Posts Tagged ‘Blogosphere’

So it’s been a while (again), but I’ve been busy with the followup of the launch of Bouncepad 2.0. Late last week, I read about Seeing Yellow, a website that talks about “printer dots” and calls on people to contact the manufacturer of their printers (color laser printers only) to inquire as to how to [...]

A rare occurance

Posted: 25th June 2007 by John in Uncategorized
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Over the weekend I wrote a post about Travis Corcoran of SmartFlix and his encounter with an over the top lawyer who didn’t appear to have any clue about the law.    I have taken that post offline, however, due to reports from his family that he’s not well right now.    I wish him and his [...]

When individual rights are trampled….

Posted: 17th April 2007 by John in Uncategorized
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I read recently a small story about a 15 year old high school student, Cody Webb, who was jailed for 12 days after the school identified him as having called in a bomb threat on the school. The only problem is, they mis-identified him because they forgot about the whole daylight savings time thing – [...]

Maybe all is not lost for America…

Posted: 22nd March 2007 by John in Uncategorized
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Surprise, surprise…. I just read a story (also reported on slashdot) that a federal judge struck down COPA (child online protection act), citing that parents can protect their children from online content through the use of available software filters and content blockers. Honestly, this news gives me a small sliver of hope for our country. [...]

Stupidity on the Internet – it’s a pandemic!

Posted: 19th March 2007 by John in Uncategorized
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I read an article on slashdot over the weekend (can you see a trend here, I read slashdot a lot, it’s interesting) that talks about a Colorado woman who is suing archive.org for spidering her website. She’s sueing Archive.org for civil theft, breach of contract and a few other charges. The Judge in the case [...]