UK boxer and WBA World light-welterweight champion Amir Khan and his promoter, Frank Warren, plan to sue Facebook for allowing negative groups about the pair. The boxer, who did not always have a positive lifestyle now plans to launch legal action against the social network for allowing groups such as this I hate Amir Khan group, one of many. UK-Pakistani boxing champion Khan has many opponents and has been the victim of racist and defamatory comments on the social network, comments which were subsequently removed by Facebook. The US company refuses to remove the groups as they are part of free speech.
In the case of Frank Warren, we have removed a number of comments that violate our polices and have taken additional action against some of the users who posted them, including permanently disabling their account. However, the general groups remain as they are discussing people who are already in the public spotlight. We believe our users should be allowed to voice opinions on public individuals but we will continue to remove comments that express hate
The duo, Khan and Warren, want to enforce Facebook to react faster on flagged comments and went as far as to say that the network has become a breeding ground for far-right extremists and racists. They hope to force Facebook to change its policy and take responsibility for the content added to Facebook.
Nintendo of America is threatening sites that wrote about College Humor’s Mario and Princess sex tape spoof on the grounds of trademark infringement.
In a letter sent to The Inquisitr from Nintendo representatives Cyveillance, the firm states that they were writing to ask us to “stop using the Nintendo properties in the hidden text/visible text/meta tags and/or title and/or links of the above-referenced sexually explicit Web site.” The firm goes on to state that “Nintendo’s customers include many children and their parents. Unauthorized use of Nintendo trademark(s)/work(s) is harmful to those customers and will tarnish Nintendo’s reputation.”
The video is still up on College Humor, so we can assume that this is an isolated case from agency Cyveillance. If other bloggers have received a similar C&D letter, we would love to hear about it. If Nintendo really insists that everyone removes the funny video, maybe bloggers should boycot serious coverage of Nintendo news.
Videoblog star Justine Ezarik, or iJustine as she might be more known as, will be the MTV Twitter correspondent on the Video Music Awards this Sunday. Naturally, she outlined the whole thing in a video, so this is how it’ll work:
So i short, tweet away with the #vma hashtag if you want to participate in the VMA buzz.
Facebook has been having some fun with the folks over at TechCrunch, rolling out a Fax This Photo feature for the tech blog’s writers only. Jason Kincaid wrote a post about this brand new feature, which doesn’t exist outside of the TC office, and then spoke to the Facebook PR rep.
Hey Jason,
We’ve been testing this product since 1992, and we are thinking that we will be launching this “innovative” feature at TechCrunch 50.
The Conservative mayor of Barnet Council in London sent an abusive reply to a Labour party-supporting blogger who included him in an email criticising the council’s leadership.
Brian Coleman responded by calling blogger Roger Tichborne “an obsessive, poisonous individual”.
“You are an obsessive, poisonous individual and Labour Party member whose blog is full of lies, half-truths and misinformation.
Last year I wrote about Invisible Illness Week. Next Monday, September 14, sees bloggers coming together to bring awareness to issues that affect nearly half the US population.
The National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week runs from September 14-20 and invites bloggers to commit to writing about an invisible illness issue, even if they don’t usually write about health matters.
Lisa Copen, who founded National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week in 2002 said, “Though our illnesses and symptoms may vary, we still have a great deal in common. We can learn from one another about coping and finding the balance of taking care of ourselves yet living life to the fullest.” read more
Blog network Envato keep on rolling out blogs, and as always they look great and sound promising. The latest one is WorkAwesome, announced like this by Envato head honcho Collis Ta’eed:
The best way to make work feel like not work is to do something you enjoy, and do it damn well. That’s why we’ve created WorkAwesome, a blog for people who want to be awesome at work. After all, if you’re going to spend eight hours a day doing something, you may as well put some heart into it!
Check out WorkAwesome if you want to make your work awesome. Or maybe you’re just curious on Envato’s latest venture. Either way.
This is a multi-part series on the lessons I learned while seeking a freelance blogger to contribute to my Web site.
It should come as no surprise that the majority of applications poured in as soon as the job was posted. Many people feel that if they are first they will stand out from the pack. This is true to a point. You should also consider the fact that being one of the first to respond can label you a job board stalker, and in the eyes of the employer, that comes along with a negative connotation. It makes it appear as if you are not interested in a specific job but ANY job – and that’s a turn off. One could make the argument – depending on where your job post appeared – that the first people to apply are actually your biggest fans. Each hiring agent will have a different take. read more
Last weekend was filled with controversy and the reason for this was a worm hitting many self-hosted WordPress blogs. We warned and urged everyone to upgrade, although the most recent version of WordPress, 2.8.4, was released almost 3 weeks earlier. WordPress 2.8.4 was the second security update for the 2.8 branch in less than 2 weeks. This update was released only 2 days after the vulnerability was discovered, proving how hard the WordPress community has worked to improve and secure the platform.
Ever since WordPress 2.3, which was released almost exactly 2 years ago, every WordPress blogger receives an update notification whenever a new version available is. The majority of new releases are bug fixes and security updates. Personally, whenever I see that yellow new release notification I can not hit update now fast enough. If it weren’t for the security aspect then it is for the ugliness of the notification.
There’s also this explanation to the changes to the Technorati Authority for blogs:
Due to the vast number of blogging platforms and custom installations out there (and some bloggers who felt we were using too much of their data), we now rely more heavily on RSS and Atom feeds than in the past. Bloggers can control how much of their content they wish to syndicate via feeds. Many blogs only provide partial feeds, we are not always able to get link data from them. Thus, links from these blogs may no longer contribute to your authority.
In other words, a full content feed is a good idea if you want to make sure your links count.
UK boxer and WBA World light-welterweight champion Amir Khan and his promoter, Frank Warren, plan to sue Facebook for allowing negative groups about the pair.
