Michael Anti (aka Jing Zhao,) a key figure in China’s new journalism, has been blogging from China for 12 years. Despite the control the central government has over the Internet — “All the servers are in Beijing” — he says that hundreds of millions of microbloggers are in fact creating the first national public sphere […]
That’s right. A stunningly low proportion of only 16% Americans know what “the cloud” is, according to a national survey conducted by Wakefield Research, commissioned by Citrix. Other stunning statistics to come out of the survey are as follows: 29% of correspondents responded with a reference to an actual cloud, the sky or something related […]
An hilarious scene from the 16th episode of the eight season of Roseanne, where Leonard David (Johnny Galecki) tries to get his friend Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) off from the Internet. Have you noticed that Johnny Galecki still looks pretty much the same even after 16 years? [Via LS]
After logging on at Vimeo a few minutes ago, I fell on this totally amazing Old Spice ad that was just posted by the site’s staff, and I have to say, this thing totally wins at the Internet! I’m pretty sure this is going to go viral in a big, big way. The video even […]
Save the poor hipster girls in the swetsy shops. Do the right thing. [by LOUD | Via College Humor]
The official figure for the proportion of US homes without broadband access has dropped by more than a third in the space of a year. But the Federal Communications Commission notes the apparent drop may be partly due to improved data collection. The official figure for the number of Americans without adequate access is 19 […]
I don’t actually know how long this goes on for (it just keeps going and I didn’t have the patience to wait longer than 5 minutes), but it’s a pretty awesome use of Flash, combining art and technology in a really beautiful way. While I am a fan and appreciate the work that has clearly […]
I didn’t know they even had spells on eBay. I don’t actually use eBay that much anyway, but this was still a bit of revelation. So apparently it’s been a thing to buy things such as magic spells, curses, hexes – even prayers and blessings! eBay has now declared such a thing stupid and is banning […]
It seems Facebook has finally said they’ll be deleting photos within a “reasonable period of time”. If you didn’t realise, Facebook’s systems were keeping some photos on their content delivery networks (CDN) for as long as three years after you deleted them. So even though you ‘deleted’ those late-night not-so-sober photos from Facebook, they could […]
Don’t believe me? Go into street view for the address “343 Hull Road, York, England, YO10 3, United Kingdom” and you will see that beautiful blue box. Edit: Map embedded below. There’s even a Cyberman and two Daleks a little to the right. View Larger Map Google sees all, even you Doctor.