8 posts tagged “internet”

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An infographic showing what happens to a blog-post after you click "publish" -- all the scrapers, bots, ad-servers, splogs and bloggers who read and process.

Security experts are warning about a stealthy Windows virus that steals login details for online bank accounts. In the last month, the malicious program has racked up about 5,000 victims - most of whom are in Europe. Many are falling victim via booby-trapped websites that use vulnerabilities in Microsoft's browser to install the attack code.

::read more Glad i usually use a Mac!

Gosh, we are so with it - oh, I'm not quite old enough to be a silver surfer. But not far off:

So-called "silver surfers" dedicate an average of 42 hours a month to the World Wide Web, compared with 37.9 hours among 18 to 24-year-olds.
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Here's a map of the internet, mapped onto the traditional London Underground (Tube) map.

::link ::via boingboing

'I'd be lost without it' was the caption, underneath the a picture of the Tube map, that was printed on Tshirts that I sold to the London tourist trade for a short time in the mid '70s

(I'd just qualified as a teacher and there were no teaching jobs - that's my excuse)

Update: now they tell me! It's the Tokyo rail system

We're not the only people to be upset with Google's censorship:

::via BoingBoing -

Snip from a post on the Wired News blog Threat Level:

The custodian of five major public pension funds in New York City will formally request next month that Google take steps to counteract internet censorship in foreign countries with authoritarian government such as China, Egypt and Iran, according to Google's proxy statement for its annual meeting of stockholders on May 10

The New York City Comptroller will submit the proposal. The comptroller acts as investment advisor for the five city public pension funds, which include the retirement plans for city employees, teachers, NYPD, NYFD and board of education employees. Together, the funds own 486,617 shares of Google's Class A stock.

Link.

Watch this wonderful video on Simon's blog. What a difference the Web has made. Sure, there's a lot of rubbish but there's so much of value. It's transformed our communication.

Thanks to my son (who has a certain bias when it comes to Microsoft):
 
African millionaire cosmonaut takes on Microsoft

By Rebecca Harrison

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African magnate Mark Shuttleworth has already conquered space. Now he's set his sights on cyberspace where he hopes to challenge Microsoft.

Shuttleworth made his fortune by selling an Internet company he started in his Cape Town garage. He then spent $20 million (11 million pounds) on becoming the world's second space tourist in 2002, and the first African in orbit.

Now, he is taking on U.S. technology behemoth Microsoft by pioneering free computer software that he hopes will revolutionise the way computers are used, and make the Internet accessible to millions in Africa and other emerging markets.

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