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Anti-aggression CCTVs: Minority Report in Groningen

Jan Simons | 16 November 2006, 11:27 pm | 1 comment | tags:

The city of Groningen has installed CCTVs with sound sensors that respond to aggressive voice raising. The police can thus anticipate fights, physical abuse, riots and other threats to public order and intervene before anything serious will have happened. Like Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg’s MINORITY REPORT. A news item on this subject can be seen at the website of…

Second Life: musicians, business, politicians, John de Mol and the essence of life

Roman Tol | 06 November 2006, 7:47 pm | 7 comments | tags: , , ,

Second Life is a virtual world that exists on the servers of Linden Lab, nothing is real except the value of real money. Players can open an account and chat with other avatars. The avatars start out naked after which you can shop for clothes at for instance Nike. The money that is exchanged is of the same value in…

Users let their guard down on social network websites, such as MySpace

Heleen van der Klink | 03 November 2006, 4:03 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

When I was at the netcraft website, I was redirected to another interesting article (from the washington post). The WP reports that internet users are very suspicious when they receive spam e-mails, but they let their guard down when they visit a social network website like

More than a 100 million registered domain names, according to Netcraft

Heleen van der Klink | 03 November 2006, 3:15 pm | tags: ,

According to Netcraft the internet has more than a 100 million websites. This news was brought to my attention by the newsbar in my gmail account, which let me to the Tweakers net website where google apparently found the news. I then googled (!) Netcraft and found the same news article there!

Jan Pronk has to leave Sudan after remarks on his weblog

Twan Eikelenboom | 22 October 2006, 2:39 pm | 3 comments | tags:

Jan PronkUN envoy for Sudan Jan Pronk has to leave Sudan because of a weblog post about the Sudanese army. The post in question can be read here: www.janpronk.nl/index120.html.

Pronk states that the army has lost a lot of soldiers in fighting the rebels in the country. The Sudanese army now claims that Pronk is trying to…