Facebook Causes Egyptian Stir

I have noticed that Facebook has been in the media lately regarding the censorship of people creating groups. On Facebook, groups can be created by anyone regarding just about any subject. A group invite is then sent out to friends that might share an interest in what the group wishes to accomplish, or whatever the [...]

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Google Named Number One

More Google news…but good news this time! An article written at CMS (Content Management Systems?) Wire.com claims that Google has been chosen as number one out of one hundred different brands as the wealthiest and most successful this year. Google beat out huge companies such as General Electric (valued at 71.4 billion) and also Microsoft (valued [...]

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“Cracking the Great Firewall of China”

In a very interesting article on USAToday.com, China’s increasing internet censorship is described in chilling detail. It’s incredible to me that nations around the world still have the ability to keep their citizens completely devoid of international information. I couldn’t believe it when I read in the article that there are entire nations (North Korea) [...]

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What do all those things stand for?

I always wondered what the tiny letters and symbols meant at the bottom right of different texts and products. So, in an effort to satiate my curiosity, and in light of our discussion today in class, I decided to do a little research and find out what each one stands for. After searching fruitlessly for [...]

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Fair Use: What is it? Who is effected?

Fair Use: an exception to the exclusive rights of copyright holder “…for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching…scholarship, or research” (section seven of the U.S. copyright act).
Factors of fair use include:
-Purpose of the use. Is it educational?
-Nature of the original work. Is it very creative?
-Amount of original work used. Only a small amount?
-Effect [...]

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“Access Denied” Internet Filtering Study

Many countries around the world censor the internet for their citizens regarding religion, sexuality, and politics. An internet filtering study that has been titled “Access Denied,” was proposed in order to analyze and document internet filtering practices by over three dozen countries around the world. The fascinating results of the study are not available online, [...]

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Google is Forever in the News

Recently, because of the press Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft has received, the three companies have been all over the news. The latest article that I have found regarding Google is about their effort to advertise on MySpace pages. The partnership that Google has with MySpace could have been a good move by Google, but the [...]

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Yahoo Could Face Hostile Takeover

Although it’s fascinating to examine how search engines operate on a consumer basis, it’s always good to know what’s going on in the corporate side of things. In an effort to increase revenue Yahoo has been exhausing every avenue possible to avoid a hostile corporate takeover by Microsoft. Microsoft has offered to buy out Yahoo for $42 billion, [...]

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London Takes Google to Court

    Google has been struggling with implications of “liberal bias” for quite some time now. Recently, a Christian group in London, called simply the “Christian Institute,” was discussing with Google an ad that they wanted to put on the site. The ad would provide a link to a webpage discussing conservative viewpoints and news about abortion. The ad was not described [...]

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Where DO we get our oil?

In an effort to remedy my entire lack of blog posts (I am a slacker but I’m working on it) I did some extra credit work, one assignment of which was to do a little research on where the United States gets its’ oil. I wasn’t surprised at all to find that there were not [...]

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