Aunty Spam’s Net Patrol

Students at Pope John XIII Regional High School in New Jersey have been ordered to take down their blogs, such as those maintained by students at MySpace and Xanga, or face suspension.
And this isn’t just certain students, or certain content. The ban on student blogs is school-wide. And, under the order, they can’t [...]

Cellular phones which track children and censor the content they receive are being introduced by Motorola. Welcome to 1984, kids. Motorola and Big Momma are watching you.
Cellular phones which are capable of tracking children and monitoring their movements are being introduced by Motorola, according to Motorola Chairman and CEO Edward Zander.

I have a friend who is a fairly well-known recording artist. In fact, he and his group are extremely well known in their particular musical field (think bluegrass-jazz fusion).
He was playing nearby last week, and we had a chance to catch up and chat, and so I asked him for his take on the [...]

Sister Furong, whose real name is Shi Hengxia, and who goes by the Chinese “Furong Jiejie” (which means “Sister Furong”, which in turn means “Sister Hibiscus” or “Sister Lotus”, depending upon to which interpretation you adhere), may not be a household name here in the United States (yet) but she certainly is in China.

In what has been seen by some as an unusual move, but may be a sign of times to come, the Army Times has posted on its website video footage of a terrorist sniper attack in Iraq which resulted in the wounding of an American soldier.

Did you know that the State of Ohio had something called “eSchools”, which are computer- or Internet-based public charter schools?
Aunty didn’t know, until this came across her eDesk:
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 13 /PRNewswire/ — Despite a comprehensive legislative study that says public eSchool funding is reasonable and should not be cut, Ohio’s [...]

The Federal Election Commission is considering regulating and restricting online entities and activities which run to the political, including political blogs and other political content providers and sources. Let’s face it, anyone with a keyboard, a monitor, and a brain, is aware that online content providers, particularly bloggers, played a not insignificant role in [...]

Blogs became a front-running source of information during Tuesday’s election, as millions flocked to political blogs to get a taste of early exit poll numbers, available on blogs often hours before the more traditional news media doled them out.
Nevermind that early can also mean unchecked, or in some cases just plain wrong (some blogs suggested [...]

A U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania ruled last week that ISPs must put their customers on notice before turning customer information over to a subpoenaing party, in this case the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Because customers of ISPs are often not in the same jurisdiction as the ISP, a customer may have a valid [...]

Ok, this isn’t really about the Internet, but it is about technology, and it’s important, and hey, it’s my site, so I’ll cry if I want to (oops, wrong song).
Many, many counties in the country are going to, or indeed, have already gone to, electronic voting. A large number of voters on Tuesday will be [...]

The Washington Post is reporting that the Bush Cheney re-election Web site has barred access to visitors from outside the United States, after sustaining an online attack which took it down for several hours.
Boohoohoo… cry Aunty a river. When your site gets taken down, you don’t bar access to all of Earth (what message does [...]

According to voters polled in a recent survey by Mail Frontier, 21% of those surveyed admitted that if they got an anti-Bush or anti-Kerry spam, it would influence their vote in Tuesday’s presidential election.