del.icio.us links for May 25, 2007

del.icio.us links for May 25, 2007

1. Twelve Simple Steps to Protect Your Identity Online – FOXNews.com

   Here are a dozen tips, in no particular order, to help keep your identity and personal information safe. Finally, check out the links below to three apps that can help ensure that John Smith doesn’t become the property of John Q. Public.

2. ‘This is in bad taste’ – Nearly three weeks after Madeleine McCann’s disappearance from a Portuguese holiday apartment, the British media is starting to question its blanket coverage of the hunt for the four-year-old. – News24.Com

   The Guardian’s Simon Jenkins was among the first to break ranks last Friday, calling the coverage “absurdly over the top … prurient and tedious beyond belief,” and questioning the ethics of airing a family’s grief at peak time.

3. Surfers duped by Mugabe spoof site – IOL.Com

   Web surfers are flocking to an Internet spoof site that claims to be the personal homepage of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s. The site has had more than 307 000 visitors since it was registered in neighbouring South Africa in 2002.

4. Family defends Australia’s Big Brother death secret – DigitalJournal.Com

   24 year old Australia’s Big Brother contestant, Emma Cornell, has not been told of the death of her estranged father after he had asked for her not to be told until she had finished her stay in the BB house.

10 more articles after the Jump

1. Robert Mugabe – President of Zimbabwe

   Dear Comrades After the recent spate of biased and mischievous reporting by the colonialist foreign press, I have ultimately decided to reveal to you, the honest and hard-working citizens of Zimbabwe, a little more of Mugabe – The Man.

2. Cribs: Army Iraq Edition – LiveLeak.com

   They may be banned from watching YouTube but that hasn’t stopped them from making videos to post on there – “A parody of MTV’s Cribs show done in Iraq. From The source: “The actor was our battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Cherry.” “

3. Metal Documentary and more blogs – IraqBlogCount.blogspot.com

   The left side bar on this page has links to 138 active blogs from people in Iraq, ranging from kids to active soldiers and journalist,

4. Estonia accuses Russian government of hacking – CNews.ru

   The attacks on Estonian websites started soon after official Tallinn announced its intention to remove the Soviet war memorial from the city’s center and exhume the remains of soviet soldiers buried near the monument.

5. Russia: providers “close down” the mobile content – CNews.ru

   The Russian mobile content provider, Mobicom (Infon trademark) has implemented the technical DRM-system (Digital Rights Management) for copyright protection. Russian content providers already have experience of implementing DRM.

6. iPhone hurries to Russia – CNews.ru

   A source in the company working with Apple on the Russian market told CNews Apple iPhones will appear on the Russian market in Spetember -October 2007. The phone was expected to appear on the Russian market not earlier than 2008.

7. Moscow TV tower catches fire… again – DigitalJournal.Com

   Ostankino TV-tower, Moscow Its the third time that the 540 meter (1,770ft) tall Ostankino television tower in Moscow, Russia has caught fire. One of the tallest free-standing structures in Europe, first caught fire in 2000, and then again in 2005

8. YouTube Sued Again – Fatal Car Crashes are Copyrighted? – Mashable.Com

   The lawsuit has an interesting angle to it. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority requested YouTube to remove it, and YouTube complied. However, the footage was copied and upload it to other video sharing services, like Break.com.

9. Bebo and Lonelygirl15 creators launch UK version – Reuters.Com

   The creators of the online phenomenon “Lonelygirl15″ have joined forces with social networking site Bebo to create a British spin-off story that will use brands to help define the characters.

10. Facebook’s plan to hook up the world – CNN.Com

    In late May, Mark Zuckerberg, got up in front of several hundred journalists, analysts, and industry leaders in San Francisco at F8 (think of it as “fate”) to say that Facebook would no longer be just another social-networking site. Expansion