Blocked- or not?
While running some tests for the Open Net Initiative while I’m in Korea, I’ve interestingly discovered that most of the sites that are “blocked” for me are not because the […]
Cacti, Computers, and Virility
Spending time in a country where people are obsessed about virility, I think it is worthy to look into the alleged side-efffects of digital devices, in light of increasing infertility […]
Tracking (stalking?) made easy
Sometimes it takes an article in the New York Times to realize what an advantage it is technologically speaking, to live in a small country. It’s especially amusing when writers […]
Texting during a video conversation.
Yesterday, I was waiting to meet someone at Pasgucci and was looking around, bored. I noted unsurprisingly, that half the people were on their cell phones. I was intrigued, however, by […]
Internet porn affecting sex lives of couples
Yesterday, I heard a very interesting phenomenom regarding the Internet’s effect on people’s sex lives. According to B, who is a family doctor and nutritionist, she is seeing an increasing […]
Stop blaming the Internet
I do wish people would stop talking about the Internet as if it is a beast with a mind of its own. While it is true that the Internet cannot […]
Mad crowd opposing mad cows
The ongoing mass protests regarding the import of U.S. beef is becoming a “culture” that I strongly oppose. (They are not opposed to all U.S. beef. Just those that are […]
Translating and journalism
The following is a comment I made to Ethan Zuckerman’s post on Financial models for “difficult” journalism. Translation, I believe is a profitable service, whether it be an English media seeking […]
D. Yvette Wohn 