Web Censorship: The 10 Worst Countries To Blog From

I am sure most of you guys take the freedom on the Internet for given. If you live in a western country, this is a consequence of being able to access any website and to publish anything you feel compelled to. That is not the situation on all parts of the world,...

3 Newsletters You Should Definitely Subscribe To

When I first started using the Internet, I was a bit afraid of subscribing to email newsletters. Why? Because I thought that people would just spam the heck out of me with offers and sales pitches. Lately, however, I started subscribing to a few of them, and I must...
With Great Social Media Power Comes Great Responsibility

With Great Social Media Power Comes Great Responsibility

(This story has been updated with a newer idea here: A Plan for Social Media Sites (and users) to Give Back) Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Slashdot, Newsvine, NowPublic, Yahoo! Buzz.  Between these seven sites, traffic to a particular website can easily exceed 100,000,...
Tip’d: A Social Media Site on the Rise

Tip’d: A Social Media Site on the Rise

With so many open source variations of social media sites, there are new ones launched every day.  Most cater to a very small niche and rarely make it to 100 registered users. Tip’d is the exception.  After its official launch last week, it has already made some...
Call to Compile a List of Social Media Sites

Call to Compile a List of Social Media Sites

Hello friends!  I want to compile a list of social media websites.  All of them. We all know the basics – Digg, Mixx, Reddit, Propeller, etc. – but what about the others?  There are probably three hundred trillion of them, give or take, and I would like to...