses And Worms, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Don't call me a 'mommyblogger' - the Motrin brouhaha

* Jennifer Leggio is on vacation Guest editorial by Joanne Bamberger Things got a little heated in the blogosphere last week over a Motrin ad suggesting that babies were the new mommy accessory. I don't know what was going on the...

Tags: Mother, Advertisement, Network, Blog, Insult, Joanne Bamberger, Blogging, Networking, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-11-28

Nostalgia: Steve Ballmer, why so serious?

It's been a long road for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, he was just a business-savvy best bud of Bill Gates -- long before he spent his days explaining why Microsoft's stock was at risk. A friend of...

Tags: Nostalgia, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Construction, Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-14