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on 4 days ago
Why hasnt anyone created a better web-based email provider?
For me personally, I use and love Gmail. The team behind the service has to be one of the best, hardest working teams in tech, as they’re constantly rolling out new changes and improvements, especially on the mobile front. The big problem is, they’re a part of Google. Lately Google has been getting pretty shady, like adding in Google+ results into search
on Mon, 30th Jan at 1:00 am
At the Jamaica Blog Awards on Sunday at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel sponsored by Jamaica Producers – St Marys Chips, I delivered a tribute to Annie Paul who received the Personal Achievement Award for excellence in blogging in Jamaica. This was the second highest point of the show for me. The tributes delivered by Jean Lowrie-Chin, Prof. Cooper and I in my opinion were moving – felt a lil teary. This is something I’ve always wanted to do and I was pleased it happened. Please read the tribute below, and then you can head over to Active Voice to read Annie Paul’s work.
on Tue, 24th Jan at 1:00 am
The regional blogosphere in 2011 saw a few territories, most notably Cuba, taking front and centre - especially when it came to digital activism. The rest of the Caribbean meanwhile, grappled with everything from homophobia to states of emergency, weathered hurricanes and questioned the boundaries of online privacy, discussed a plane crash and World AIDS Day and became ardent fans of Project Runway.
on Fri, 20th Jan at 1:00 am
Monica Guzman presents, Why I Unplug, at Ignite NewsFoo 2011
on Thu, 19th Jan at 1:00 am
Jamaica Blog Awards 2011 Winners
The second staging of the now annual Jamaica Blog Awards took place at the Jamaica Pegasus on January 15th 2011. After a long voting and judging process the best and most popular Jamaican blogs were awarded according to categories like Best Beauty and Fashion Blog, Best New Blog and Best Overall Writer.
on Wed, 18th Jan at 1:00 am
This article appeared in the February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2).
From The Road To Tycho, a collection of articles about the antecedents of the Lunarian Revolution, published in Luna City in 2096.
For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college—when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan.
on Tue, 10th Jan at 1:00 am
The right to read is a battle being fought today. Although it may take 50 years for our present way of life to fade into obscurity, most of the specific laws and practices described above have already been proposed; many have been enacted into law in the US and elsewhere. In the US, the 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) established the legal basis to restrict the reading and lending of computerized books (and other works as well). The European Union imposed similar restrictions in a 2001 copyright directive. In France, under the DADVSI law adopted in 2006, mere possession of a copy of DeCSS, the free program to decrypt video on a DVD, is a crime.
on Wed, 04th Jan
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011 …. The bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods.
on Tue, 03rd Jan
