It’s with tremendous pride and excitement that I use my first blog post in over a month to announce the launch of Legacy Locker. I’m one of the founders of the site, and I wanted to share a little backstory to where it came from and how it got here. Two different personal events occured ...

A handful of European organizations—including police, credit card processors, and service providers—have banded together to fight the spread of child pornography online. The group will be called the European Financial Coalition (EFC) and will be funded in part by the European Commission,...

How to persuade a local radio arts and music station that they should podcast? I'm a newbie at a radio station. I host a music channel that's one of a couple of others the station offers online. So it's available on HD and also from their web site. The host of one of the other online channels, Alexa...

Parece claro que la Red es para quien se la trabaja; y el sentido del humor, una condición indispensable para casi todo, incluso para avanzar en los retos de la política 2.0. Si no estás muy al tanto del tema, tienes una buena explicación en elcorreodigital.com. Posts relacionados: El PSOE manti...

Evolución del registro de dominios entre el cuarto trimestre de 2007 y 2008. El número de dominios de Internet se elevó a 177 millones al cierre de 2008, según el último informe de Verisign (PDF, en inglés). Esta cifra supone un incremento del 16% con respecto a 2007, si bien la tendencia de c...

Network Security, IT, Software Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: When Websense (NASDAQ: WBSN) announced a couple of weeks ago it had acquired Defensio, a Canadian spam filtering Web service, I realized the San Diego software developer had morphed into something bigger and more robust than I remembered. ̶...

In a recent post, I discussed the travails of Muslim girls who are trying to obtain an education in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan [Schoolgirls in Afghanistan]. In that post, I reported how members of the Taliban have done all they could to stop girls from getting an education -- everything from ...

I have not written anything about the on-going troubles between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors. It's a serious subject, but a little off the topics I prefer to cover in this blog. Some situations, like the one in the Middle East, become intractable because both sides embrace positions that are...

The thing I hate most is falling into a music coma. It’s this thing that happens every few months where I listen to the same thing over and over again. Finding new music isn’t hard, but finding something you like is. I try my best to remove the step that involves having to wade through p...

For security reasons, President Obama was told he would have to relinquish his Blackberry -- a challenge he has apparently overcome. But along with his new encrypted Blackberry came a new email address -- one that is apparently a closely guarded secret ["Symbol of Elite Access: E-Mail to the Chief,"...