There has been a lot of talk today about Murdoch wanting to have Google stop indexing his news sites. I’m not going to go into the piss poor business decision this is, but I do need to highlight this: Mr Murdoch also indicated that he would use legal methods to prevent Google and other search […]
Following up on yesterday’s news of the White House now using the open source content management software Drupal to power their site I decided I needed to expand on it a bit more for my less tech savvy readers. First an explanation of open source software is in order before an understanding of what it […]
The Southern Poverty Law Center has posted about video on YouTube right now: Here’s an ominous posting on YouTube from the “Patriot” crowd. It advises President Obama and other prominent people (“Our Dear Leader and co.”) to “leave now and give us our country back” and to do so by next week. “If you stay,” […]
Reports are that Microsoft and Yahoo have sealed the deal for Microsoft to offer their new Bing search engine as the default search engine for Yahoo. In my opinion this should give Google something to worry about. Bing is a very nice search engine. Microsoft finally broke out of their stagnant web presence with the […]
Judge Richard Posner thinks that should be the case: Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent . . . What Posner is arguing is insane. Basically he is saying that if I want […]
When I did my previous post, I was searching for a transcript of Jindal’s comments. The first thing Google popped up was this transcript by FOX News. Same thing on Google News. The problem? It is missing a lot of stuff. No mention of sheriff Lee. No mention of the high speed rail or volcano […]
I’m not going to dance on the grave of the right wing blogging collaborate. It looks like enough people already are, including right wing blogs, but it does merit mentioning that Pajamas Media is closing up show. I got to say that it isn’t shocking, and it wouldn’t shock me one bit if this is […]
It looks like Google is suffering some major problems this morning. Here is an example: It tells you that my site is badddddd and that I will mess your computer up. Of course I am not, and if you don’t believe me, well here is what happens when you Google the word Google, which of […]
McCain’s campaign is all pissy because YouTube is pulling their campaign videos that have DMCA complaints: After seeings its videos repeatedly removed from YouTube, John McCain’s campaign on Monday told the Google-owned video site that its copyright infringement policies are stringent to the point of stifling free speech, and that its lawyers need to revamp […]
The wingnuts have been in an uproar over a “news article” posted by some group called African Press International, in which Michelle Obama allegedly calls the organization and goes on a rampage. Some of the more notable journalists on the right have reported this is entirely false, yet the wingnut hysteria continues. Here’s what they […]