mtadros, Author at Education and Technology Hub

youtube stopped for 45 minutes

February 27, 2008 mtadros

This is amazing and unbelievable. When Pakistan decided to block youtube this past week because of it contains content it deemed offensive [in particular the infamous cartoons of the Prophet], it ended up blocking youtube from the entire world. One of its ISPs rerouted youtube into a ‘black hole’. It amounted to a denial of service attack – albeit unintentional.

Here is a technical analysis of how this happened link

What does this tell us about the status of the internet? that it is so fragile, it is scary.

buzz words

February 17, 2008 mtadros

blogtopia – blogistan – moblog – converging technologies – mashups – locative media – social media – social networking – micro blogging – socialmedia metrics – semantic web

cutting off the internet: we knew it was coming

November 23, 2007 mtadros

I wonder what Tim Berners Lee thinks of that. Sarkozy of France decided to ‘cut off the Internet’ on anyone who downloads music or any ‘illegal’ downloads:

music and films without paying for them could find their web access shut down by a government body, under a ground-breaking industry agreement backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy. [link]

I am sure the Bush admin will be very pleased. They now have a ‘buddy’ in supporting corporate interests.