It’s Tuesday! Thanks to my Readers who still follow me even though I only post once a week. I’ll get more personal stuff up soon. For those of you who follow me on the blog, you know of my great disdain for Facebook. As much as I try to go Facebook free the more I am forced to use it. At one time I had decided I would never use Facebook again. Now I am of the mindset to keep my enemy really, really close and learn everything...

The Amish Project. One Young Man’s Experiment to unplug from Social Media. Sadly I think my generation, generation X was the last generation to grow up without Social Media. The internet was born in 1989, the same year I graduated from High School. A few years later the first truly mobile phones came out along with text messaging. AOL followed in 1995, which was the first social media platform, followed by Windows 95. Here you find a...

Tomorrow the Internet Goes Dark… Last month the internet community went into overdrive. Congress attempted to sneak in and pass a bill called SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act. Many times this tactic works. Present a bill during the holidays and watch it get passed because too many informed citizens are well into celebrating their holiday festivities. SOPA seemed sure to pass. It had so much support. This time was different. This...

One of the most odd stories I came across this past week was Google’s position on Internet Access. Google, the company whose motto is “Don’t Be Evil” released this quote from their Vice President: Internet access, while an enabler of basic human rights, is not itself a human right, says Google Vice President Vinton Cerf. “There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right,” Cerf says in...

The Title says it all. The SOPA Act is equivalent to a Corporate Takedown of Social Media which is how people today get together and talk over issues. This act has the ability to take down significant parts, if not all of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter preventing freedom of speech, assembly and freedom of the press. The debate on SOPA continues on Dec 21st The vote on the SOPA bill was delayed, we thought, till next year. Now we find out it...