First published in Global Voices Online. Internet users in Bangladesh are not able to access YouTube since Friday (March 6, 2009) evening. Soon people discovered that other Social Media and file hosting/sharing sites like Esnips, mediafire etc. were also not accessible. Apparently these are blocked ...

Tonite Entrecard’s Jawsome Said This about EuroYank: There is no ban attached to said users account. He blog listing was merely deleted. Which is not permanent. He may reapply at any time and his blog will be sent through the approval process. SMDH..WTF Entrecard ? I really don’t underst...

Links for February 26th 2009 through March 6th 2009: Australians spend much more time online | Australian IT - “The Nielsen Online Internet and Technology Report surveyed more than 2000 Australians and found the average Aussie spent 89.2 hours a week consuming media last year or almost 80 per ...

Is there a revolution building on the Entrecard Blogging Scene ? Lets look at a few things that we know about; one real; one well.. Apparently when our friend EuroYank disappeared from Entrecard the other day it wasn’t because he left - he was removed. check out this blog and note to entrecard...

You'll have heard The Eagles' Life In The Fast Lane, of course. Did you manage to listen to it without fainting clean away? After 40-odd years, Birmingham radio station Eagle 106.9 FM has started to remove an offensive bit from the song: We’ve been up and down this highway/ haven’t seen a goddam...

For the last year and a half, I have published a blog over at CNET, focusing on security, privacy and technology policy. Well, as of March 4, that business relationship is now over. As my regular readers will know, for the past few months, I have been hammering the Obama Administration for its close...

Lost in this clip from the 1958 movie "Teacher's Pet" is the class war embedded in the plot. Clark Gable (right) plays a newspaper editor who considers journalism a trade, Doris Day a journalism professor who considers it a profession. In the end Gable's boss is flattered and the two sides compromis...

On March 3, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., took the Fairness Doctrine and its often overlooked potential threat to Christian radio to the Senate floor. The Oklahoma senator gave a lengthy floor speech and mentioned that Sen. Jim DeMint's effort to force an up-or-down vote on the Fairness Doctrine issue, ...

  We would be more outraged about this news of a Kevin Smith film being censored if our initial reaction to this news wasn't "Kevin Smith is making another movie?" What juvenalia has he left unplumbed? Is there still more minutia of Star Wars yet to be discussed on the big screen?...

On Saturday's Final Word we had KNSI program director and talk host Dan Ochsner, more often known around St. Cloud as simply The Ox. Dan had reported to me on Thursday last week that he had had his press credentials to the floor of the Minnesota State Senate revoked after holding them for many years...