Interesting piece on censorship in social networks. http://www.webpronews.com/should-social-media-censor-offensive-content-2011-08 While inconclusive as to whether or not censorship happened in this instance it does raise an interesting question with respect to free speech while maintaining a socially acceptable existence. I had read earlier in the week that Google’s “What Do You Love?” search experiment (http://www.wdyl.com/) is also removing …
I finally got my Google Plus a/c sorted about two weeks ago now and have been playing with it ever since. Like most of my peers I have been an early adopter of many social networks and mobile networking apps. I’ve been on Twitter for too long to remember, Facebook too and have engaged in …
So, I’ve had this WordPress app on my HTC Hero for a while but never used it until now. Now being defined as a prolonged moment of brain ache and lack of productivity. Also readable as I’ll try anything to kickstart my thoughts again and get back to work. The first thing that I notice …
Changing that ugly Google Chrome icon in OSX I have to say I really hate the default Chrome icon. I recently found this decent icon by Mustafa Haydar and made a .hqx version for Mac. He also has another really cool Chrome icon, neochrome, which is newer and seems an evolution of the first. To convert .png files to …
New figures from Hitwise reveal national domination for Facebook. For the week ending March 13, Facebook grabbed 7.07 percent of all U.S. web traffic, barely beating Google at 7.03 percent. This made Facebook the most popular web destination in the U.S. via holykaw.alltop.com Just the google.com site before anyone gets too excited. Although it would …
Yes for the last week or so, I’ve been conducting my own Louis Theroux style documentary, hence the title chosen for this blog posting. They say that you should never meet your heroes; you’ll always be disappointed. Well, I’ve been living with my Hero for the last seven days and disappointed, I am not. Last …