Cyberbullying Law Makes Being Mean Online A Felony

I always thought that of all the amendments to the US Constitution, the first one was both the most memorable and the easiest to understand: You can say what you like, outside of the famous “shouting fire” example, and the government can’t stop you. Easy. A toddler could get it. (My mother taught civics/law and justice for 25 years, and I assure you that when…

Surfing At Work Makes Employees More Productive

Visiting sites like Facebook or YouTube while at work can make employees more productive, claims a new University of Melbourne study. Dr. Brent Coker, from the Department of Management and Marketing, says that workers who engage in "Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing" (WILB) are more productive than those who don't.

The AP’s Desperate Attempt To Outlaw Search Engine Links

The AP is launching an all out assault on any use of its content that is not licensed (purchased) for use by Internet publishers and search engines. As I have said in the past, the AP is not just focusing on the blatant violators such as spam blogs or sites that quote paragraphs without attribution or link. On the contrary, the AP is specifically going…

Twitter’s Follower Limit – Good or Bad?

Twitter has had a limit on how many people a user can follow in a day (1,000) in place for some time, and on Monday the company said this limit was not being consistently applied to all accounts, but that it would be from here on out.