Media and Internet giants at odds over dealing with purloined content on the Web may need to agree first on exactly how bad the problem is.
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In Piracy Debate, Deciding if the Sky Is Falling
Thousands of Trendnet security camera webfeeds have been breached and shared on the internet, including video from children’s rooms.
Bad news, hungry hip-hop fans. As many of you speculated, Bon Rappetite, the world's first rap themed eatery, does not actually exist. The gloriously pun-filled website Bon-Rappetite.com is currently the closest you will get to such dishes as the Waka Flocka Flambe . That's right, if you can stop thinking about the Talib Quali-i you'll have to make it for yourself. But take heart, because the people behind the site feel your pain. “I wish it were real” says Everett Steele a web designer and one of the co-creators of Bon-Rappetite.com. The hip-hop fan and Atlien (that's Atlantan to the uninitiated) adds, “I have no desire to be a restaurateur but Ludacris, if you are listening, Usher, Drake come down to Atlanta, give me whatever is in that case or what you keep in that room and I will build a restaurant around it.” Click to listen to the CNN Radio podcast: Steele says that the site started as a joke, a collection of puns written on a bar napkin. “Our company really enjoys fun with technology and the internet,” he explains – almost as much as they like puns involving rappers. So Baby Robot Industries , co-founded by Everett and his wife Bunny Mcintosh , decided to take the puns from the napkin to the net. “We emailed it to like ten people” he says. A year later a couple of local Atlanta outlets took notice. Now Steele finds himself fielding questions from national media including a mention in the food magazine Bon Appetit . The site has received tens of thousands of hits and spent the better part of one recent morning down due to high traffic volume. Steele chuckles at the sudden attention but he gets the appeal, everyone loves puns, he says. Best of all, he loves that people now share their own menu items like: Gucci Mane Lobster and A Tribe Called Quesadilla . All jokes aside, Steele does seem a little bothered by assumptions that the site is little more than a marketing ploy. The company, Baby Robot Industries has not gotten any gigs as a result he says. But, he adds, if you find yourself unable to quell a craving for some real Bon Rappetite in your life they will have t-shirts for sale soon replete with a logo that he says “looks almost like a real restaurant.” Click to listen to the CNN Radio podcast:
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Pun-packed faux restaurant website whets appetite for hip-hop dishes
On HealthTap, an interactive Web site, users can ask for medical advice, and doctors can gain whimsical “awards” for their answers.
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Digital Domain: On HealthTap, Advice for You and Points for Doctors
Last week, Google tracked the Web sites I visited and, like most technology companies, tried to guess who I was based on the places I visited. Its goal: to target advertising to me. The result? The search engine thought I was a 70-year-old man based in Atlanta. Read full article > >
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Beware of privacy policies: Time to clean up your digital footprint
Does the Internet have a soul? The question occurred to me as I spent an hour browsing the Web, and on inspection, it seemed to me not entirely nutty. Technology is changing the way we think about all kinds of theological concepts, such as community, prayer, ritual and worship. Why should it not expand our definition of “soul”? Read full article > >
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Rethinking the soul as the ’Net becomes more lifelike
Fuming about a billing dispute with his dentist, Robert Allen Lee posted his complaints on two consumer review Web sites, triggering a legal battle over a technique designed to snuff out negative online commentary. Read full article > >
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Some doctors try to squelch online reviews
With half the world online by 2016, the web economy in the G20 countries is set to nearly double in size to $4.2tn (£2.7tn), research suggests.
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Web economy ‘to double by 2016′
Engaged: Barney Frank , 71, and longtime partner Jim Ready , 42, the congressman’s office confirmed for us Thursday, following a report by New England Cable News . Where’s the wedding? In Massachusetts, where gay nuptials were made legal in 2004. When? Sorry, that’s all the details they’d give. Frank is set to leave Congress next winter after 32 years, and he’s said the rigors of the job and the desire to devote more time to his relationship were factors. “I have a partner now,” Frank told Charlie Rose in an interview a couple weeks ago. “I’m in love for the first time in my life.” The couple met at a political fundraiser in Ready’s home state of Maine. The Advocate described him in 2009 as a Todd Palin lookalike and surfing enthusiast. Their mostly low-profile relationship has made the news a handful of times, when Ready exchanged words with his beau’s opponents at public forums, and when he was charged with having marijuana plants at his home in 2007. Read full article > >
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Barney Frank engaged to boyfriend Jim Ready (updated)
Google doesn’t make much money from its Android phones, but chief executive Larry Page recently vowed in an earnings call that that was about to change. A push by the company to create clearer online profiles of Web surfers may turn the promise into reality, analysts say. Read full article > >
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An entertainer from Manchester says his website is swamped by people trying to research the Meryl Streep film about Lady Thatcher.
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Drag artist mistaken for Thatcher
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