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Marketing Thursday, November 16th 2006, 12:05pm EST When it comes to building your brand, you want to take advantage of every possible shortcut to help your target market know you…and remember you. Taglines provide that path through the woods. A tagline consists of a few short words that communicate to your target market what your company does and how you're different from competitors. A good tagline should position your brand in your audience's mind and sum up its essence or benefit in a way that your audience can relate to. A great tagline uses memorable phrasing and creates a personality. Taglines are typically simple phrases that telegraph a message. They normally accompany company logos and are written to stand the test of time. Most taglines have a fairly long shelf life. Taglines can also help change the perception of a company. News Article Thursday, November 16th 2006, 12:03pm EST Wal-Mart Hits Teens with Gay Porn How-To Manual. A graphic sex-ed manual promoting lesbianism to teenage girls is now offered for sale by Wal-Mart Canada. Called “irresponsible and obscene” and by the Institute for Canadian Values, the material contains explicit directions for engaging in oral/anal sexual acts. The book encourages same-sex experimentation, telling girls that only 10 percent of the population is actually heterosexual, while 80 percent is “mixed” or bi-sexual. Produced by St. Stephens’ Community House in Toronto, the book titled “The Little Black Book for Girlz: A Book on Healthy Sexuality” caused a storm of controversy earlier this fall when parents and pro-family groups first became aware of the books’ content after it was published in September. The manual was further condemned for using obscene and derogatory language. Examples include a section entitled “My First Time F***ing a Girl” and the statement “If you need someone to represent God The Holiness, then for me, it’s a fat black dyke.” News Article Thursday, November 16th 2006, 12:02pm EST Gambling Web Site Draws 24 Criminal Charges. Criminal charges have been brought against more than two dozen individuals and corporations in four states in connection with a billion-dollar-a-year gambling Web site, authorities said Wednesday. Authorities declined to name any of those charged. One of the corporations is an offshore Internet company with an American counterpart, said Kevin Ryan, a spokesperson for Queens, N.Y., District Attorney Richard Brown. Ryan said the case is "one of the first times that a Web designer corporation and the companies that maintain the Web sites have been charged." Police said the arrests were made in New York, New Jersey, Florida and Nevada. News Article Thursday, November 16th 2006, 12:01pm EST Now For The British Porn 'Oscars'. The cream of Britain's hardcore porn stars are set to be honoured at the industry's first 'Oscars' ceremony tomorrow. The UK Adult Film Awards is billed "to highlight performances from X-rated actors and actresses from across the country", and will see gongs won in 37 categories. It will also feature a porn star fashion show where 15 to 20 of Britain's sexual stars strut the catwalk in a range of lingerie and revealing dresses. Madcap TV stars Dirty Sanchez will hand out awards for best film, best actress and 'best softcore' are up for grabs, as well as recognition for best gay and transexual movies. Other presenters include eighties "Too Sexy" pop icons Right Said Fred. News Bytes Wednesday, November 15th 2006, 10:20am EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Revolt Brewing Among House Republicans. News Article Wednesday, November 15th 2006, 10:18am EST Fed Study Finds Only 1 Percent of Web Pornographic. About 1 percent of Web sites indexed by Google and Microsoft are sexually explicit, according to a U.S. government-commissioned study. Government lawyers introduced the study in court this month as the Justice Department seeks to revive the 1998 Child Online Protection Act, which required commercial Web sites to collect a credit card number or other proof of age before allowing Internet users to view material deemed "harmful to minors." The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the law in 2004, ruling it also would cramp the free speech rights of adults to see and buy what they want on the Internet. The court said technology such as filtering software may work better than such laws. The American Civil Liberties Union, which challenged the law on behalf of a broad range of Web publishers, said the study supports its argument that filters work well. The study concludes that the strictest filter tested, AOL's Mature Teen, blocked 91 percent of the sexually explicit Web sites in indexes maintained by Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN. News Article Wednesday, November 15th 2006, 10:17am EST Stonewall to propose anti-gay incitement law. Gay charity Stonewall has vowed to keep a close eye on the new Criminal Justice Bill announced today as the campaigners aim to have homophobic incitement added to the law. However some sections of the community may be opposed to one section of the law which would ban the possession of online and printed porn depicting "scenes of extreme sexual violence," a move opposed by some activists who claim the law is too vague and could lead to innocent people being prosecuted despite consenting to activities. The controversial law has been put through consultation by the Home Office after a campaign from family and friends of Jane Longhurst who was murdered in 2003 by a violent porn addict. Louise Morris, a member of the bondage, domination and sadomasochistic (BDSM) community, told PinkNews.co.uk: “I could well be an innocent victim of this new bill if it is made law. “The government do not recognise an image as being that of consensual "play," all they see is a crime that could and will create serious harm or death. They want to dictate what my sexuality is and how I should be doing things. The bill will now be debated in the next parliamentary session. Search Engines Wednesday, November 15th 2006, 10:16am EST Can you Please Them All? Universal Search Engine Ranking Algorithms. Search engine specialists used to spend inordinate amounts of time creating pages that ranked well at just one search engine due to algorithmic weighting of known and very specific ranking factors. But with duplicate content penalties and increasing complexity and number of strongly emphasized factors converging, most SEO's are moving toward using tweaks to important pages, rather than what were once known as separate "Doorway pages" or alternately, "Hallway pages" meant for just one engine for dozens of search phrases per engine. News Article Wednesday, November 15th 2006, 10:14am EST Porn mogul claims he was offered 'alleged' Brtiney sex tape. A leading porn mogul has claimed he was offered the alleged Britney Spears sex tape the day after her divorce was announced. David Hans Schmidt - the man who has bought X-rated footage of Hollywood stars including Collin Farrell and Jamie Foxx to publish on the internet - has said he is sure the tape exists. He is quoted by website MSNBC as saying: "Two days after Britney filed for divorce I was contacted by an individual who indicated that he had a digital video of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline having sex. "This gentleman knew enough names and identified enough parties involved to indicate that the tape could exist!" Schmidt claims the tape is said to have been filmed before Britney and Kevin were married in 2004. Schmidt predicts the tape, if it is released, will be the biggest selling adult movie of all time. He said: "This tape would smash Paris Hilton's sex tape sales like an Oreo cookie!" News Article Wednesday, November 15th 2006, 10:13am EST Kevin Mitnick's Security Advice. Ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick came by his security expertise the hard way. In the 1990s, his electronic penetration of some of the biggest companies in the world made him a notorious tech boogieman, and ultimately landed him five years in prison. Now free and clear, Mitnick has reinvented himself as a computer security consultant and writer. He travels the world teaching organizations how to secure their information in a world of corporate spies and younger versions of himself. He took a break from his jet-setting to share some practical security tips. Clip them and stick them on your parents' refrigerator or your IT administrator's white board.  News Article Wednesday, November 15th 2006, 10:12am EST 2007 AVN Awards Nominations Announced. Wicked Pictures’ Manhunters scored an overall high of 24 nominations, including Best Film, in the race for the 2007 AVN Awards. The nominations, announced today, represent the best of the over 6,000 new adult videos reviewed during the eligibility period, Oct. 1, 2005 to Sept. 30, 2006. News Article Wednesday, November 15th 2006, 10:11am EST Microsoft plugs Windows worm holes. Microsoft on Tuesday provided fixes for eight flaws related to Windows, including three that could be used to compromise a system without any user interaction. As expected, the company issued six security bulletins as part of its monthly patch cycle. Five of the updates were tagged "critical," Microsoft's highest rating of attack risk. One alert, MS06-069, calls out flaws in Adobe Systems' Macromedia Flash Player, which shipped with Windows XP. The others cover vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. Business Wednesday, November 15th 2006, 10:09am EST Investing In Your Online Customers: A Neglected Skill. Most businesses spent time attracting customers to a product or service, trying to win their trust and then ending the whole process with a sale. That tactic seems obvious to most people. What often is neglected is the post-sale follow up with customers, particularly when it comes to online businesses. We should look at the time after a sale as an opportunity not only to improve our products but also to establish long-lasting relationships with our customers. News Article Wednesday, November 15th 2006, 10:08am EST Circuit City will try to best Wal-Mart Stores and Staples in notebook pricing this holiday season with a Compaq notebook for $299 after rebates, or $99 with rebates and a 12-month subscription to Vonage, according to bargain-hunting Web site Black Friday Ads. The site posts scans of Sunday newspaper inserts before they get delivered in papers. The deals can change, but history shows that the prices reflected in the ads become a reality. Steve Baker at NPD Techworld earlier this month predicted that $99 laptops, after all rebates and specials, would appear this holiday season. Wal-Mart and Staples have come out with $398 and $399 Compaq notebooks. News Article Wednesday, November 15th 2006, 10:07am EST Filming your neighbour having sex is legal. As long as you are not caught in the act it is legal to film your neighbours naked, or even having sex. That is the conclusion reached by prosecutor Bo Birgersson, who has just dropped the charges against a 20 year old man accused of filming 20 of his neighbours in various states of undress. News Article Wednesday, November 15th 2006, 10:06am EST Pair accused of 'Overt' Plane activity. A California couple are facing federal charges after they refused to stop "overt sexual activity" during a flight to Raleigh, authorities said. Carl Warren Persing of Lakewood, Calif., and Dawn Elizabeth Sewell of Huntington Beach, Calif., are accused of interfering with flight crew members during a Sept. 15 Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles with a stop in Phoenix. They face a Dec. 11 trial date in U.S. District Court in Wilmington. According to court documents, flight attendants saw Persing and Sewell kissing, embracing and "acting in a manner that made other passengers uncomfortable" while the plane was stopped in Phoenix. Persing was observed kissing Sewell near her breast and was also observed with his face pressed against Sewell's lower body. A flight attendant asked them to stop. They obeyed initially but resumed the behavior during the flight from Phoenix to Raleigh. News Bytes Tuesday, November 14th 2006, 11:45am EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Iran says it will complete nuclear fuel program by March. News Article Tuesday, November 14th 2006, 11:44am EST Zero Tolerance Files $15 Million Suit Against Web Operator. Zero Tolerance has filed a $15 million copyright infringement lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court against the operators of Adulstallowed.com.The suit, claims the site operators illegally copied nearly 100 of its video titles, in violation of federal copyright laws. Officials at Adulstsallowed.com were not available for comment. “I have said it before and I will keep saying it until all these pirates listen,” said Greg Alves, Zero Tolerance president, “Zero Tolerance has zero tolerance for piracy and counterfeiting.” Search Engines Tuesday, November 14th 2006, 11:43am EST Search Marketing and Social Media. The phrase Social Media Optimization, (SMO), has quickly become an industry buzzword in search marketing circles. The term refers to the practice of crafting, altering or augmenting profiles, images, movies and other files to be easily found and well shared in social media applications such as 43Things.com, MySpace, Tribe.net or Flickr, and by interested parties throughout the blogosphere. The ultimate goal of any marketing campaign is to put products or services in front of as many interested eyeballs as possible. Where the public leads, marketers, by necessity, must follow and if those eyeballs begin to congregate over there as well as over here, many marketers feel the need to move. Tens of millions registered members populate dozens of social networks. People appear to enjoy the ability to form communities and inform each other. Online marketers looking for another winning venue are therefore turning to social media spaces as social marketing tools. News Article Tuesday, November 14th 2006, 11:42am EST E-Discovery Amendments: Save Your Old Voice Mail. Save those voice mails. That's the legal takeaway regarding new e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that will become law on December 1, 2006. The amendments make significant changes to the rules of discovery with regard to electronically stored information (ESI), including e-mail and voice mail, as well as Word, PowerPoint and many other document types that corporations submit to courts during the discovery phase of the litigation process. With the new rules, corporations may need to create new procedures for reviewing voice mail and other audio files for both compliance and litigation purposes. This is especially true in light of the growing adoption of Unified Messaging Systems and the new rules on e-discovery.  