The internet is the place to pump your ideas out and hope they’ll resonate with someone somewhere. When digital strangers agree with your opinions, fawn over your pictures, or laugh at your jokes, it feels good, man. What was your biggest internet hit?
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You may call it a face-saving effort, but it looks like the Obama administration is taking some good measures to do damage control after the NSA disclosures fiasco. Presently, the … Continue reading
Berlin has many bragging rights, but the latest among them is a world’s first: scoring the first city domain name. Starting March 18, applicable websites will be able to use … Continue reading
That’s all folks. Officials announced on Friday that the U.S. government would surrender control over the internet—or at least the administration of the internet. It’s unclear who will take over the responsibility, but as The Washington Post points out, it will almost surely not be the United Nations.
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As attempts at getting people to pay attention to your crowd-funding venture go, aiming for a world record with the Guinness book of world records isn’t the worst idea you … Continue reading
Maybe one night, as you scuttled darkly across the fringes of the internet, you came across a site like CocoaJuggs.net. Or LuvInaBarnyard.org. Maybe even PrisonMate.net. But when you clicked, you were met not with the lurid promises of the URL, but rather by the smiling faces of SNL cast members. Had you discovered a wormhole in the web? Nah. Just another pervy-sounding NBC property.
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released its annual "Enemies of the Internet" index this week—a ranking first launched in 2006 intended to track countries that repress online speech, intimidate and arrest bloggers, and conduct surveillance of their citizens.Some countries have been mainstays on the annual index, while others have been able to work their way off the list.Two countries particularly deserving of praise in this area are Tunisia and Myanmar (Burma), both of which have stopped censoring the Internet in recent years and are headed in the right direction toward Internet freedom.
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Google Fiber could be coming to residents in San Antonio, Texas, where the City Council just approved a contract with Google and formally requested that Google peg the city as … Continue reading
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg called President Obama to complain about the US government presenting a threat to the internet, claiming to be “confused and frustrated” by the recent spying and surveillance … Continue reading
ICANN, or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is the agency that gets to decide what top-level domains are added to the web. Those top level domains are … Continue reading
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