little red planet is maintained by a certified cyberspace astronaut! He has a quirky view of life, universe and everything portrayed through the eyes and lenses of this Australian photographer, web designer, geek and Dad. Thrown in for good measure and personal amusement are random diatribes about political issues, passionate support of the open source [...]
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By now, most of us rely on the Internet for a great deal of things. Chances are that you have made an online purchase recently. It is even possible to order groceries online and have them delivered to your front door. Due to its penetration into our everyday lives, it is no [...]
It was in March last year that as I became aware of Blog$hares... I was going through one of my favorite motoring blog that I noticed this button. Never thought it would change my surfing habits the moment I clicked on it.Well, to be honest, Blog$hares is all about a fantasy sharemarket in cyberspace. If only the money was real. If only artefacts are allowed to be used in the real world. The chips... more valuable than all the gold in the world. But what it has done for me is to enable me to learn about the realities of share market, bearing in mind that the only thing I know about share market is that nations can go bonkers if the Index is low.True enough, Blog$hares is a reflection of the actual stock market. You have players who are aggressive, passive players, collectors, those who o
Like everything else in the world, Christmas in 2007 is in an online affair, particularly for the 20 to 30 some-things among us. The days of trawling crowded malls for gifts and wrapping, and tape and cards are over. In these consumerist domains, we have been replaced by teeny-boppers in search of a little Christmas ‘spirit’ and the oldies for whom ‘online shopping’ is still a dirty word. And while real gifts are bought and sold online, there is also a growing culture, evolving out of social networking and email, of intangible communication, particularly over the festive season.
With such dazzling Christmas trees available as Facebook apps, who needs a real one that requires dismantling after the festivities of New Year? Much easier to just press ‘delete’ on the 12th day. Cyber gifts too, are a growing trend, leaving little room to worry over spending good money on an unwanted gift. Why spend hours handwriting Christmas cards that will eventu
Checking through free font sites is not a very productive time or even an enjoyable one. Those pop-up ads are quite a pain in many uncomfortable parts of the anatomy, if you know what I mean. In any case the quality is nothing to write home about! Here’s an exception. Fonts500.com provides the top 500 [...]
via The Independent" I gasped in wide-eyed, youthful wonder at the extraordinary possibilities of the world wide web. In retrospect, I like to think that I pondered the future of humanity – the way this new tool could impact on democracy, end international conflict and save the planet from environmental collapse – although I probably started with a conceited search for my own name." [more]
SYMPOSIUM ON REPUTATION ECONOMIES IN CYBERSPACEThe Information Society Project at Yale Law School is proud to present Reputation Economies in Cyberspace. The symposium will be held on December 8, 2007 at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT.This event will bring together representatives from industry, government, and academia to explore themes in online reputation, community-mediated information production, and their implications for democracy and innovation. The symposium is made possible by the generous support of the Microsoft Corporation.A distinguished group of experts will map out the terrain of reputation economies in four panels: (1) Making Your Name Online; (2) Privacy and Reputation Protection; (3) Reputation and Information Quality; and (4) Ownership of Cyber-Reputation. See below for more detail on each panel; a current list of confirmed speakers is available at the conference website.Online registration is available now at: https://wems.worldtek.com/RepEcon. There is a $95 reg
Na dann mal, Hallo!
Wer ist Klaus-Dieter Diedrich? Da hatte ich vor ein paar Stunden auch noch keine Antwort. Dann habe ich das Blog tagumtag im Cyberspace entdeckt. Eine bemerkenswerte Angelegenheit. Das Projekt des Forum Allmende e.V. zeigt wie gut sich das Blog als Darreichungsform für Literatur eignet.
“TagumTag ist ein Projekt der literarischen Gesellschaft Forum Allmende e. V. Sie wurde 1998 gegründet und will die literarische Kultur im Südwesten Deutschlands sowie in den angrenzenden Regionen des alemannischen Sprachraums fördern und beleben. Ihre Mitglieder sind Literaturinteressierte, selbst Schreibende sowie im Kultur- und Literaturbetrieb Tätige, denen an einer lebendigen Auseinandersetzung mit der literarischen Tradition und Gegenwart gelegen ist.”
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Cyber-bullying is a distressing form of bullying prevalent in student populations with access to various information communication technologies such as mobile phones and the Internet. It is a repetitive and malicious way to gain power over the victim through humiliation, torment or threats.
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By: Leslie GerardThese days, people are shopping for a lot more than apparel online. If youre looking for love, the internet may very well replace your favorite singles hot spot. Its important to note that dating in cyberspace requires a different approach, in many ways, than you may normally expect on the average dating scene.When you first meet someone online, avoid the temptation to divulge too much information about yourself. This is especially true when it comes to your full name, address and/or telephone number. You wouldnt give this information to a perfect stranger, so why give it someone that youve just met online? Chatting via IM isnt so much different than a telephone and if someone seems overly pushy when it comes to getting your personal information, theres probably a reason and its not likely to be a good one. Although many people have found success with it, meeting someone online is a gamble to say the least. Theres no way to know for certain who you are talking to and,
In Sign of New Threat, Militant Offers Tips on Credit Card Fraud.So when Imam Samudra published a jailhouse autobiography this fall, it was not surprising that it contained virulent justifications for the Bali attacks, which killed 202 people, most of them foreign tourists.But tucked into the back of the 280-page book is a chapter of an entirely different cast titled "Hacking, Why Not?" There, Samudra urges fellow Muslim radicals to take the holy war into cyberspace by attacking U.S. computers, with the particular aim of committing credit card fraud, called "carding." The chapter then provides an outline on how to get started.Internet crime experts said Samudra's book seems unprecedented as a tool for recruiting radical Muslims into a campaign of online fraud and building networks of fundraisers.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
The United States Air Force is actively seeking "cyberspace attack scenarios," according to documents posted on a government Web site for contractors. The attack strategies should "disrupt, deny, degrade, destroy or deceive an adversary's information system," according to the Air Force Requests for Information (RFIs) obtained by ABC News. Experts say so much of military logistics are dependent on computer systems that any kind of disruption would give the attacker an advantage.Earlier this year Estonia claimed that state-sponsored Russian hackers had attacked official Web sites in retaliation for the removal of a Soviet-era monument in its capital, Tallinn. Government e-mail and private online banking had to be shut down temporarily while telecommunications companies and news organizations were also affected. More...
