Posts in September, 2008
Last week I wrote a blog entry about Social Networking being more popular that pornography. No sooner had the electronic ink dried, but along comes another report from Optonet on content trends. According to the company’s research, pornography still constitutes over a third of all content on the Internet, although this was down almost 8% [...]
Posted in Size of the net, Uncategorized, Web Content Filtering on 26 September by Webster | Permalink |
The UK Ministry of Justice has announced that the law on assisting suicide is to be simplified to increase public understanding and reassure people that it applies as much on the Internet as it does off-line.
Following a review of the 1961 Suicide Act, the government has decided to update it to make it easier for [...]
Posted in Legislation and Web Filtering on 23 September by Webster | Permalink |
The Telegraph newspaper here in the UK ran an interesting article a few days ago. Bill Tancer, a general manager at global Internet stats company Hitwise has just published a book: ‘Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters’, and the interview was extremely interesting.
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Posted in Employee productivity, Social networking, Uncategorized on 18 September by Webster | Permalink |
1. Mindless Surfing
Problem: The internet is addictive, even for you and me. With celebrity gossip, sports, videos/music, facebook, fantasy football, instant messaging, eBay, etc., all available at our fingertips, succumbing to the temptation of mindless surfing is inevitable. How do you make sure your employees aren’t constantly checking their fantasy scores or what the latest news [...]
Posted in Acceptable Use Policy, Employee productivity, Online Security, TVT, Web Content Filtering, Web Filtering in USA on 16 September by Webster | Permalink |
The popularity of schemes to provide free or subsided laptops for students has increased dramatically over the past few years. This not only helps to further overall student learning and achievement, it also equips students with the basic skills and knowledge of technology from an early age.
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Posted in Acceptable Use Policy, Education sector, Size of the net, Web Content Filtering on 8 September by Webster | Permalink |