Former professional journalist turned citizen journalist and professional Web Designer discussing the world of technology, culture and the two converging.
The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyberattack by an unknown “foreign entity,” prompting a federal investigation, NEWSWEEK reports today.
At the Obama headquarters in midsummer, technology experts detected what they initially thought was a computer virus—a case of “phishing,” a form of hacking often employed [...]
What is ACTA?
In October 2007 the United States, the European Community, Switzerland and Japan simultaneously announced that they would negotiate a new intellectual property enforcement treaty, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA. Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Canada have joined the negotiations. Although the [...]
China has successfully rocketed three astronauts to space on a mission set to include the nation’s first spacewalk.
The Shenzhou 7 spacecraft launched around 9:10 a.m. ET (1310 GMT) aboard a 19-story Long March 2F rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China’s Gansu province.
The mission marks China’s third manned spaceflight, five years after its initial [...]
In Japan, girls are crazy over virtual boyfriends. Webkare (Web Boyfriend in Japanese), a mix between a social network and dating simulation site, is Nippon’s newest web sensation. Geared exclusively towards girls, the site attracted over 10,000 members just 5 days after its release on September 10, racking up 3.5 million page views in the [...]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The federal government is poised to take a more central role in resolving the credit crisis by providing a way for banks to get rid of mortgage-related assets that have been hard to value and harder to trade.
Leaders from both the House and the Senate were briefed on Thursday evening by [...]
In Thomas L. Friedman’s book The World is Flat, he discusses how with the fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/1989, the World became flatter, societies became freer and the global economic systems began to standardize.
It’s now 2008 and globalization is more prevelant than ever. On a daily basis I get emails from designers all [...]
Political graffiti
Originally uploaded by ngawangchodron
This is a play on the cartoon Pinky and the Brain that originally was part of the Animaniacs cartoon show. What’s scary is that this is how the rest of the world sees our country. The fact that our neighbors to the North (and around the World) think that this [...]
The Pirate Bay wants to encrypt the Internet protect privacy on the Internet. This is an interesting concept. A little ambitious maybe, but maybe it’ll happen.
With governments all over cracking down on illegal copyright infringement it’s obvious why the developers at one the the Internet’s biggest torrent sites want to do this. But despite the [...]
Honestly, what can the world expect from the last communist powerhouse. China is all about development and growing and if for some reason there are people who might draw light on it’s corruption during this growth spurt, it is no surprise that the Communist government in charge will want to quiet it as fast as [...]
It’s amazing, Obama like JFK is breath of fresh air. Kennedy, when he ran for president and eventually won, was one of the youngest presidents ever and he was the first Catholic. Obama, if elected, will also be one of the youngest and the first Black man to be president. On his world tour, Obama’s [...]
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