News Article Tuesday, November 14th 2006, 11:41am EST Purported Britney Spears Sex Tape Hits the Web. A purported Britney Spears sex tape hit the Web this morning and the debate was on as to whether it was authentic. The 19-second snippet of the video was posted on www.xtube.com, www.heaven666.org and elsewhere. It shows a black-haired young woman giving a blowjob, but the close-up angle makes for a difficult identification. Spears herself has not commented, so far. But Web posters were already criticizing the authenticity of the video. News Article Tuesday, November 14th 2006, 11:40am EST Danish spam-filtering service goes titsup. Danish anti-spam service Spamache has gone tits up. Reg reader and Spamache subscriber Phil reports that the services stopped working on 5 October. The website became unavailable last week although its contents can still be retrieved from Google's cache (here). The reason for the collapse of the service, which received some positive reviews in the tech press, remains unclear. The email address and fax number used by Spamache for customer contact purposes have both been taken out of service. Blogs Tuesday, November 14th 2006, 11:39am EST WordPress is getting more popular by the day. It enables people to set up a blog, and even a complete website within minutes. With all the great free plugins and designs out there it is really an easy to use and complete blogging solution. I get asked for specific SEO tips for WordPress very often. Basically all the 'usual' SEO stuff is also applicable for WordPress. But besides that, there are a few tips for WordPress I'd like to share with you. Here it goes. News Article Tuesday, November 14th 2006, 11:38am EST YouTube faces lawsuit from holder of similar domain. A dealer of used tube and pipe equipment has filed a lawsuit with the aim of stripping YouTube of its domain name. Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment, based in Ohio, says confusion between its website, utube.com, and youtube.com is damaging its reputation and costing it thousands of dollars. The firm filed its suit against YouTube Monday in the US District Court for Northern Ohio. Since Google announced in early October that it plans to purchase YouTube, visitors to utube.com have skyrocketed, from a few thousand per month to more than 70,000 per day, Universal Tube says. News Article Tuesday, November 14th 2006, 11:37am EST Seattle votes it safe for lap dances. Like many residents of this famously liberal city, Iris Nicholas was baffled when the City Council last year passed strict regulations on strip clubs, including a lap-dance ban. Where did this prudish streak come from?, she wondered. No bother. The city's voters rejected the new rules by a 2-to-1 margin last week, rendering the city safe for lap dances once again. It was especially good news for Nicholas, who makes her living in black fishnets, 7-inch stilettos and not much else."I've worked in other states, states that are supposedly more conservative than Washington but are way less strict," she said after a recent stage dance at the Deja Vu downtown. "The rules are very puritanical here, but this vote shows that people in the city don't have that mentality." Site Development Tuesday, November 14th 2006, 11:36am EST Landing Page Usability: More Than Just Curiosity Factor. A landing page is the page that visitors first see after becoming curious enough to click on a link to your site. The link may be found on search engine results pages, within a specifically-targeted email, on the site's navigation toolbar or within another website. In many cases, these are links you pay for. The organic results delivered by SERPs are free, but, unless your site appears on the first two pages, it's unlikely that visitors will connect. In many cases, the landing page is the site's home page - but not always, even within SERPs. Landing pages can appear anywhere within a web site. News Article Tuesday, November 14th 2006, 11:35am EST Two to face charges for porn distribution. A woman accused of illegally distributing pornographic items out of her St. George store appeared in court Monday. Susan Russell stood Monday afternoon before Judge James L. Shumate for a preliminary hearing regarding her charges. Russell faces 15 counts of distribution of pornographic film. Russell, with a tuft of platinum blonde hair and wearing a bright red pantsuit, stood beside her attorney Ken Combs as her charges were read to her and her arraignment hearing was scheduled. Combs requested the return of a computer that was seized during the search, which he claimed Russell needed for her business. The request was granted. Following the brief hearing, Combs and Russell hurriedly left the courthouse. Both refused to comment on the upcoming hearing or Russell's legal circumstances. Distribution of pornography and such paraphernalia is a third-degree felony. News Article Tuesday, November 14th 2006, 11:34am EST 'Hot Mom' author not willing to share. It's getting tough to open a magazine, turn on the TV or watch a movie these days without being confronted by some desperate housewife with a crazy libido and great abs. As a cultural phenomenon, all the "hot mom" movement has lacked is a heated legal battle, and now it has one: Trouble is brewing over ownership of the very term "hot mom." Jessica Denay, a single mom from Los Angeles who has a celebrity following, is in a dispute with TV marketing firm Buzznation and Medicis, the manufacturer of the dermal filler Restylane, Botox's so-called sister product. The company is producing a reality-TV pilot that, Denay maintains, co-opts a brand she created. News Article Tuesday, November 14th 2006, 11:33am EST Microsoft flags Gmail as a virus. From late last week until Sunday night, the Windows Live OneCare security software incorrectly flagged the Google e-mail service as a threat. A warning popped up when OneCare users opened the Gmail Web site, telling them that their systems were infected with a virus called "BAT/BWG.A." "This was a limited false positive issue with our antivirus protection," a Microsoft representative said Monday. "After we became aware of the issue, we released a new antivirus signature that resolved the issue for our customers on Sunday evening." The problem started last week, when Google made some changes to its Gmail Web site, Microsoft said. The software maker is reviewing its procedures and processes in order to minimize the occurrence of further false positives, the Microsoft representative said. Submit nowGoogle did not immediately respond to a request for comment. News Bytes Monday, November 13th 2006, 12:12pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Ahmadinejad: Israel's destruction near.  