Bennett timeline update

"Details in police's case reveal chilling, devious planning by victim's uncle July 5, 2008 By Daniel Barlow Vermont Press Bureau ...

Brazil prepares for local elections without the little help of Internet

Caracas, Venezuela, 5 July 2008. As the registration of candidates ended today, the electoral campaign for local elections kicks off tomorrow. Voting will take place on 5 October 2008. Some analysts perceive these...

Cheap Wesite Hosting only $0.01

I would like to share with everyone this site I found offering hosting for only $0.01.  The site is called Coupzilla.com.  What they actually offer is a HostGator Coupon Code to get hosting cheap. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to open a website. 

Internet addressing agency (ICANN) loses its own addresses

Uh oh. Another reminded that on the Internet, things aren't always as they seem."This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, said it...

Another Indication that Newspapers are Finished

So, stage one is you lose touch with your audience.  Stage two is you lose readership.  Stage three is your advertisers run.  Stage four is your valuations plummet.  Stage five is the analysts...

The Alex Jones Show - On the Air Now!

"The Alex Jones Show is a nationally syndicated news/talk show based out of Austin, TX. The show is syndicated by the Genesis Communication Network on over 60 AM and FM radio stations across the United States, as...

5 Weird And Hilarious Google Search Results

"Google is our favorite search engine and it continues to help us everyday in searching through the internet. And if you ask Google for some fun, it won’t disappoint you either. Here are 5 weird and hilarious Google search results which I am sure you’re gonna enjoy !!"

ComScore’s Top Start-ups in Canada

I'm not a huge believer in Alexa's numbers but as I'm fond of saying, "in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king"."Everytime we publish our monthly Techvibes Start-Up Indexes, there are always a few complaints about the use of Alexa and Compete data...

Google in deal with Brazil to fight child porn

Brazilian prosecutors say 90 percent of illegal Internet content being investigated in Brazil involves Orkut. The site has 60 million users, half of them in Brazil. " Internet search company Google signed an...

Economic Stimulus Plan Has Helped the Porn Industry

The $600 cheques, sent out as part of the Economic Stimulus Plan in the US to help boost the economy, have helped the Internet Porn Industry.  Probably not the economic growth George Bush was planning on. ...

Mozilla Sets Official Download Record for Firefox 3.0

Just as Mozilla had hoped, planned, delivered, and claimed, the company has officially set a new Guinness world record for single day software downloads with its Firefox 3.0 internet browser, which was downloaded...

Blogged.com Launches Human-Powered News Tracker

In the ongoing internet battle between human editors and mechanized algorithms, there has been no clear victor. But competition in the space is heating up, and Blogged.com is betting on the humans. Well, their humans."Blogged.com, a site that started off as a ratings-powered...

Facebook Blocked in China

This doesn't bode well for 08.08.08 and beyond: just a few weeks after launching its service in China, Facebook has been blocked.As of 4:26pm EST, are any NowPublic members in China able to access it?"Danwei readers...

Writing Backwards to Defeat Censorship

Chinese Bloggers have developed some clever solutions to the problem of getting their thoughts to the rest of the world through a heavily-censored ISP system. One of these solutions involves reversing characters to...

EBay Told to Pay $61 Million to Fashion Company Over Sales of Fake Goods

I'm not sure how I feel about this. While I agree with eBay that "cutting out the middleman" can make products more appealing to users, in the long run if fraud is left unchecked it may also drive away buyers. ...

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