A British computer hacker wanted by the United States for "the biggest military hack of all time" begins a final fight today to avoid extradition.
Lawyers for Gary McKinnon, will argue in London’s High Court today that he is too ill to be sent to the United States for trial because he has Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism.
YouTube Fights Comment Idiocy With Audio Preview
Two things a person doesn’t always know: Who’s listening and how words are going to sound before they come out. The latter, if we want to get technical about it, is regulated by the orbitofrontal cortex of the amigdala, which unfortunately is switched off while a person uses the Internet—nonverbal communication is required for this to function properly—hence all the stupid comments loading down the Internet like a soiled diaper.
Clinton Advisor Fights In YouTube War Room
Decide which is worse: Doctoring a video and posting it online to smear a political figure; or said political figure threatening libel suits against news organizations for even talking about it. Luckily, he’s not up for election—well, not technically.
MSN Search Fights Duplicate Content
Live Search – aka MSN Search – has been showing some of the most aggressive duplicate content filtering I’ve ever seen across any search engine of late.
I first noticed it with a client who is performing well on Google, but has dropped down significantly on MSN.
The main problem is that he’s in a market that relies on affiliate content – and it’s the same content all of the affiliates are using.
MP3Tunes Fights EMI’s Funky Lawsuit Music
A lawsuit brought forth by recording industry giant EMI against MP3Tunes again raises some fundamental questions about digital music ownership and link aggregation.
Gloob Fights The Glob
They may not have meant for the association, but globs, lube, gunk and goo came to mind, which, if you stretch the metaphor, seem to be the yin to Gloob.tv’s yang. The operators (well, spin-meisters) of the site assert that searching for video on YouTube "doesn’t have to be like digging through a trash heap…"
YouTube Causing Food Fights?
Internet video sites such as YouTube are being singled out as helping to encourage high school students in Montreal to participate in food fights.
FOOD FIGHT
Microsoft Fights for its Reputation…
OK, despite what you think of me for being a mondo butthead on Sunday, I noticed one thing: Microsofties are quite willing to engage and fight for their product/service’s reputation.
Rocketboom Fights Attack of Killer Tomatoes
She, that is, not Amanda Congdon, plopped herself down in the anchor chair in a catchers mask and pads. Let the tomato throwing begin. Andrew Baron sits in the corner, a frazzled and twitchy mess with nothing to say about the matter. Joanne Colan informs Amanda fans of where she can be found. Rocketboom 2.0, sans foam insulation concerns, launches.
Irrepressible.Info Fights Censorship
A new site developed by Amnesty International with the help of long-time supporter The Observer UK and the Open Net Initiative provides a way to republish snippets of content from websites banned by various governments on one’s blog or site.