Communicating in a networked world
Neat idea - although ReclaimPrivacy.org has gone away, you still may want to scan your Facebook privacy settings to see exactly how private you might not be! Comparitech offers to guide you through this. Try it out. Comparitech's page also … [Continue reading]
I was browsing the history of Esperanto and discovered Rose Island, a micronation in the Adriatic Sea that declared itself the Republic of Rose Island in 1968. (And whose official language was Esperanto.) Apparently there have been any number of … [Continue reading]
I’ve never gotten seriously into heavy metal, but on occasion I pig out on grunge music for a few hours, and today I was listening to an NPR Music Fresh Air podcast where Dave Davies interviewed the musicians of a heavy metal group Acrassicauda who … [Continue reading]
I wrote yesterday about the potential for the Internet to become fragmented and subdivided so that it would be many separate internets rather than a vehicle for open international communication. Traditionally this kind of subdivision is called … [Continue reading]
So the “solution” to providing uncensored Chinese-language search, at least right now (beginning 22 March, 2010), is to have Chinese citizens use google.com.hk (hk==Hong Kong) rather than mainland-based google.cn. I guess it’s a breakthrough idea to … [Continue reading]