Burma is the worst place in the world to be a blogger because of its military government that severely restricts Internet access and imprisons people for posting critical content, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
CPJ’s "10 Worst Countries to be a Blogger" also ranks a number of countries in the Middle East and Asia where Internet penetration has increased and government repression has grown in response.
Yahoo Music Exec Goes Country
Jay Frank of Yahoo Music has traded in Silicon Valley hipness for Nashville cool as he becomes the latest executive at Yahoo to bail out of the company.
XML Country List File
Today, I had to bind a list of countries to a drop down list in ASP.NET 2.0. I wanted to use an XML file to store the countries. There are more than 200 so there was not way I was going to hard code them in the HTML.
Image Search Knows No Country
Think about it. If you’re a search buff, how often would you stumble across a site in a completely different language…?
Country Cell Phones Increase Cancer Chance
We always knew cell phones would fry your brain, now there’s some evidence. A recent study in Sweden showed evidence of people in rural areas having a higher chance of brain tumors from the higher radiation levels required to boost the cell phone signals for those rural.
The Benefits Of Having a Country Top Level Domain (TLD) Name
Most new websites tend to look for a domain name with a .com or .net tld (Top Level Domain). They feel this gives the site a more professional appearance and will appeal to a more international audience and in many cases this is true. However, it can also be beneficial to look at purchasing a domain name with a country specific tld.