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China Goes After Baidu, Google in Web Porn Crackdown

Monday - January 5, 2009

The Chinese government is starting 2009 with a crusade to make the Internet safe for its young population to surf without encountering pornography. While Beijing has previously tried to crack down on obscenity, this time government officials are using some of their harshest language yet, threatening actions against 19 Internet companies -- including China's most popular search engine, Baidu, and Google. Both Baidu and Google also offer blogging services that the government said had been used to distribute obscene content. [More...]

Linuxy New Year's Resolutions

Monday - January 5, 2009

So 2009 is here at last, and not a moment too soon! Finally we can put another Holiday Season behind us and get back to work. Some of us, of course, are still recovering from the seasonal merriment; others are still pondering gifts they received. To wit: On Digg, Rekzai earned more than 3,340 Diggs and 345 comments for posting a photograph titled, "I like Linux, so my aunt sends me this for Christmas!" [More...]

Making a Web App Work on Safari, Explorer and Everything in Between

Monday - January 5, 2009

Building an application for today's Web is a balancing act. Potential users use several competing browsers. Yet the user experience must be uniform for everyone, regardless of his/her browser of choice. And you can't support one or two browsers because you'll cut out major portions of the market. The problem is further compounded if your application is social. [More...]

A Modest Blogging Proposal

Sunday - January 4, 2009

It all started with a simple question from Forrester Research analyst Jeremiah Owyang late in the afternoon on Friday, Dec. 12. A few days earlier, blogger Chris Brogan had written about his decision to accept $500 from Kmart to find out what's cool to buy at the discount retailer and then write about it. [More...]

Will Work for Praise: The Web's Free-Labor Economy

Sunday - January 4, 2009

It's dawn at a Los Angeles apartment overlooking the Hollywood Hills. Laura Sweet, a graphic designer in her early 40s, sits at a computer and begins to surf the Net. She searches intently, unearthing such bizarre treasures for sale as necklaces for trees and tattoo-covered pigs. As usual, she posts them on a shopping site called "ThisNext.com." [More...]

7 Experts Paint Enterprise IT Landscape for 2009

Sunday - January 4, 2009

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 35, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, our guests make their top five predictions for IT in 2009. [More...]

The Life of a Social Cyborg

Saturday - January 3, 2009

Kevin Lim was positively draped in technology as he walked into a crowded Amherst, N.Y., tavern on a recent Saturday. He had a small camera clipped to his baseball cap, another camera on one shoulder, an iPod and small speakers on the other shoulder, and a laptop and video recorder in his backpack. Lim is a technophile, a blogger and -- his preferred term -- a social cyborg. [More...]

Traditional Journalists Look Warily Toward 2009

Friday - January 2, 2009

I'm writing this on Tuesday evening Pacific Time, Dec. 30, 2008. It will be published early Friday morning, Jan. 2. So right now I can't tell you if I was able to keep my first New Year's resolution: to use the extra "leap second" we all got just before midnight New Year's Eve in a wise, productive and clever fashion. [More...]

Obama's Internet Army Eager to Re-Up

Wednesday - December 31, 2008

The legions of online activists who mobilized to help Barack Obama win the White House were expected to return to their normal routines after the election, but they apparently did not get the memo. Rather, this group seems intent on remaining active as the new administration takes shape, for the most part using the same networking techniques that led to its formation. [More...]

Facebook Faces Nature's Wrath in Breastfeeding Photo Flap

Tuesday - December 30, 2008

In a world where "man boobs" are allowed to flop freely at football games, the strict scrutiny of photos of breastfeeding mothers reflects a double standard that has riled many Facebook users. By curbing the posting of such content -- the implication being that the nursing mother's bare breast could possibly be construed as "obscene" -- Facebook has exposed itself to a public relations nightmare. [More...]

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