From this morning's Kingston Whig-Standard in a story about efforts to counteract the decline in local tourism from America and elsewhere:  •  “...popular Internet search engine Google was paid to rank the www.kingston-itsabouttime.com Web site high in Google searches so that people who are …

There is a PDF available of a new Reporters Without Borders report on control and criminalization of internet use in the un-free world at this page. I think if you are going to drink coffee, you should appreciate who works for what to get it in your mug. If you are going to use the internet, you …

I love web radio as I love radio. You don't get the romance of the signal fading in and out but crappy buffering almost makes up for it. I love media that let you know they are there. I have recently switched to using the Windows Media Player - and it's excellent listings pages - and so have had …

The good lads at silverorange, my pals, former clients, former employers, wise buyers of my furniture and...umm...oh, yea...award winning web designers have listed me on their new development web log. The referral logs here at GenX at 40 HQ are a buzzin'.  •  One point. Establishing their web log …

To see an amazing display of late Soviet era poster art created as part of the anti-alcohol efforts Gorby brought in, check out this site. One of the most interesting things about the selection is the absence of underlaying religious morality. The messages are stark and utilitarian but far more …

I was checking the old referral log here at Genx40 HQ tonight before hitting the hay when I saw that there was someone out there at "mv.com" having a read.  •  A small side track for context. Referral logs - or refer logs (hence "refer madness" when you check too often) - are a place that note …

The site. The story. Interestingly, there was a related newsgroup started in the mid-1990's, now pretty much a spam bath.  Search the group for "1996 clotted" for the hardcore bun lovers.  •  Sometimes the web does not need to provide "powerful solutions" or greater community.   One aspect of …

While I think writing on a weblog about others who do so is possibly the lamest thing I might do on a Sunday morning, I have to say that Ian Williams is on fire. His recent use of photos, his generous sharing of both personal political opinion and his prescriptions for meds on top of his daily …

The Webby Awards were awarded yesterday out of San Fran and CBC Radio 3 has won the Broadband category. You have to have broadband to get this service in both senses of the word "get". There is a lot coming at you in both sound and vision. Peter has called CBC Radio 3 and certain other CBC …