Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 11:18PM Omar Morales Adtwik.com will be shutting down permanently in or around Jun 8th 2012. Its been hell of a ride and we thanks all of our regular readers for their support.
Adtwik.com sera cerrada permanentemente en o cerca de Junio 8 de 2012.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 9:20PM Omar Morales Saw this today while walking around taking photos for Aday.org. Very nice.
Monday, May 7, 2012 at 12:53AM Omar Morales Like some of you may know I have a Recommended Links sections were I recommend some web sites that I think are great resources to the online community.
One of them was BoingBoing I have been a BoingBoing reader for years and I have to give them credit for always been in the look for things that matters.
But I have also been very disanointed at some of their actions and borderline fanaticism. I have come to find BoingBoing a hypocrite site when it come to defending censorship. The site is always attacking others they believe are censoring and manipulating information. And that's a good thing but when they start to censor & attack others for having a different opinions that's just plain wrong.
BoingBoing have an almost fanatic devotion to been Pro-Choice (Pro-Abortion). This is not an attack on their choice in the abortion issue just on the way they defend it. I have big big issues with fanatics of any kind as I believe it blind other way rational people into myopic ones that only want to see what they believe. This go to Pro-Liferes, Pro-Choice, Religions and political fanatics among many others.
I also have issues with censorship of any kind. I don't like when others try to censor the true just because they don't like it or because is just not what they like. It's even worst when you are suppose to be a anti-censorship champion like BoingBoing paint itself.
So here is the issue that push me over. Every time BoingBoing posted a pro abortion article it will censor any comments made with a different opinion. When someone make an argument against abortion it will result in the censoring of that comment even when the comment were non confrontational or pro-choice fanaticism just a different opinion to what BoingBoing posted.
I had always believed that everyone with an opinion should be able to express it in a civilized & respectful manner and be free to express it without fear of attack, mockery or censorship. I don't like when people try by any means to push their believe onto others like many but not all pro-choice and pro-lifers do.
So is just sad that a site with a well know anti-censorship stand resort to censorship just to defend its own opinion. That's why I no longer go to BoingBoing or recommend them.
Friday, April 27, 2012 at 9:53PM Omar Morales What can I say? I just love time-lapse videos and here is a nice one from Earth taken from the International Soace Station.
Timelapse: EARTHEREAL from Adonis Pulatus on Vimeo.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 5:35PM Omar Morales Today I wrote a post earlier today were I whined about Dropbox plans pricing and how I hope they improve with the new competition from Microsoft & Google.
But I guess I will have to scratch Google out as reading the term of service makes my skin crawl. Here are exerps from Dropbox, Microsoft Skydrive and Google Drive term of service.
DROPBOX"By using our Services you provide us with information, files, and folders that you submit to Dropbox (together, "your stuff"). You retain full ownership to your stuff. We don’t claim any ownership to any of it. These Terms do not grant us any rights to your stuff or intellectual property except for the limited rights that are needed to run the Services, as explained below."
SKYDRIVE"Except for material that we license to you, we don't claim ownership of the content you provide on the service. Your content remains your content. We also don't control, verify, or endorse the content that you and others make available on the service."
GOOGLE DRIVE"When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content."
