I may have been laughing at Wikipedia yesterday for Brian Cowen’s apparently well-hidden UN family connections, but today’s news is no laughing matter. Apparently Wikipedia has banned the Church of Scientology and its members from making edits to entries on its site.
It’s nice to see that not all the stories about Facebook hitting the headlines these days are bad. In among the viruses and the privacy isues you get a story like this - a mother who found her son after 27 years through the social networking site.
Reasons never to blindly trust Wikipedia: did you know Kofi Annan was Brian Cowen’s twin brother? No? I suspect he didn’t either.
1. Update your Facebook/Twitter status
Blabbermouth workers are causing palpitations among employers, who would rather we sut up and keep company business off our Facebook/MySpace/Twitter pages. Or so says a survey from security firm Sophos.
Well, well. It seems someone at RTÉ has realised that there’s a whole world of new technology out there that they can take advantage of. Say hello to RTÉ Player, the new online catchup service that will show programmes broadcast on RTÉ One and Two for up to 21 days after they’re first shown.
The Pirate Bay saga rolls on. Fresh from last week’s guilty verdict, the lawyer for one of the convicted men is demanding a retrial, claiming the judge’s membership of copyright protection groups meant he shouldn’t have heard the case.
Technology gets blamed for a lot of things. If it’s not the declining standards of the English language, it’s a basic lack of manners and common courtesy.
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Remember the Koobface worm that attacked Facebook and other social networking sites? For those with short memories, it was the one that invited you to check out an unidentified video of yourself online, usually with “LOL” thrown in there somewhere.
It had to happen sooner or later. Apparently, the villagers are revolting in the UK, and Google Street View is the culprit.
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Last.fm fans will be disappointed to hear that the site plans on making its streaming Last.fm radio service subscription only to listeners outside the UK, US and Germany. So that would include us then.
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