Untouchables
Yesterday, one of my favourite bloggers alerted me to the story of India banning xxx.blogspot.com/xxx.typepad.com/
xxx.blogs.com/and www.geocities.com/xxx. Speculation for the reasons for the censorship banning have been linked to the recent bombings in Mumbai.
In less than a week I see that the pressure was such that the Indian government had to retreat from it’s censorship and state that:
“Because of a technological error, the Internet providers went beyond what was expected of them which in turn resulted in the unfortunate blocking of all blogs.” – said the government official.
One domain name and one web site can create the same type of information as a blog.
Bloggers and the blogosphere- too wired, too smart, too many.
Image from here
July 21st, 2006 at 10:00 am
Suki said: “One domain name and one web site can create the same type of information as a blog.”
A blog is like any other ordinary website except for the diary format and inline interactivity via comments. It’s just some space on a disk drive in a computer which is connected to the network. The beauty of the net (so far…) is that one machine connected to the net is like any other, aside from each having a unique IP address. Diozpora exploited that simplicity- and good on him for his creativity.