JWsurvey has the story..And it’s a very interesting one about religion, the internet, and the Jehovah Witness church.. Watchtower issues DMCA takedown over leaked annual meeting letter
A 13-year-old makes national headlines after he claimed he was blocked by the @POTUS Twitter account. CJ Pearson is an immediate success with conservatives for his youthful attacks on the President and Democrats.. He’s a black teen who has been swelling in popularity.. But now it appears that the teen in stardom fever either punked … Read more
One of my biggest problems with TUMBLR has always been its reblogging feature. While I rarely reblog, the times I do, I get as confused about what I am seeing as my readers may be seeing.. But TUMBLR is going to spice things up.. it’s been redesigned.. But is it better? One person’s tweet, quoted … Read more
Ad-blocking software is costing websites real money
Apparently the kids on the internets decided that Lol was lame enough to stop using it and ‘heheh’ and ‘haha’ were better. Thus the death of LOL Ttyl. LoL is dead
The real Wild West of the web died in the early 2000s.. But now the remaining relics where unbridled banter was king, the newest rules and changes will end that.. Limits at Gawker? Rules at Reddit? Wild West Web Turns a Page
It’s a high tangled web.. I’d rather not get involved or I’ll quit too. More here.. http://www.refinery29.com/2015/03/83204/taylor-swift-tumblr-bully Incidentally back in the summer of 2010, I also quit Tumblr after a band of neo Nazis started to hate me after posting a historic quote about Adolf hitler.. I soon reentered the fray.. haven’t quit since. but … Read more
Being trustworthy and accurate could help a web page rise up Google rankings if the search engine giant starts to measure quality by facts, not just links Lots of people are quite worked up over this.. As a matter of fact, the grand implication here is that GOOGLE is simply the Orweillian ‘Ministry of Truth" … Read moreGoogle wants to rank websites based on facts not links – 28 February 2015 – New Scientist
Google is banning public pornography on its Blogger site. Google Blogger bans porn.. The world just remembered that people still use BLOGGER.. There are also some fears that GOOGLE will start to just disappear websites over ten years old–ten years ago was a heyday for GOOGLE BLOGGER users.. In response, the Internet Archive is going to … Read moreGoogle bans porn from Blogger
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Thursday predicted the end of the Internet as we know it. I agree..Note the ‘as we know it’ ending to his statement.. There are some clear thing to agree with on this assumption of our future.. Schmidt reminds us, “There will be so many IP addresses…so many devices, sensors, … Read moreGoogle Chairman Eric Schmidt: “The Internet Will Disappear”