News Article Monday, November 13th 2006, 12:11pm EST Crackdown on porn sites in court fight. That's what's playing out in a courtroom on the 17th floor of the federal courthouse in Center City, where a drawn-out First Amendment case is being heard. At issue is the Children Online Protection Act, or COPA, a law Congress enacted in 1998 but never enforced as it bounced all the way up to the Supreme Court and back down again. Plaintiff: the American Civil Liberties Union, et al. Defendant: the attorney general of the United States. U.S. District Judge Lowell A. Reed Jr. is hearing the case without a jury and will decide whether the law aimed at keeping children from accessing Internet porn should stand, be modified or fall. And with no dirty pictures - Reed has ruled against their display - the trial has become something of a wonk's drama, a battle of experts, including a university philosopher, talking about Internet filters and online commerce. The ACLU, whose witnesses have included artists and online writers, argues that the law is overreaching and that parents have access to filters and other measures - such as monitoring their children's Internet activities and educating them about the dangers of the Web - to protect minors. News Article Monday, November 13th 2006, 12:10pm EST Sex with animals not punishable by law in Belgium. A Belgian magistrate this week came to the conclusion that bestiality or sex with animals is not against Belgian law. The Antwerp appeal court judge was considering the case of a gentleman from Limburg Province who had sex with dozens of dogs. To his chagrin the appeal court judge came to the conclusion that there were no legal grounds to convict the 37-year-old from Genk. The court ruled that what happened was morally repulsive, but not punishable under Belgian law. The presiding judge said that this amounted to a loophole in the law. The man, who worked as a volunteer in an animal sanctuary, received a EUR 500 euros fine for violating public decency legislation. The assaults on the animals had gone on for three years between 1997 and 1999 and the defendant had published thousands of photos relating to his bestial acts on the Internet. The court also seized his computer. As the defendant achknowledged that what he did was wrong, the appeal court did not insist on the three months suspended sentence imposed by the lower court. News Article Monday, November 13th 2006, 12:09pm EST Canada No. 1 in hard-core sex video gaming. When it comes to hard-core sex video games, it seems Canada leads the way. Brenda Brathwaite, a game designer and professor at Georgia's Savannah College of Art & Design, says "Virtually Jenna: The Official Video Game of Jenna Jameson" is the "state of the art" in sex games. The game is the brainchild of Vancouver entrepreneur Brad Abram, president of XStream3D Multimedia Inc. "Probably the most hard-core title comes out of Canada," Brathwaite told a seminar Thursday at the Montreal International Game Summit. News Article Monday, November 13th 2006, 12:08pm EST Ten Spammers Create 80 Percent Of Spam. The Spamhaus list of the world's worst hardcore spammers include people who push porn, pharmaceuticals, and stock scams into inboxes everywhere. Spamhaus estimated that as much as 80 percent of all the junk coming to inboxes starts with one of the top ten. A multi-aliased spammer known variously as Alex or Alexey operating out of the Ukraine tops the list. Spamhaus believes he works with a Russian spam gang called Pavka/Artofit, which utilizes a vast number of zombied PCs to churn out the junk mail. Leo Kuvayev, number two on the list, has also worked with Pavka/Artofit. Kuvayev hit the ground running after a Massachusetts court handed down $37 million in fines in October 2005 against him for his operations in the US. He has yet to be caught and is rumored to be in Russia. The dark side of American entrepreneurial spirit can be found in the form of Spamhaus' number three offender, Michael Lindsay of iMedia Networks. Spamhaus said Lindsay runs a "full-fledged spam-hosting operation" patronized by well-known spammers, who pay a high premium for the service. News Article Monday, November 13th 2006, 12:07pm EST Thai Zoo To Use "Porn" Videos For Pandas. A zoo is planning to show "porn" videos for its six-year-old male panda to encourage breeding in captivity. A pair of pandas have been innocently living together at the zoo in the northern city of Chiang Mai since arriving from China in 2003 "They don't know how to mate so we need to show the male how, through videos," panda project chief Prasertsak Buntrakoonpoontawee told Reuters. He said Chuang Chuang, the male, would be played videos on a large screen when he might be in the mood. Search Engines Monday, November 13th 2006, 12:01pm EST All search engines have their own algorithms to determine the value and, therefore, positioning of websites. While the majority of SEO work tends to concentrate on Google because of the sheer weight of searches they receive it would be foolish to discount or ignore the other major search engines. Yahoo is considered one of the big three along with Google and MSN and by concentrating a little more time and effort on Yahoo optimization it is quite possible to gain a good amount of traffic. With ultra competitive keywords it may actually provide an easier way to generate search traffic than gearing all your efforts solely towards Google. News Article Monday, November 13th 2006, 12:00pm EST Federline trying to peddle Britney's honeymoon sex tapes? Just when one thinks Britney Spears' freshly-dumped hubby Kevin Federline can't stoop any lower, he scrambles to prove otherwise. After the 25-year-old singer dropped the D bomb on the wanna-be rapper on last Tuesday and cut him access to her fortunes, the 28-year-old is allegedly trying to peddle a sex tape the couple made during their honeymoon. The four-hour tape belongs to Federline, who has already found a buyer ready to shell out as much as US$65 million for the tape, rumor mills are alleging. “Britney didn't think twice about making the video at the time. She mistakenly believed that their love would last. They adored filming each other. They lived their lives in front of the cameras – even making a short-lived reality TV show of their exploits. Sex