Tag Archives: internet

Notice that they don’t limit the offer to women.

Never idly diss some random boy band on Twitter, otherwise you might get retweeted by their lead singer and spend the next hour reading hundreds of death threats from 11 year old girls. I am SERIOUS, people. UPDATE: This was a coincidence, one presumes.

From the user terms: Your Content in our Services: When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide licence to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes that we make so that your content works better with our …

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Fellow blogger Alvin McEwen has uncovered a secret Facebook group whose members share tips on how to flag and take down gay blogs, Facebook pages, and YouTube clips that they find contrary to the Christianist cause. According to McEwen, among the group’s members are well-known religious leaders and anti-gay activists. Based upon information I received from an anonymous source, there …

Episode 4 of a web musical we’re just learning about. An original interactive musical web series inspired by the viral YouTube phenomenon, the “Dancing Inmates of Cebu,” PRISON DANCER is a “Glee-meets-Miss Saigon” adventure that paints a fictional portrait of people behind prison walls. In Episode 4, “Lose Your Way,” the audience becomes better acquainted with Lola, a strong, self-determined …

I’ve been locked out of the JMG account for hours.

Pingdom has surveyed the platforms used by Technorati’s Top 100 blogs and finds that WordPress dominates the field. That’s surely of little consequence to most of you, but it’s mildly interesting news to me, particularly coming on a morning during which Blogger was down for several hours. Dammit. Computer World reports: WordPress’ popularity, at least among these highly trafficked sites, …

The guys behind Texts From Hillary didn’t believe it was really the State Department on the phone. But it was. “It was sort of unbelievable. Her staff had emailed us yesterday, said that they liked the site and that the Secretary wanted to meet us. They asked if we could come over to the State Department, and we of course …

“Number One: Dan Savage is a radical and raunchy homosexual activist who gives unhealthy and reckless sex advice. He aggressively works to undermine the historic ethic of marital fidelity by championing the twisted notion that married couples should allow outside sex — like so many ‘monogamish’ homosexual male couples do. Incredibly, Savage argues that this would lower the divorce rate. …

75% of JMG traffic is domestic. Canada is next with 6%, then the UK with 3%. After that, it’s all 1% and fractions thereof. And let’s wave hello to our lone daily readers from Lesotho, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan!

Top JMG cities by visitor count.

The Washington Post reports: As Israel’s government issued a warning Monday over Iran’s nuclear program, some citizens of both countries were talking to one another in much sweeter tones online: The love fest started after an Israeli couple made a Facebook page and blog Saturday, issuing an online call for peace. “Iranians, we will never bomb you country. We heart …

A couple of months ago, Google began redirecting some readers to Blogspot addresses that ended in the country code of the user. Last night they added Canada, France, and several others to that list. Google explains: Q: Why is this happening?A: We are doing this to provide more support for managing content locally. If we receive a removal request that …

The digital age claims another victim. The 244-year-old Encyclopedia Britannica will be going out of print this year, abdicating to the likes of Google and Wikipedia. Most adults will remember looking up information in the IRL knowledge-base’s volumes, but the iconic encyclopedia only represents 1 percent of the company’s total sales today. Britannica traditionally published a new set of tomes …

Score another ACLU victory in Missouri A U.S. district judge issued a preliminary injunction banning the use of filtering software by the Camdenton R-III School District. The American Civil Liberties Union had filed a lawsuit against the district, claiming it was deliberately restricting access to homosexual-themed websites while still allowing students to view what it describes as “anti-LGBT sites that …

SRSLY.

Inevitable. Looxcie records in a continuous five-hour loop, allowing users to capture events in their lives, both unexpected and mundane, without lugging around a video camera. An Instant Clip button on the gadget lets videographers send a clip of the last 30 seconds to a social network with a single click. Seeking to increase the level of instant gratification, the …