Sexy Jihad

Wired reports on something that most people call a myth, and bloggers call a wet dream. It actually is possible to make a good living from blogging:
When it comes to the profit potential of blogs, Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, calls himself a skeptic.
It’s a surprisingly pessimistic perspective coming from the Brit who has […]

News.com has an article on how “the advent of Firefox and other alternatives to Internet Explorer means cybercops have to learn new tricks for their investigations“:
Internet Explorer hides nothing from police and other investigators who examine PCs to discover which sites the user has visited, according to a class held Wedensday at the annual training […]

A good article has been written at The Blog Herald about the decline of geek bloggers:
Duncan Riley> I’m never one to mince words, so I’m getting straight to it: the geek bloggers are in decline and there is very little they can do about it. But before the flames start let me explain further because […]

Wired has a piece on how people are using poker bots to make easy money:
It’s late one Wednesday afternoon, and CptPokr is logged on to PartyPoker.com and ready to play. Onscreen, the captain exudes a certain brash charisma - broad shoulders, immaculate brown hair, restless animatronic eyes. He looks like he should be playing synth […]

Pointlesswasteoftime has written an interesting (and funny piece) about where the MMORPG is going to take us in the future:
There are more people playing World of Warcraft in the U.S. today (two million) than had indoor plumbing 100 years ago. There are more people with blogs today (31 million) than had internet connections ten years […]

C|NET has written an article in what according to them are the top 10 dot-com flops. This after the top 10 web fads. An Excerpt:
The most astounding thing about the dot-com boom was the obscene amount of money that was spent. Zealous venture capitalists fell over themselves to invest millions in Internet start-ups; dot-coms blew […]

CNET.com has written a summary of the top 10 Web fads:
Internet phenomena. Memes. Grist for the e-mail forwarding mill. Whatever you call them, Web fads are entertaining, unintended consequences of life on the World Wide Web. Once the masses could put anything online easily, they turned up weird fetishes, hilarious parody, jaw-dropping narcissism, and moments […]

It seems that people are now registering domains just to put adwords on them, sorta like betting on horses:

The number of web sites being opened purely to publish pay-per-click advertising links from the likes of Google Inc and Yahoo Inc is rocketing, according to VeriSign Inc, which runs the .com and .net domain names.
There are […]

It seems some lowlives (Healthcare Advocates of Philadelphia) are suing The Internet Archive for archiving their old site. The apparant reason being that the cached pages in the archive were used against them in a trademark action suit:
The Internet Archive was created in 1996 as the institutional memory of the online world, storing snapshots of […]

The Guardian has an interesting piece on some dude getting fired after appearing on TV and giving his (pro) p2p views on a BBC program called Newsnight:
A software engineer and champion of peer-to-peer file sharing is planning legal action after being sacked for expressing his views on BBC’s Newsnight.
Alex Hanff, 31, was just a week […]