Further to my posting about Friendster, here’s more on how the net seems to be bringing people together physically. Brian Montopoli of Slate wrote earlier this month about ‘blog maps’, where “some industrious blogger posts a subway map of his or her city… and then organizes the city’s blogs by the stop to which… Read More »
You know you’ve arrived when your website name becomes a noun or a verb (and people making fun of your name in school doesn’t count, which rules me out). Friendster, the social-networking service I mentioned a few weeks back, will hit 1 million users this week, and is expanding at a rate of 20 percent… Read More »
For those of you interested in how the Internet is not an unrestricted place for everyone, Reporters Sans Frontieres/Reporters Without Borders last month published their second annual report on censorship in cyberspace, “The Internet under Surveillance – Obstacles to the free flow of information online” which details “attitudes to the Internet by the powerful in 60… Read More »
Further to my earlier posting about a court ruling last week that Web loggers, website operators and e-mail list editors can’t be held responsible for libel for information they republish, Mark Glaser of the University of Southern California’s Online Journalism Review takes a more nuanced view, saying “What really happened in this ruling is much more… Read More »
Plaxo respond to privacy and other issues Further to my column in this week’s FEER and WSJ editions about the contact updater Plaxo, here’s the company’s full responses to my questions about the product. 1. How exactly does Plaxo hope to make money from the venture? If this information is still private… Read More »