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#askbolt

Wednesday, 21 August 2013

By Mad Mike the Wannabee Marketing Mogul

When some dickhead at Poos Unlimited decided it would be naff to invite the twitterers of the world to ask questions of Rupert's Herald/Sun loony, extreme right wing political shill, constipated, muckraker and bullshit artist extraordinaire Andrew Bolt, the avalanche of hilarity, wit and stupidity that ensued raised a new high for the Twitter platform. It also brought out a clear message that our country is not totally without humour and dominated by brainless, redneck, conservatives of the ultra boring and menace to humanity bent.

A TALE OF TWO WORLDS

Monday, 28 November 2011

By Repoman

Nicolas Mendoza writes:
Approaching the history of the Internet through the Cold War zeitgeist helps us see a sort of Schumpeterian quality in the network.

Google Becoming Leading Internet Nazi?

Monday, 25 July 2011

By Repoman

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It appears that Google is expanding upon the same sort of heavy handed censorship that saw XenoxNews news articles black banned from their news search results.

ARE YOU ANNOYED THAT GOOGLE (AND EVERY OTHER WEBSITE) TRACKS EVERYTHING YOU DO?

Tuesday, 05 July 2011

By Anonymous

Are you getting annoyed that every website you visit tracks you in their log files?

Are you perhaps a little annoyed that Google tracks every single search you make from your location; building your profile and storing it for commercial useage?

Offend-o-Meter: 5 / 5

ARE YOU READY FOR THE BIG FACEBOOK LEAK?

Monday, 27 June 2011

By The Technology Sage

Are you one of those people who posts things to Facebook assuming that your photos, thoughts, actions, whereabouts, and other sundry personal information, is "private" because you have set it to "private" or "friends only"?

THE BIG DATA MINE

Tuesday, 17 May 2011

By Repoman

Top story in the New Yorker this week documents how US National Security Agency is not only saving all of the data about those of us living overseas but now (and for most of this decade) also storing and cataloguing data on every US citizen who uses an electronic device (mobile, Internet, GPS, VISA, electronic transaction, telephone).

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The rhythms of life on the road are so predictable, so familiar. I've been out here 40 years now, and if you want to know what's really changed in all that time, I'll tell you. Back in 1957 there was no Extra Crispy.