Zimbabwe Election Results Court Ruling Delayed - Blogs, Media, Govs cry foul

"Exhausted and betrayed." That pretty much sums up the feelings of most Zimbabweans as they count a week of delays in reporting the results of the presidential election. People there are waiting on the outcome of a legal bid to force the declaration of poll results. Many take...

Txts Hrtng Ltrcy: WTF?

The analysts involved in this study go on to assign a singularverb to a plural noun, but we'll let that one slide; evidently the ubiquity of SMS as a means of communication is reducing Irish schoolkids to monosyllabism. "The fatal attraction between Irish young 'uns and...

%u201CSomebody must have blocked some sites. What is your problem?%u201D

"In 2003 India enacted an Information Technology Law, which is currently in the process of an amendment, under which it created an authority called the Computer Emergency Response Team, or CERT-IN, which maintains a decent, regularly updated website. Apart from internet...

BlogSpot blocked by Indian ISPs

"It appears India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued a directive to Indian ISPs to block BlogSpot and TypePad, and several ISPs have complied. LiveJournal is spared. I’ve been unable to access BlogSpot since Friday — the connection times out. Here are...