Monthly Archives: September 2007

A New Lawsuit Against Google

A man in Pennsylvania has sued Google for $5 bil­lion in dam­ages, alleg­ing (in a hand­writ­ten affi­davit) that Google is vio­lat­ing his pri­vacy. He says that the name “Google,” when turned upside down, is a “code” for his Social Security num­ber. If a per­son can mum­ble in writ­ing, this guy does, veer­ing onto the sub­ject [...]
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AHHH!!

LED ZEPPELIN LIVE IN CONCERT... ...IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY EVEN!!!! I don’t care if I’m the last one in the world to know this. It deserves men­tion, scream­ing loud men­tion, until your lungs bleed kind of screaming.
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Free Press

In the wake of the New York Times drop­ping its paid Times Select ser­vice, there is news today that the Wall Street Journal’s Web site may drop its pay wall as well. Again, the role of lib­er­a­tor is being played by adver­tis­ing rev­enue. The WSJ, pur­chased recently by Rupert Murdoch, a closely mon­i­tored devel­op­ment that had [...]
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Mr. New York Times, Tear Down that (Pay) Wall!

The New York Times plans to dis­man­tle its Times Select paid ser­vice in an effort to drive more read­ers deeper into their Web site and increase ad rev­enue, Reuters reports. The ser­vice will shut down on Wednesday after two years of ser­vice. Times Select had about 227,000 paid sub­scribers, who will receive pro-rated refunds when [...]
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Protecting Children Online

Virginia has become the first U.S. state to require Internet safety edu­ca­tion in pub­lic schools, accord­ing to a report on National Public Radio today. Officials at the Virginia Attorney General’s office told NPR that chil­dren often don’t real­ize they are at risk online, and par­ents don’t know enough to teach their chil­dren how to pro­tect [...]
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