“Few people have heard of ACTA, or the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, but the provisions in the agreement appear quite similar to – and more expansive than – anything we saw in SOPA. Worse, the agreement spans virtually all of the countries in the developed world, including all of the EU, the United States, Switzerland and Japan.” – If You Thought SOPA Was Bad, Just Wait Until You Meet ACTA – Forbes. Continue reading
Google announced, starting today, we’re updating our Top Search Queries feature to make it better match expectations about search engine rankings. “The new definition will take the average of the top ranking of your site for all searchers, as opposed to all URLs listed and average that. In the past, they would take all the positions of your rankings and average them together, now they are taking only the top positions.” — Google Changes Definition Of Average Search Ranking Position. Continue reading
So much for my goal of becoming a more organized blogger in 2012. After two wicked storms featuring wild winds that delivered snow and freezing rain and toppled trees over the power lines leaving us without power for almost two days each time – I’m back. I have trashed my schedule and started over. Continue reading
My regular readers will be shocked to see my blog in black but there’s an important reason for that. Today Jane Wells made the Anti-SOPA announcement millions of WordPress.com bloggers have been waiting to hear. WordPress.com is joining, Reddit.com, Wikipedia.org, Boing Boing, Mozilla, and Google.com in the protest against Stop Online Piracy Act(SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) which are being discussed in Congress. Continue reading
