On 11 February 2012, many thousands took to the streets throughout Europe in a co-ordinated protest against ACTA - the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
While cell phones were once used to call 911 to report a crime or an accident, it is now popular to simply stand around and film what is happening so it can be posted on the Internet and shown to the world.
Sydney -
The rise of online freelance writing has created a very strange dichotomy. On the one hand there are huge numbers of extremely low paid jobs. On the other hand, writing rates at the top scale are rising exponentially.
Anonymous, famous for targeting certain websites, especially since the SOPA/PIPA debacle, has now taken down the CIA website. The website is currently unavailable with an error 101.
Yesterday an enraged father posted a YouTube video reading a rant on his daughter’s Facebook wall about him, and then he addressed each point, and later "executed" her laptop.
Michelle Obama continues to promote her Let's Move fitness campaign across the U.S. New England fans are arrested after their Super Bowl loss. Why are bears committing suicide in China? These are the top stories on DigitalJournal.com
Sacramento -
An 18-year-old girl from Sacramento, California, has a strange addiction — eating plastics. According to Kailyn, she has eaten over 60,000 plastic items in the past 11 years.
Sydney -
Internet experts are baffled by a denial of service attack on a business called Money Management. The attack was made using a botnet having 4500 computers in Mexico and South America. The fact is that denial of service attacks are now buyable.
This is a selection of video clips originally uploaded to YouTube by Alyssa Bustamante, the 18-year-old teenager sentenced to life in prison for the "thrill killing" of 9-year-old Elizabeth K.Olten. Also included are videos of Alyssa uploaded by friends
Washington -
The Pew Research Center has released a report covering the social and emotional climate that U.S. adults experience on social networking sites. The findings of this new report show that generally more adults than teens reported positive results on SNS.