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So, here is Twitter’s criteria for the “Top Tweets of 2011″ list it shared with ABC News. Pay attention to the phrases in bold: Over 100 million people around the world log in to Twitter every day to tweet about everything from their daily commutes to the meals they eat — but many have used [...]

There is perhaps no greater image of irony tonight than that of anti-capitalist, anti-corporate, anti-materialist extremists of the Occupy Wall Street movement paying tribute to Steve Jobs — the co-founder, chairman and former chief executive of Apple Inc., who passed away this evening. While the Kamp Alinsky Kids ditch school to moan about their massive [...]

A creative genius. American original. Entrepreneur extraordinaire. His vision transcended politics. His success showcased the power of the free market and individual initiative. R.I.P. From Apple CEO Tim Cook: Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to [...]

I’ve been so preoccupied with family matters that I’ve neglected to tell you that our tech wizard Ed Burns of BlogRescue has written a super-cool iPhone/iPad app for the blog. You can now get it at the App Store. Click here for more info and be sure to tell your Apple-using friends and family. *** [...]

Meet the new Internet traffic cops Internet access is not a “civil right” by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 When bureaucrats talk about increasing your “access” to X, Y, or Z, what they’re really talking about is increasing their control over your lives exponentially. As it is with the government health care takeover, so [...]

For those of you who use Twitter, be advised to stay off Twitter.com and stick to third-party apps like Tweetdeck or Twhirl. Twitter’s website has been hacked. Visitors will contract a malicious “mouse-over” bug that causes pop-up windows to open merely by pointing your cursor over infected links. Do not be a silly looky-loo. Stay [...]

A few weeks ago, many of you helped out as beta testers for the michellemalkin.com Android app. My website tech guru Ed Burns informs me that our free blog app is now up and running. Just go to the Android Market on your phone and search for “Michelle Malkin.” If you have a smartphone with [...]

The U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously rejected the Obama FCC’s bid to expand its regulatory powers over the Internet this afternoon. As Clarice Feldman headlined the ruling succinctly: “Nyet to ‘Net Neutrality.’” Your refresher course via ReasonTV (more background here): Adam Bitely’s right. The speech redistributors may have lost this battle, but they won’t give [...]

I had the pleasure last year of attending the 2009 Sammies Awards ceremony in Chicago held by the Sam Adams Alliance. The awards honor the country’s finest in citizen leadership and political activism — and I met some amazing grass-roots leaders, entrepreneurs, creative artists and whistleblowers. The group has just announced the 2010 winners, including [...]

Heckuva job, Gov. Ritter!

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)

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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The United Nations is trying to figure out how to get its paws on the Internet and take over governance of cyberspace. The good news, for now, is that it can’t decide on how to do it. Via Declan McCullagh: A United Nations working group has published a long-awaited report that effectively challenges US supremacy [...]

A guy who used a peer-to-peer file-sharing system inadvertently publicized a lot more on his hard drive than music files, WTOC 11 reports: Don Bodiker uses a popular file sharing program to swap music and other information over the internet. He also uses his computer to prepare his taxes. He never thought the two had [...]

Rebecca MacKinnon reports that Chinese students are protesting after Chinese authorities began restricting access to some of China’s online bulletin boards. (Hat tip: Jeff Jarvis.) In related news, still no word from Michael Getler or Philip Bennett regarding Bennett’s reported claim that “China is the best place in the world to be an American journalist [...]

An hour after Boing Boing posted a link to a flash movie on a North Korean government-run web site, the North Korean site’s webmaster replaced the movie with this message: Access to the requested object was denied. Due to some inconsiderate people linking directly to our multimedia we were forced to take the content offline [...]

Five years ago, an Internet highflyer called InfoSpace was worth more than $31 billion. Within two years, Infospace’s market capitalization had declined more than 99 percent. According to a new Seattle Times investigation entitled “Dot-Con job,” InfoSpace’s success was “created by lies and deception.” Sounds a lot like what happened at Enron. Infospace’s founder, Naveen [...]

Remember this story from last December about the family fighting Yahoo! for access to the e-mail account of Lance Cpl. Justin M. Ellsworth? The 20-year-old was killed by a roadside bomb on Nov. 13 during a foot patrol in Al Anbar province. His relatives wanted Yahoo! to violate its privacy policies and supply his password. [...]