Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The porn hack had been documented at the beginning of the year on the erudite BoingBoing blog - how can something that old be news? Better put in fulsome attribution to BoingBoing," we decided. Thursday 6/5/2004What is news?
[May 7, 2004, 18:10]
Microsoft Blog Service Sparks Censorship Dodging
Talkback You have to agree with the quote from BoingBoing though. What's the point in a blog if you can't say what you want on it?
[December 6, 2004, 12:22]
Firefox 'passes 20 Percent Market Share' In Europe
Talkback Yes, it's well above 20%, but those are real, 'raw' datas from awstats analysis of their logs.http://www.boingboing.net/stats/#browsers If you want stats on a big site like boing boing, you'll see that Firefox is about 40%, before IE (at 35%).
[January 18, 2006, 8:54]
What's Windows Genuine Advantage? Three Days Off Work.
Blog More precisely, MIcrosoft's WGA servers are down (link via BoingBoing), with the company saying "try again, we should fix them by Tuesday"; the result is that whenever a XP or Vista installation tries to make contact to confirm its legality, it...
[August 25, 2007, 18:59]
Spammers Use Free Porn To Bypass Hotmail Protection
News However, as first noted in the BoingBoing blog earlier this year, some spammers have found an ingenious way to bypass the Captcha protection. Spammers are bypassing a security protection that is designed to stop automated bots from automatically...
[May 6, 2004, 18:00]
Tagging Brings Search Power To The People
News BoingBoing and the European outreach coordinator of the Electronic If you've been to a technology event recently, especially one with a high concentration of digerati, you may have seen someone stand up and tell everyone what the event's Flickr tag...
[November 16, 2005, 14:45]
Microsoft Blog Service Sparks Censorship Dodging
News BoingBoing found that all of the most obvious and emotive profanities -- think words beginning with "f" and "c" for starters -- fell foul of Microsoft's electronic sentries. MSN Spaces, Microsoft's new blogging service, has sparked a new game...
[December 3, 2004, 17:00]
Firefox Achieves 10 Percent Market Share
Talkback BoingBoing also recently reported that their website gets a much larger percentage of Fx users than would be expected, something like 30% maybe? Even though Fx users only make up %10, they seem to be more internet-savvy and spend more overall hours...
[December 14, 2005, 22:06]
Firefox 'passes 20 Percent Market Share' In Europe
Talkback PC World and (I assume) boingboing. You could say that arguing about stats is a bit frustrating. But so are headlines constructed on one datum. You need to look at the whole picture and this article doesn't come close.
[January 18, 2006, 11:19]
Amazon: No Kindle For The UK Yet
News The Kindle also offers more than 300 blogs, including Slashdot, The Onion, BoingBoing, and Techcrunch, but these are customised Kindle versions that cost at least $1 a month. Amazon.com has unveiled its much anticipated e-book reader - the Kindle.
[November 20, 2007, 10:14]
