Digital McCarthyism

The United States Congress is currently considering a bill (the Combatting Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) that would severely undermine the independence and unity of the internet as we know it. In short, it would lead to two blacklists – one list of “banned” web sites approved by the US Government, and one list [...]

Get off of my cloud

Image via Wikipedia I’ve been listening to all this talk of “The Cloud”, which to me is the new Web 2.0, which replaced the dot-com boom, which used to be the new black. And I think it’s interesting, while also being a load of crap. Users are encouraged to think they can rely on the [...]