More hand-picked links await your clicking for this week. As you can tell, I have once again been late with my links - my apologies. I have had my hands full with an interesting project for nearly the last month - this has eaten into my blogging time to a certain extent. Nonetheless, things are beginning to even out, so I should be back to my regular schedule soon.
Enjoy the links.
The week is definitely heavy on the politics/current events and low on the tech/design. I try to even the areas out, but this feature tends to have a life of its own. Funny enough, there were no iPhone links this week - I have no doubt they will be scattered in great quantity throughout next week’s collection.
Enjoy the links.
I know, it is shocking - I actually posted the weekly links on time. We are heading out for the weekend (again) and I am not going to be graced with an internet connection, so I wanted to make sure to post these links before I headed out. Enjoy your beautiful internet connection by surfing through these links while I lie in the fetal position, sobbing like a baby that I am without my DSL connection. See you all next week.
Enjoy the links.
Yesterday, I happened across an interesting online application that allows you to see if a site is blocked from being viewed in China. As can be expected, I was curious to see if Some Random Dude was blocked; thinking the entire time that there was no way anyone in China would give a damn about this small, unassuming site. To my utter disbelief, the service did in fact notify me that this site is blocked in China. I am still extremely surprised by this and part of me thinks the service that informed me of this is just flat out wrong. I would love to have someone (from China) tell me that this is incorrect - I have to think there are at least a few peeps from China reading this site (if it is not blocked of course).
I am a big opponent of censorship of any kind, most notably online censorship - so this obviously rubs me the wrong way. China’s censorship of the web is well renowned and both deplorable and unacceptable for a country that many consider the next superpower. Freedom of information is absolutely essential to a healthy society and a healthy internet. I try my best to keep this blog as open as possible - I want people to dig through this site, see my traffic stats and be as much a part of this blog as myself. I think that is why I find even that possibility of some outside entity blocking my site without my permission so despicable.
This is just another example of why we all need to support methods of subverting the Chinese firewall.
UPDATE: - Turns out the website above is giving bunk information. Some Random Dude is not banned in China - my apologies for the mistake. The good thing those is that this has caused some very good discussion about privacy and free speech.
I just snuck the weekly links in this time. I have been getting in the bad habit of being overly tardy with posting this feature - something I am going to have to nip in the bud from this point on. This weekend was highly productive and I got to spend some quality time on the blog and other online-related doodads. This upcoming week should be relatively quiet in terms of work, meaning it should be pretty active on this site.
Lots of good stuff on the horizon. Keep an eye out for it.
Enjoy the links.
Once this site is out of beta, the entire project will be available for download. Check in periodically for updates.
