PIPA/SOPA is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity.” The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites — they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”
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Every year Google publishes a list of the most popular search terms and analyzes their rise and fall. It’s called “zeitgeist.” As I read over the list, I made a few observations:
10. A lot of the searches about the iPad 2 were related to how to “jailbreak” the device.
9. People find Steve Jobs more fascinating than Barack Obama.
8. The world’s worst nuclear disaster ever only made it to 8th place?
7. Glad to know Adele became more popular than Rihanna (at least in terms of Google searches.)
6. Apple didn’t even give us an iPhone 5 this year. What we got was the iPhone 4S.
We don’t need more regulations. You know what the best online privacy protection is for kids? Parents! No new law/regulation will protect children if parents are not looking after their children.
I was listening to TWiT this week and Leo LaPorte kept talking about the New Digg, so I decided to check it out. One of the biggest new features, auto-submitting your blog posts. Continue reading
