Archive for the 'Web' Category
Internet: Reporters without Borders 2006 List of “Internet Black-Holes”
To initiate their 24-hour online demo against Internet censorship the international campaign organization Reporters without Borders has published their 2006 list of “Internet Black holes” – countries that censor and don’t provide free access to the Internet. Everyone is invited to connect to the Reporter without Borders website between 11 a.m. on 7 November and [...]
Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts?
After quite some discussions the last days on Digg power users dominating the front page stories at Digg we today stumbled over something rather strange. How can people rate a story when they can’t even access it? And how does a story that nobody can access make it to the front page with high numbers? [...]
Weekend activity: Have Fun with Ms. Dewey
You can say a lot about Ms. Dewey the Flash interface that Microsoft has put up to promote its Live Search web site. It might be tacky, completely useless for a search engine, they could have chosen a different girl, a complete waste of time. It’s fun – maybe not for longer than a few [...]
Web: 100 million web sites milestone reached
Internet monitoring company Netcraft today reported that there are now more than 100 million web sites on the Internet. This is an increase of about 3.5 million sites since last month and the Internet continues its strong growth seen throughout 2006. Blogs and small business web sites have driven the explosive growth this year together [...]
Internet: Web Technology Family Tree
Those who want to see how all the web “buzz words” and technologies fit together should have a look at Modern Life is Rubbish’s “family tree” of common web technologies. click on the image for the jump
Internet: Finding the most watched advertising videos
While many just switch to another channel when a block of advertisements starts on TV, others seemingly can’t get enough of it. And we’re talking dozens of million views here… All-time-high winner Sony Bravia not only made it to the front-page news, got millions of views on the top download sites, it even got its [...]