On November 16th, the US Congress held hearings on the first American Internet censorship system knows as the “Stop Online Piracy Act,” or SOPA. This bill can pass. If it does the Internet and free speech will never be the same.
If you are a blogger, a Tumblr, WordPress, Blogspot user, have a Facebook , Flickr, Etsy, Reddit, Linkd or Twitter account, etc. –under SOPA, any site that contains user-generated content, could be held liable for copyright infringement and be forced to shut down until the offending content has been removed.
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Internet was interviewed and was asked what he could have done differently and said that the “//” after the colon was unnecessary.
See the interview.
We all have seen these happen. People who were virtual unknown catapult to instant stardom beyond their wildest imaginations simply for putting out there a 2-minute or so video on YouTube. Bear in mind, YouTube was non-existent 4 years ago. Since its inception in February 2005, the way most of us ‘view’ life revolved around watching those clips, forwarding it, talking about it, blogging about it- next thing you know, the video has gone viral.
YouTube has channels for everything- comedians, directors, gurus, musicians, reporters, entertainers, politicians and the ordinary ‘Youtuber’ further subdivided into regular viewers, those who have real talent like Charice, those who don’t, those who are desperate for attention or just plain crazies.
Best friends Erin Paula and Roxanne unsigned Filipino-American singers from California may just get their biggest breaks soon! And again we have Ellen DeGeneres’ staff to thank for for spotting the duo on YouTube! After being featured in a short video clip on the Ellen DeGeneres show a few days ago, Ellen openly invited the two on national TV calling out: “they’re fantastic, if you’re watching right now please please come on the show!”
You must have perfected the art of digital photography by now. You are adept in operating a digital camera, you can probably punch into the settings and menus with your eyes closed! I know I can (well, maybe half-closed). I am attached to my digital camera in as much as I am to my laptop. I never go out without a camera on my purse. I could leave home without a cellphone but never without a digital camera!
But what happens if you are handed a disposable camera? You remember those. You know, that kind where you wind up the wheel on the upper right corner and peek into this tiny window as you point and snap to take a picture at the same time you are pressing on that flash button on the front of the camera. That kind.
I bet that will be a real challenge! Well, are you up for it?
If you only have one photo to take when a camera is handed to you, what would you take? Are you going to shoot randomly or think hard?
A traveling one-time use camera is sent out to the world and asks people it meets to take ONE PHOTO of any thing, any event, or of any one that triggers interest, inspires, disgusts them at that particular first chanced meeting with the camera.
Learn more about the new website and how you can be part of it at: One Photo Project
Have you thought about photographing yourself daily and journalizing each photo? In days, weeks, months, years?! Hard to believe that a lot of people have been doing self-portraits for years without skipping or stopping!! That’s 365 photos in a year and over a thousand photos of yourself in 3 years. Meet some of the people who have been doing this strange but very impacting project with minimum 3 years worth of work!
Read more about the people who popularized the digital Self-portraits phenomenon…
Earn cash! Search More Efficiently and Intelligently! Get the Results You Want!
Before you scream, “not another search engine?!” Scour, the months old search engine is really something that you must take notice and even capitalize on just because it offers something NO OTHER search engine does- REWARD its readers! It sounds banal I know but that’s just the best way to put it, you earn points every time you use Scour.
After garnering enough points for doing what you already do daily, Scour will send you a VISA Gift card anywhere you are in the world!
Search + Points= CASH Gift Card. No brainer.
Think Google is the coolest thing ever to come in the Internet? Think again!
Or is it too early to pass judgment?!
See, what it all comes down to an ordinary internet user like me is relevance! When I search for something online, a keyword or a phrase, I’d like my search engine to be able to give me results that are useful, sensible and applicable to me. Unfortunately, I did not find that at all with Cuil.
Having these problems on your computer?
Bluetooth card appearing as a USB Device under other devices.
Missing System Icons in Windows Vista
Error 913
Network Connection is empty or missing network connections icons – WinXP
Find out resolutions at Techalang.blogspot.com