Geek Week: Palin’s email ails, Seinfeld campaign fails
dan tynan on Sep 20 2008 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft, Privacy
Sarah Palin’s email gets hacked, Jerry Seinfeld gets smacked. It’s been a strange week here in Cringeville.
Tag Archive 'scientology'
Is Scientology Attacking YouTube?
dan tynan on Sep 09 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Copyrights and wrongs, Crazyass cults, Video, Web 2.0, youtube
From Jon Newton at P2Pnet comes this report: A group apparently acting as a proxy for the Church (ahem) of Scientology has issued 4000 takedown notices to YouTube for any videos relating to CoS — including things like city commission meetings for the city of Clearwater, Florida (where CoS has its HQ).
To wit:
The Cult of [...]
Use a Wiki, Change the World
dan tynan on Aug 07 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, US Airways Magazine, Web 2.0
Collaborative Web sites are becoming tools for social action
(A version of this post originally appeared in the June issue of US Airways Magazine – but for some reason I never posted it til now.)
Do you use a wiki? If not, you probably will soon.
A wiki is a Web site where virtually anyone can contribute. [...]
Anonymous returns, Scientology responds
dan tynan on Aug 06 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
It seems Anonymous has resurfaced and hired a publicist. Two days ago I received an email alerting me to two new YouTube videos from the anti-Scientology crusader(s). I’d been wondering what had happened to it/them, since things had been so quiet lately on that front. [...]
