Watch out bloggers and web publishers. Don’t do anything too controversial or you may find your site shuttered by the law. In a very strange and clearly tech illiterate move, a California judge ordered the removal of the domain name for a web site (Wikileaks.org) that publishes leaked documents posted anonymously by people around the world. It’s a lame move because the site is still accessible at its IP address ( http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks ). Apparently,...
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Adventure’s Edge At Last
It’s been a long road, but a couple weeks ago we got the OK to launch the new Adventure’s Edge web site. We’re pretty proud of this project because of the various tools we either built or incorporated in to the site. We’re quite proud of the design. It’s simple and straightforward, but with the Flash on the home page and some dynamic tools, it’s a vast improvement over their old site. We used...
SEO Magic!
I’ve spent a lot of time reading and studying the esoteric arts of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is the voodoo that seems to make some web sites come up at the top of the lists at Google or Yahoo when people search on certain combinations of words. I long ago came to the conclusion that the real secret is actually rather simple: have good content and get a lot of incoming links to...
The Internet Helps Save Energy
In spite of the what seems like huge sucking sounds coming from massive server farms and data centers soaking up electricity it appears, according to a new study, that the “net” affect of the growth of the Internet is a savings in energy usage. “Indeed, all America’s servers – the computers that direct traffic on the Internet – and the systems that cool them use about 1.2 percent of the nation’s electricity, according to...
Broadband Task Force Report Taken to Task
When the Governor’s Broadband Task Force released its report (PDF) a couple weeks ago there was some optimism and excitement that practical steps would be taken to advance the broadband infrastructure in the state particularly in rural and under served areas. Some of us believe that government needs to take the lead as clearly the free market is failing us as we fall further behind the rest of the world. But the Eureka Reporter...
Prosperity! Revamp
After about a year and a half of struggle we finally unveiled the third version of the Prosperity! Network’s new web site. The saga of this project is a good example of design by committee that is the death of many projects and results in cost overruns on many others. In spite of some valiant efforts to define the goals and features of the site from the beginning, the project kept morphing. There literally...