was no different to them, it seems. Now this video could prove very costly to her,” a Federline insider was quoted as saying. The interested buyer is believed to be an Arizona company involved in porn downloads. “At the moment Kev is in talks with a company in Arizona about putting the four-hour sex vid online,” the source added. News Article Monday, November 13th 2006, 11:59am EST Entrepreneurs see a Web guided by common sense. From the billions of documents that form the World Wide Web and the links that weave them together, computer scientists and a growing collection of start-up companies are finding new ways to mine human intelligence. Their goal is to add a layer of meaning on top of the existing Web that would make it less of a catalog and more of a guide--and even provide the foundation for systems that can reason in a human fashion. That level of artificial intelligence, with machines doing the thinking instead of simply following commands, has eluded researchers for more than half a century. Referred to as Web 3.0, the effort is in its infancy, and the very idea has given rise to skeptics who have called it an unobtainable vision. But the underlying technologies are rapidly gaining adherents, at big companies like IBM and Google as well as small ones. Their projects often center on simple, practical uses, from producing vacation recommendations to predicting the next hit song. News Article Monday, November 13th 2006, 11:54am EST The farce behind 'Digital Freedom'. Last month, the Consumer Electronics Association and other groups announced a "Digital Freedom" campaign that latches onto the concept of fair use--supposedly to benefit consumers. Seems like a worthwhile effort. But in truth, it's merely a return to an increasingly used playbook, an extremist interpretation of fair use to frighten and mislead consumers and policymakers. Like a trademark that becomes generic, the fair use doctrine is in danger of losing its meaning and value if CEA's self-serving claims are taken at face value. CEA has twisted and contorted "fair use" beyond its true intent, turning it into a free pass for those who simply don't want to pay for creative works. News Article Monday, November 13th 2006, 11:53am EST UK bans denial of service attacks. A law was passed last week that makes it an offence to launch a denial of service attack in the UK, punishable by up to ten years in prison. There had been concern that Britain's Computer Misuse Act, written in the days before the World Wide Web, allowed denial of service attacks to fall through a loophole. These are attacks in which a web or email server is deliberately flooded with information to the point of collapse. The 1990 legislation described an offence of doing anything with criminal intent "which causes an unauthorised modification of the contents of any computer"; the question was whether that covered denial of service attacks. When a court cleared teenager David Lennon in November 2005 on charges of sending five million emails to his former employer – because the judge decided that no offence had been committed under the Act – the need for amendment seemed obvious.  News Bytes Saturday, November 11th 2006, 12:14pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Marine to receive Medal of Honor for Iraq heroism. Search Engines Saturday, November 11th 2006, 12:12pm EST You need to think about what it would take for you to become the renowned expert in your field. You must offer content that is original and valuable to a consumer. Only then, will you conquer the major search engines. One way link building is the core part of search engine marketing. There are many simple ways to obtain one way links: directories, articles, press releases, and most importantly social bookmarking. When you submit your website to a directory, the directory has an editor take a look at your website and either approve or deny it based on their rules. If you are approved, you will gain the all important one way link pointing to your website. Directories need to accept new submissions to keep their content fresh. This makes the search engines and consumers happy. News Article Saturday, November 11th 2006, 12:11pm EST Pornography controversy penetrates IUP. To those wondering what caused a commotion in the HUB Tuesday night, let it be known that pornography was to blame. Pornographic superstar Ron Jeremy engaged renegade pastor Craig Gross in a debate centered on the pornography industry to a packed Ohio Room audience. Several hundred students showed up to the free debate, sponsored by TEN, the majority of whom were there more to sneak a glimpse at a porn idol than engage in a scholarly debate. After pushing back the start of the event more than an hour due to flight delays, the slender and unassuming Gross was introduced to a mixed reaction from an unruly audience who made their largely pro-porno sentiments obvious, early and often. Soon after, attired in a button-up Hawaiian shirt and typical black and red track pants, the portly Jeremy entered the room, arousing most of the attendees to their feet in a cacophony of applause and rapture. Gross opened up the debate, stating that he felt that the very underbelly of the porn industry involved the exploitation of women and deteriorating the intimacy of couples. The pastor also went on to say that children are often left uneducated by parents about sexuality and pornography, which could lead to future addiction. "(Jeremy)'s going to tell you he just wants adults in the industry, but the fact of the matter is, you're getting hooked on this at an earlier age, and every year it gets younger," Gross said. "Now it's about eleven years old when you first see porn." Jeremy immediately followed up Gross, rebutting to his opponents claims, as he brought up what he felt were inconsistencies and inaccuracies in Gross' arguments. News Article Saturday, November 11th 2006, 12:10pm EST 130 arrested in Internet child porn bust. One fugitive is still on the loose, but more than 130 others, including five from the Inland Empire, have been corralled in a nationwide crackdown on Internet purchasers of child pornography. None of the men arrested locally held jobs that put them in direct contact with children, authorities said. Search Engines Saturday, November 11th 2006, 12:09pm EST 13 Ways to Lose ROI on Your SEO Campaign. Whether you have outsourced your SEO campaign or are performing it in-house, here is a quick list on how to lose ROI and create diminishing returns for your business. Why 13? Well, because that's your lucky number! News Article Saturday, November 11th 2006, 12:08pm EST The word on warranties: Don't bother. It may be tempting to buy extended warranties with all those high-tech gadgets on your holiday list, but the experts say they are almost always a waste of money. The experts have done the math, taking into account the odds that a product will break, as well as the price of a warranty versus the cost of repair or