The incident apparently began with the FBI monitoring certain web blogs for terrorist activity. Al-Qaeda is known to operate and spread their communication through the Internet, but the odd part about this shut down is that it was a community web service with many users. The blogging service, Blogetery, reportedly …
July, 2010
June, 2009
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9 June
Why people keep blogging
Last week the New York Times ran a feature about several bloggers who had abandoned their blogs. They quoted statistics from Technorati stating that 95 percent of blogs are abandoned, the ruins of the lost World Wide Web. They cite many reasons. Some people thought they would become financially independent. …
May, 2009
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13 May
PCMag: The Free Web is about to Expire
Lance Ulanoff at PC Magazine predicts that the “good old days” of free content and services is soon to come to an end. He cites many reasons for this theory. Among them are: 1. A glut of free content from largely undifferentiated sources 2. Premier providers struggling to maintain a …