A Canadian man faced court Wednesday on the charge of “uttering threats to cause death” after posting on his blog his desire to kill Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Patrick Fenton of Canmore, Alberta, pleaded guilty to the charge and will be subject to psychological assessment prior to sentencing.

Fenton’s lawyer told the court that his client meant no harm and that the threats were of a purely “satirical nature”.

Lesson to be learned: don’t make jokes about killing the Prime Minister in Canada, for example “f*ck, I’d like to canuck the head moose” can get you into trouble.

via: canada.com

Originally posted on March 22, 2007 @ 6:59 pm

(With apologies to Krug for using the term ‘Web 2.0’)

There are of course those sites that you know of (Digg, Netscape, and so on) but what’s the point in covering those? Instead, take a look at this thorough list of sites that are generally and unfortunately often overlooked.

In order to separate the wheat from the chaff, I’ve spent the last 3 weeks visiting and trying out over 500 of these sites, and have compiled a list of the top 10 under rated Web 2.0 sites.

1. Reddit.com
2. Linkfilter.net
3. Shoutwire.com
4. Furl.com
5. Mag.nolia.com
6. Blinkbits.com
7. Simpy.com
8. StumbleUpon.com
9. Blogmemes.com
10. Squidoo.com

For more information on each of these sites, don’t forget to check out this article.

Originally posted on March 25, 2007 @ 10:48 am

The market share of visits to Twitter increased 55% last week according to Hitwise, reflecting the massive buzz the service is getting in the blogosphere.

 

However the increase in market share only took Twitter to 41,100 amongst all sites tracked by Hitwise, and to 1,412 in the Net Communities & Chat category, which as LeeAnn Prescott from Hitwise correctly noted shows just how far it has to go to reach mass adoption.

Twitter’s Alexa stats also show continued growth with the site, with Twitter reaching 588th most visited site on the internet (March 20), up from a 1 week average of 740 and 3 month average of 3,735.

It will be interesting going forward to see not only whether the trends upward continue, but also as to whether Twitter can handle the new users, with the service experiencing regular slowness, and occasional downtimes.

 

Tags: Twitter

Originally posted on March 21, 2007 @ 5:43 pm

Yahoo! Widgets (read: Konfabulator) 4 has been made available for download. This version includes many new features for both the developers as well as the end-users. Here’s a brief look at the updates:

1. Widget Dock: Allows you to manage your widgets.
2. Updates: If there are updates available, Widgets now automatically update.
3. Widgets Discovery: If you get tired of the Widgets you already have, you can browse a gallery of over 4300+ more with just one click.
4. Improved User Experience: Many changes and simplifications have been implemented based on feedback from users.
5. Improved Performance: Decreased memory consumption by 40%.

For more details on these enhancements, and a look at many other changes, visit the Yahoo! Widgets Blog.

Originally posted on March 23, 2007 @ 2:31 pm