replacement. In almost every instance, these warranties represent pure profit for the seller and pure loss for the buyer, they say. "Extended warranties are basically overpriced insurance products," said Andrew Housser, a co-creator and chief executive of Bills.com, a personal finance site. "At times it makes sense to buy insurance. It's a good idea to buy home, car, life insurance. But those are priced in a very efficient marketplace." Marketing Saturday, November 11th 2006, 12:06pm EST Online Reputation Management: The New PR. Generally speaking, your reputation is created and altered by what you do and what everyone, including you, says. Unfortunately, perceptions are not always based on fact, but on opinion, conjecture and rumors. Look no farther than Michael Brown, former head of FEMA, who was lambasted for the lack of government response to Hurricane Katrina. Arguably the administration fall guy, Michael Brown spent months repairing his damaged reputation through tireless interviews and appearances. OnScreen Technologies, a manufacturer of LED display systems, recently took a chance on Michael Brown and hired him to help sell its RediAlert portable signage product. An avalanche of press coverage and online buzz has since erupted, which has necessitated an online reputation management (ORM) program. News Article Saturday, November 11th 2006, 12:05pm EST Google Adsense Banning Users With Google Domain. Ionut Chitu, one of the most proficient bloggers out there, just got banned from Adsense because he uses the word Google in his blog's domain name: googlesystem.blogspot.com. The truth is, Google states (in their Google Brand Permissions page) : Don't register Google trademarks as second-level domain names. What's a second level domain ? A domain name locates an organization or other entity on the Internet. For example, the domain name www.seopedia.org locates an Internet address for "seopedia.org" at Internet point 199.0.0.2 and a particular host server named "www". The "org" part of the domain name reflects the purpose of the organization or entity (in this example, "organization") and is called the top-level domain name. The "seopedia" part of the domain name defines the organization or entity and together with the top-level is called the second-level domain name. The second-level domain name maps to and can be thought of as the "readable" version of the Internet address. News Article Saturday, November 11th 2006, 12:03pm EST Tab Mix Plus lets you customize or eliminate close-tab buttons.Everyone who has used Firefox knows how useful tabs are. One of the main enhancements in Firefox 2 is the option to close each tab individually using a tiny close button on the right side of each tab. Though this is useful for some, others have found themselves closing tabs accidentally. If you want to get rid of the close buttons, type about:config into the address bar of Firefox to access your application settings, a long list of saved options that can be tweaked. Type tabs into the filter at the top to bring up all the preferences related to tabs. To modify your close buttons, click browser.tabs.closebuttons, right-click the value (the default is 1), choose Modify, then change the number to 0. This gets rid of all close buttons except the one on the active tab. If you want to remove the close buttons completely, follow the same steps and change the value to 2. You will still be able to close tabs by right-clicking and choosing Close Tab (like in the old Firefox), but this will make the accidental closing of tabs a thing of the past. News Bytes Friday, November 10th 2006, 12:07pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Shuttle Discovery moved to launch pad. News Article Friday, November 10th 2006, 12:05pm EST Sometimes 'Obscenity' Law Is Just Funny. One of the things about being in jail is that it can leave you with a lot of free time on your hands. That was apparently the case with Marvin Brown, about whom we know nothing more than that he filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the "Louisiana State Legislative," asking the court to require the state legislature to clarify the state criminal law regarding obscenity. News Article Friday, November 10th 2006, 12:01pm EST Mozilla patches flaws in Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey. Mozilla has released updates for three of its open-source applications, namely Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey, which is a developer kit. Bugs found in Thunderbird and now patched include an error in the handling of Script objects, and errors in the layout engine and memory corruption errors in the JavaScript engine, according to Secunia, the security analysts. The vulnerabilities, Secunia wrote in an advisory, “can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting attacks, and potentially compromise a vulnerable system”. Issues in version 1.5 of Firefox that are also addressed by the patch were labelled critical by two different security firms. Search Engines Friday, November 10th 2006, 12:00pm EST Three Final Checks for Your Optimized Pages. If you are always optimizing pages then you probably know how easy it is to overlook small, but important things. The big stuff like keyword research, good copy and links, are all the easy stuff to remember because that's what SEO is all about. But it's the small things that, when over looked, can often throw the biggest wrenches in the works for an otherwise well-optimized site. Here are the three most commonly overlooked tasks when uploaded new or changed content to your website: News Article Friday, November 10th 2006, 12:00pm EST I spent last weekend at a clothing-optional spa where my biggest decisions were whether to bob around in the big mineral pool, visit with other vacationers in the hot tub or stretch out on a chaise lounge to laze in the sun. Aside from the inconvenience of not having pockets, it quickly becomes natural to walk around in the buff. And there's nothing like hanging out with a bunch of naked people to remind you what human beings really look like, especially if most of your nude recreation happens in virtual environments. Don't believe what you see in the media when it comes to physical beauty. The sexy images we Westerners accept as "normal" are literally distorted beyond our ability to emulate in our bodies, if not our avatars. News Article Friday, November 10th 2006, 11:59am EST Gay Pride parade dispute brings to the surface underlying hostilities in Israel. Israeli homosexuals on Thursday called off a weekend parade in Jerusalem under pressure of religious leaders and security concerns, exposing deep intolerance there despite an active, open gay scene in other Israeli cities. The Gay Pride parade, planned for Friday, touched a raw nerve in the holy city, unifying fundamentalist Jews, Christians and Muslims in a common anti-gay agenda. In the end the gathering was reduced to a rally in a closed stadium - because of concerns of