Edward Snowden’s not the story. The fate of the internet is
Feels like I’m linking to something like this every week 😦 Another story about the threat to the freedom of the internet and how it is fragmenting in to a series of smaller, censored networks where privacy is non-existent. Scary days.
On a related note: Sleepwalking into censorship – ORGs response to the UK governments ridiculous anti-porn nonsense.
‘Only pizzas are delivered’
It is funny how these stories break when they do because I am sure this list of ‘banned’ words has been available from GDS from months. Still it is all good publicity and as it has been pointed out to me recently that I have increasingly started to write in manager-ese I am going to try and avoid using all the words mentioned from now on in my blogposts and briefings!
The Internet map
Brilliant visualisation of the big players on the web – especially as it lets you see the **world** wide web beyond just the English speaking world. It is easy enough to spot Google, Facebook etc but the real fun is delving in to some of the smaller ‘circles’.
Thanks for the map!