Politics and Cyberspace - The New York TimesExcerpt:"We caught up the other day with a conference about campaign politics and the Internet, where Joe Trippi took time out from baking, er, burning pies with the Edwards campaign to trace the arc of the influence of politics on cyberspace, and vice versa. A few of the e-advisers to the campaigns, namely those with the Clinton, Obama and McCain operations, also attended. They didn’t give away many trade secrets, but offered some insights into what works and what doesn’t at this stage of the election cycle."http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/politics-and-cyberspace/Alex
In one of his sci-fi trilogy, either Neuromancer, Count Zero or Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson there is a scene where the cybercowboy Case is chatting in cyberspace with his dead college, an artificial intelligence rendered from a the legendary cybercowboys personality. They have just finished some major operation online and the AI says something like: " … these crazy people who say cyberspace has its own god, you know what, they are right"
But that is in the future. For now the closest we can get is the catholic idea of assigning a protecting saint of the internet. In 2003 there was a ballot on the italian internet were seventy thousand votes were cast from all over the catholic world between six saints.
Supposedly a strict rule of one computer-one vote was enforced and yet there were two thousand some votes cast in the Vatican state. Supposedly there are five hundred fifty eight citizens living in the Vatican so that's interesting.
I don't know how this concluded
Email lists relating to Cyberculture, Cyberspace, Virtual Communities, and other Internet related topicsThe following is a guide to some of the more popular and important Email list that deal with cybercultural aspects like virtual communities, cyberspace, digital culture, etc. The list wasn't compiled by me - all credits for this summary of available Email lists got to the members of the Cybersoc Mailing List (http://www.cybersoc.com).Association For Community Networking (AFCN)List descripton: A closed, members only mailing list for community networking professionals.http://bcn.boulder.co.us/afcn and http://www.afcn.netCibercultura List descripton: a bi-weekley newletter covering everything related to cyberculture and society. It's written by Spanish speaking Internet users around the world. The list is in Spanish.http://www.web.sitio.net/faq/ciberculturaFor subscriptions send an e-mail to: cibercultura@esgratis.netCommunetList description: Community and Civic Network Discussion Lis
To most of the hundred millions of computer users around the world, the inner workings of a computer are an utter mystery.Users expect information technology (IT) professionals to help them with their needs for designing, locating, retrieving, using, configuring, programming, maintaining, and understanding computers, network, applications and digital objects.But the reality of what users, students, and professionals find differs markedly from what they expect. They find poorly designed software, complex and confusing systems, crash-prone systems, software without warranties, surly customer service.And this is where a good training comes into the scene.Especially if done at a high level like the one at the Open Technology Group.Their courses are delivered using a unique method of blended learning, which utilizes a combination of industry recognized instructional materials, and their own in-house developed materials. Their PHP training is both flexible and affordable. The courses are tau
OK - to be honest, the ‘world of blogging’ or blogosphere doesn’t hugely interest me. I love blogging and I love reading other blogs and commenting but that’s about it. All of the legislation, ‘big name bloggers’, pay per post etc leaves me a little flat.
However the current debate in the blogosphere does interest me: should internet [...]
Grass Roots Planted In Cyberspace - John Edwards' Campaign Leads the Field In Political Use of Social Networking SitesExcerpt:"If there's a social networking site that John Edwards is not a part of, we'd like to know what it is, pronto.No one's sure exactly what role these sites -- a.k.a. socnets -- will play in the upcoming election. But whatever it is, Edwards isn't taking any chances. The man's flooding the zone. He's on the big ones: Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, et al., where supporters and well-wishers are sending their best to his wife, Elizabeth. Writes a fan on MySpace this week: "Washington State sends you love and health. Lots of love to you and Elizabeth. Stay strong!!!" Edwards is also on some of the newest, somewhat obscure, mostly unheard of URLs. Blip.tv, anyone? He's there. 43Things.com? There, too."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/29/AR2007032902382.htmlAlex
Cyberspace has been found to be less law-abiding than the real world. In India, there is a need to help police investigators acquire the skills to detect and prosecute computer crimes. This is in tune with the approach of mending broken windows in real-world policing.1 The collaboration of different stakeholders will facilitate this [...]
Information wants to be free, Stewart Brand, co-founder of the Well online community in San Francisco, said more than 20 years ago. It remains the pithiest expression of two truths about the internet: it lowers the cost of distribution of words and pictures, and it enables information to spread freely within countries and [...]
Finding proof that terrorists plan to launch cyberattacks against the United States is difficult, but the accessibility and vulnerability of the Internet to attack makes it a growing threat. “The time may be approaching when a cyberattack may offer advantages that cause terrorists to act, even if the probability of success or level [...]
It's in the news, US government wants Google to handover records of searches made by google users. Is it really for curtailing injustice in the net or maybe its just another one of Bush administration's "war on terrorism efforts."
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