Palestinian retaliatory attacks because of a bloody Gaza incident as much as threats of violence by anti-gay opponents. Police planned to post 9,000 officers to protect the Gay Pride march, but after errant Israeli artillery shells killed 18 Palestinian civilians in Gaza on Wednesday, triggering threats of reprisals, police asked gay organizers to scale back their gathering, and they agreed. News Article Friday, November 10th 2006, 11:58am EST Teen swallows toothbrush while practising oral sex. A Romanian teenager had to have emergency surgery after swallowing a toothbrush while she practised performing oral sex. Andreea Vlad, 16, from Falticeni in eastern Romania, initially told doctors she had slipped and swallowed the seven inch toothbrush. But when medical staff carried out examinations they realised she had no scratches or cuts on her throat backing up her claim she had fallen. When questioned further she admitted she and some friends had been watching a pornographic movie and that she had swallowed the brush afterwards while practicing the technique for oral sex and imitating the women in the film. Business Friday, November 10th 2006, 11:57am EST It's hard to avoid certain mistakes, especially when you face a situation for the first time. In fact, many of the following mistakes are hard to avoid even if you're an old hand. Of course, these are not the only mistakes CEOs make, but they sure are common enough. Take the following self assessment: give yourself ten points for each of these entrepreneurial blunders you are in the process of making. Deduct five points for those you have narrowly avoided. Your score, of course, will be kept confidential, but do seek help. Fast! News Article Friday, November 10th 2006, 11:56am EST The Internet: Tutor or Troublemaker? Porn, pedophiles, melting brain cells: A parent could fill a gigabyte of mental hard drive with concerns about kids and the Internet. But there is another side to the debate, one that explores the redeeming aspects of adolescent Web inundation. To find out more about the true nature of a child's relationship with the Internet, Linda Jackson, a psychology professor at Michigan State University, organized the HomeNetToo project. She and a group of researchers wanted to know what would happen when low-income households, with children between the ages 10 and 16, were given a computer with Internet access. (All of these homes had been without the Web until this point.) Would access to the World Wide Web be abused or constructively used? News Article Friday, November 10th 2006, 11:55am EST When Otto Christian Lindemann joined the German erotica company Beate Uhse he found a business that was "a little bit old fashioned and not really very stylish." Six years later, the board spokesman for the largest distributor of adult goods and entertainment in the world now sees vibrators sold alongside televisions in department stores in Holland and his sub brand Mae B, a chain of erotic shops for women, opening small outlets in Karstadt, a family-style department store in Germany."Nobody could imagine even a year ago that stores like this would be selling things like this," he says. "Erotica and sex is more and more a mainstream lifestyle choice."Across the world, erotica is slowly being taken up by a coy corporate world. News Article Friday, November 10th 2006, 11:54am EST Vista winds its way to market. Microsoft has wrapped up development on Windows Vista, but there's still a lot of work to do before new PCs start shipping with the operating system in January. After weeks of final testing and stamping out last-minute bugs, Microsoft declared Vista "soup" on Wednesday. The company literally began handing over master discs to PC makers this week, as well as giving them electronic access to the different versions of the operating system update, which is ready in five languages. News Bytes Thursday, November 9th 2006, 11:18am EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Democrats complete sweep 'gaining control of Senate' News Article Thursday, November 9th 2006, 11:17am EST Feds Support Utah in its Battle over its E-Mail Registry. In a blow against the Free Speech Coalition’s battle to overturn Utah’s anti-spam registry law, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a legal brief outlining its support for the measure. According to a brief filed last week, the department says that it does not support the FSC’s argument that the federal CAN-SPAM Act supersedes Utah’s much-maligned e-mail registry law, dubbed the Child Protection Registry Act, Direct magazine reported. The CAN-SPAM Act or the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act, was enacted in 2003 to restrict spam e-mailings containing unsolicited material. Marketing Thursday, November 9th 2006, 11:16am EST Ten Ways to Clear Bad Press from Search Engine Results. What do you see when you search for your company or brand name? Is there anything on the first page of the search engine results that you wouldn’t be proud to display on your home page? Consumer review sites, blogs and forums have made it easy for anyone to say whatever they want about your company, whether they be disgruntled customers or competitors who like to play dirty. If you’re in a situation where negative publicity is front and center in search results, there are ways you can reclaim search engine real estate for your corporate identity. Though you can’t make negative results disappear from the search engine indexes entirely, the following strategies can help them slip off the first few pages of search engine results. News Article Thursday, November 9th 2006, 11:15am EST Feds Support Utah in its Battle over its E-Mail Registry. VXers have created an email-aware worm that offers outrageous, and bogus, news stories about the supposed the outbreak of nuclear war and the fictional deaths of either George W Bush and Vladimir Putin as bait. The Dref-N worm, whose payload comes in emails with subject lines such as 'White house news!', 'Incredible news' and 'ATTN TO EVERYBODY!', tries to dupe recipients by claiming that the attachment contains details of a major global news story. Opening the attached file disables the Windows firewall, infecting Windows PCs with code that allows hackers to steal sensitive information. Infected Pcs churn out copies of the worm, which are sent to contacts harvested from compromised PCs. News Article Thursday, November 9th 2006, 11:15am EST Microsoft becomes master of others' domains. Microsoft has joined the list of organizations authorized by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to sell top-level domain names. Previously it had relied on Australia-based registrar Melbourne IT for wholesale domain services. A Microsoft domain service is not guaranteed: Google and Amazon are accredited registrars but do not sell domain names. Instead, Google has used its position to weed out spam domains from search results. And presumably, Microsoft can now do the same