.xxx top-level domain back on the agenda
Well, Stuart Lawley won’t take no for any answer and .xxx has popped up on the ICANN agenda again, this time with such extraordinary controls and safeguards that it makes you wonder whether the...
View ArticleDomain name cock-ups
Just seen this on a site called Easy Webber – a Top Ten guide to the worst domain names out there. It’s basically smutty innuendo but also oddly amusing in one or two cases. For example, the number one...
View ArticleDecide the Sex.com tagline… but fast
The tagline for my book on the Sex.com saga has to be with the publishers on Thursday i.e. in two days. We – meaning me and the publisher – are still undecided so here is your chance to have some fun...
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So much for Google translation
Three weeks ago, I added a translation module to this blog as an experiment with automated translation software. The technology worked although thanks to some readers of different nationalities, it...
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The New Seven Wonders of the World
About nine months ago, I wrote a post about there being an effort by UNESCO to decide a new set of Seven Wonders of the World. Well, the results are in. And, by popular vote, they are: Chichén Itzá,...
View ArticleThe participative web – follow my Web2.0 ramblings at the OECD meeting
For those interested in Internet things – and in this case the sexy side of the Internet, Facebook and all that stuff – there is an interesting conference due to start in two hours in Ottawa, Canada. I...
View ArticleSaturday night pub fight; Sunday morning huge change dawning
I am having a tough day today. A very painful goodbye at Oxford station, a long walk along the river, and now I am sat in my half-empty flat feeling hollow and a little lost. My possessions are strewn...
View ArticleToo much bloody work
It’s been six weeks since I last posted here. That can’t be good. And I have a ton of stuff to get out of my mind through my fingers. The one-day trivia brain of Los Angelenos; the US presidential...
View ArticleHey, ho, Delhi here we go
I’m writing this in that neverworld of an airport waiting for a slightly delayed plane. And, of course, as it always is, that airport is Heathrow. I hate Heathrow. I’ve always hated Heathrow. Even as a...
View ArticleThe Internet Governance Forum – third time lucky
I was at the United Nations in Geneva last week to watch what was happening to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) as it prepares for its third outing, this December in Hyderabad, India. Actually I was...
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