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Gmail has been down for at least an hour.
But don’t complain too loudly about it.
You know how Rahm Emanuel likes to exploit a crisis…and the last thing we need is another Email Czar.
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Tip: If you go to igoogle, you should be able to access your gmail.

GoDaddy.com, the domain registration giant, was founded by tech entrepreneur and decorated Vietnam veteran Bob Parsons.
The company pays tribute to Independence Day with a wonderful video celebration here. Isn’t it nice to see an Internet company embrace American patriotism?
More about Parsons here.
(Hat tip – reader Elyse at Eagles Up)

Would Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales have done this for Fox News or the Washington Times? And if he had/has, wouldn’t the New York Times editorial page blast him for colluding to suppress information from the public?
For seven months, The New York Times managed to keep out of the news the fact that one of [...]

Ross Kaminsky, a recent convert to Twitter, has a nice overview for newcomers on the medium and its role in the Iranian uprising. Excerpt:
The impact of Twitter on events in Iran has been noticed by our usually dictator-compliant State Department, which risked insulting the ayatollahs by contacting Twitter to request they postpone a scheduled system [...]

Information providers and their conduits, like people, just want to be free. No matter. Outmaneuvered by dissidents on Twitter, Facebook, and blogs, Iran has declared war on the Internet.
It’s a war the Luddite mullahs will lose:
Iran’s most powerful military force is warning online media of a crackdown over their coverage of the country’s election [...]

So, the president is going to tell us who his computer security czar soon.
Let’s hope it’s not the same person who ran the Obama campaign’s grossly insecure online credit card donation operations.

Yesterday, I noted that Silicon Valley expressed its displeasure with President Obama’s plans to require corporations to pay billions of dollars in U.S. taxes on foreign earnings that they have previously been allowed to defer.
Today, there’s more whining from the tech companies that boosted Obama’s campaign and filled his coffers.
Calll the wahmbulance (hat tip – [...]

Don’t be evil.

This would be funny if it were not so pathetic. Newspaper publishers want Google to adjust its search engine rankings to give preferential treatment to Old Media. The industry is in trouble and it’s looking for any help it can get — and anyone to blame:
Major media companies are increasingly lobbying Google to elevate their [...]

DhimmiTube.

Top Conservatives on Twitter have launched a new action project targeting the “three little piggies” — UAW President Ron Gettelfinger, GM CEO Rick Wagoner, and Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli. I know I’ve got a lot of fabulous Photoshoppers out there. This one sounds fun. So go and check out Operation Three Little Piggies here and [...]

Watch it on YouTube!
Writes National Post’s Kelly McPharland: “As the Keynesian revival sweeps the policy establishment, here’s a fine antidote. It’s a video on the Keynesian myths behind the global push to crank up government spending and the size of government to stimulate the economy. In less than 8 minutes, Dan Mitchell, a [...]

Several weeks ago, I spoke with GWU law professor Jeffrey Rosen about my curious experiences with YouTube’s mystery censors. Longtime readers will remember the battle over “First, They Came.” For the past two years, my attempts to re-upload the little video about the Mohammed Cartoons and violent jihad were blocked. Other users were able to [...]

Government domain names (”.gov”) for websites are supposed to be restricted to eligible government organizations and programs.
Does Barack Obama’s transition website, www.change.gov — which is basically a souped-up version of his campaign site — qualify? As Ed Morrissey pointed out yesterday, “The incoming administration technically has no status as a government organization or program until [...]

“The Case Against Senator Obama’s National Chief Technology Officer.”

Web slime.

Double standards.

Just Google it.

Takedown.

Love hurts.

Foiling Chinese Net Nanny.

AllahTube. (Photoshop credit – Jawas)

Punked.

Scrappleface fights jihad on YouTube with caption sabotage:

Live. Unedited. Unfiltered.

Don’t try to escape.

How does your garden grow?

CAIR brags:

They taught her well:

(Hat tip – American Infidels)

Giggle.

Time to defoliate.