for its Microsoft Live search engine. News Article Thursday, November 9th 2006, 11:13am EST What would have been the first sex shop in the Crouch End neighborhood has now been declared a hoax by builders. A man working on the conversion of a shop in the area scrawled an announcement that a sex shop was opening. According to the Hornsey and Crouch End Journal, eyebrows were raised by shoppers and local business owners when the note appeared last Monday morning in the window of the former HAM Estates office. The sign read "This is new Crouch Hill sex shop." News Article Thursday, November 9th 2006, 11:13am EST AVN Awards Nominations Set for November 14th. Nominations for the 24th annual AVN Awards will be posted on AVN.com Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 10 a.m., according to AVN president Paul Fishbein. The nominations for outstanding achievements in adult video in 2006 are being revealed more than a week earlier than in previous years, when it was customary to announce them the day before Thanksgiving. The earlier post date, Fishbein said, is to allow AVN’s voters more time to view the enormous amount of competing products in 116 categories. Traffic Thursday, November 9th 2006, 11:12am EST Directories are best way to get one way links. Especially for new sites. There are hundreds of directories but there are also a lot of directories out there where submission is worthless. Avoid your site from submitting spammy directories to stay away from devaluation of your site in search engines. There are certain factors that when combines makes a directory a quality directory. Here are a few. News Article Thursday, November 9th 2006, 11:10am EST That's porn star Stonie in 'Borat' flick. According to radaronline.com, the man who plays the over-endowed son of "Borat" is gay porn star Stonie (aka Adrian Cortez). "Borat" producers contacted Stonie's manager, David Forest, in June 2005, he tells Radar. "They wanted to find someone who would look 13 or 14 but was actually of legal age and would do frontal nudity," he recalls. Stonie immediately sprang to mind, Forest says, because "he's a small-framed boy but has a large organ." Uh, he's 25. He's not a boy. News Article Thursday, November 9th 2006, 11:09am EST Google Sends Porn Worm To 50,000+ Subscribers. Google on Tuesday inadvertently sent the Kama Sutra e-mail worm to the 50,000 subscribers of a Google Video e-mail group. Three postings were made Tuesday evening to an e-mail list that sends out postings to the Google Video blog. "Some of these posts may have contained a virus called W32/Kapser.A@mm--a mass-mailing worm," Google said in a note on its Web site apologizing for the incident. W32/Kapser.A is better known as the Kama Sutra worm. Some antivirus companies raised an alarm about the threat in February, but it ultimately shriveled. Kama Sutra was designed to overwrite files on infected computers on a specific date. However, the worm, which spread under the guise of pornographic content, caused virtually no damage. News Article Thursday, November 9th 2006, 11:08am EST Firefox update aims to lance security bugs. Mozilla issued an update on Wednesday to address several vulnerabilities with older, but still widely used, versions of its web browser that create a possible means for hackers to attack vulnerable PCs. Related flaws also prompted an update to the SeaMonkey application suite. Users are advised to upgrade to Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.8 and SeaMonkey 1.0.6 in order to address scripting errors and memory corruption security bugs that could be used in cross site scripting, denial of service or remote access attacks. The flaws do not apply to Firefox 2.0, the latest version of Mozilla's browser software, which was released in late October. News Article Thursday, November 9th 2006, 11:07am EST Piracy losses fabricated - Aussie study. A draft study commissioned by the Australian Attorney General's office finds that the music and software industries attributes sales losses to piracy without any evidence to back their claims, The Australian reports. According to a draft report by the Australian Institute of Criminology, the music industry can't explain how it arrives at its statistics for staggering losses through piracy. The Business Software Association's claim of $361m per year in lost sales is "unverified and epistemologically unreliable", the report says. "Of greatest concern is the potentially unqualified use of these statistics in courts of law," the authors observe. News Bytes Wednesday, November 8th 2006, 11:42am EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Hamas Chief: Truce With Israel Is Over. News Article Wednesday, November 8th 2006, 11:41am EST Obscenity trial over 'written porn'. Basically, a woman was running an erotic stories website containing stories including torture and sexual abuse of children. There were NO images accompanying the written material, and the content was only accessible through subscription as it was not freely accessible to anyone. Despite the fact that the only offensive content is written material, the Feds are trying to prosecute her for violating federal obscenity laws. Nobody in US history has mustered a triumphant obscenity case by attacking written word, but now that Gonzales is Attorney-General, they seem to be giving it a long shot. Should the government be able to jail people because of offensive themes in the written word? And to think - a lot of us thought Gonzales would actually be an improvement over the hysterically overzealous moralizer Ashcroft who will be remembered as the Attorney-General who paid forty grand to have the bare breasted statues of the Justice at head office covered up. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License, except where otherwise noted. ProgressiveU.org is a nonpartisan social welfare organization that encourages an open discussion of current events, progressive values, and public policy priorities. The views and opinions expressed in postings, and in advertisements, are those of the respective authors and sponsors, and they do not necessarily reflect the official position of ProgressiveU.org. News Article Wednesday, November 8th 2006, 11:40am EST Porn a hit among SA pupils as board warns parents of perils. An alarming number of South African schoolchildren have easy access to pornography and are actively seeking out such images. This is according to a survey conducted by the Film and Publications Board (FPB), which revealed that seven in 10 Gauteng children admitted to watching pornography and 36% of those surveyed said they had watched a porn movie in the previous month. A survey conducted among nearly 1 000 schoolchildren between 13 and 17 has shown that 67% of them have watched a pornographic film. While 65% of the children say they were motivated by curiosity, an alarming 45% said they had watched a porn movie more than four times. |
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