Hate group hacks hip-hop sites

Scary stuff..." Beware hip-hop sites, there be some haters out there. Over the weekend, both SOHH.com and AllHipHop.com were targeted by what's believed to be a hate group, who hacked into the sites, caused chaos and forced the two to temporarily go offline. Instead of...

British woman, 23, jumped to her death from Golden Gate Bridge after studying...

Suicide websites hit the news again with this tragic story. Do some get pleasure from encouraging someone to take their own life? When a person hits an all time low and then comes across one of these websites they...

AFP says goods listed on eBay and other websites stolen

" PEOPLE who sell goods on eBay and other internet sites are being warned not to include their address in the advertisement - or risk offloading items for a lot less than expected. A police investigation in Canberra has revealed goods are being stolen after being listed...

Living the Joomla Dream

Chris Szabo lives on the beautiful Portuguese island of Madeira. Madeira, famous for its marlin fishing and once the escape of A-list celebrities, is the sort of place most people would like to imagine retiring. ...

Google releases Trends for Websites

"Google Trends was originally released as a tool that let you see visual comparisons between search volume of keywords. That hasn’t changed, but Google now also gives us the keys to more data about actual popularity of websites based on daily unique visitors."

Training helps bloggers hone professionalism, navigate legal issues

"Miami real estate agent Lucas Lechuga began blogging to share his knowledge of the local market. He didn't bargain for a $25 million defamation lawsuit when he wrote that a Miami developer had gone bankrupt decades...

US net firms to block child porn

In a major concerted effort  from the industry all three big intertent service providers have agreed to block hosting & access to child pornography sites. Industry has been divided on this for a long time....

Three ISPs Agree To Block Child Porn - Boon or Slippery Slope?

"Goobergunchand other readers sent in word that Sprint, Time Warner, and Verizonhave agreed to block websites and newsgroups containing childpornography. The deal, brokered by New York Attorney General AndrewCuomo, occurred after Cuomo's office threatened the ISPs with...

Child porn arrests in Australia

In one of the biggest action, Australian Police have nabbed more than seventy people involved with child pornography on the internet. The arrested include an federal policeman  & a school teacher. Raid conducted by the Australian federal police this nation wide...

$13.3 Billion U.S Porn Revenues Exceed Combined Sales of ABC, CBS, and NBC

If there was any doubt about what's really driving the internet's economic engine, here's a hint: it's not online gambling. It's porn. " The pornographic industry (world) is larger than the revenues of the top...

MySpace lets users take profile data outside site's walls

This seems to be a retraction to my previous post." MySpace announced Thursday it is opening the gates of its popular online community by letting users automatically transfer profile information to other social-networking websites.MySpace said it will kick off a "data...

Interaction index being developed by 20 something journalist

Following up on a Bivings Report from 2006, Joanna Geary moves toward a way of quantifying or at least visually comparing the interactivity of news sites. Very interesting."The study is based on the 2006 study of American newspapers by the Bivings Report. Most of the...

Get your JazzFest Cubes at WWOZ-FM Website

Do you love Jazz? Listen to live-streaming of the Absolute Best Jazz Radio on WWOZ website from anywhere in the world! Just click the Pink 'Tune In- Listen Online' radio button.Sometimes they even play original recordings from the early 1900s, though much was lost in the...

Personalized web ads are creepy: poll

Remember that time you were innocently writing a gmail when you noticed all the ads on the page had to with knitting and soap collecting, your two favourite hobbies? Apparently you're not the only one to find that...

User-generated content leading to new jobs in news organizations

As the multimedia news streams grows and content supplied by "users" becomes part of the news, new jobs are popping up. The latest is "group multimedia editor" for the Glasgow Herald, says Editors Weblog: "John Young, former picture editor of the Glasgow Evening Times, will...

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