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Most Traveled People Who Paid Money
Most Traveled People Website Demands Subscriptions to ParticipateWe are accustom to a free internet, a place where we can get and share information and entertainment completely without charge. It is my...
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Own All Popular Top Level Domain Names of Your Website Address
Take .com, .org, and Other Popular Top Level Domain Names of Your Site’s URLThis is a quick tip for traveling webmasters. When you purchase a new domain name or want to use a domain that you already...
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New American Tribalism
Tribalism in America Based on Opinion not EthnicityI find USA culture difficult to deal with. I do not believe that this is because people here are particularly onerous — to the contrary, this is one...
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Social Media Vigilantes and Mexican Drug Cartels Face Off
“THESE DEATHS WILL NOT BE IN VAIN…They cannot kill us all!!” remarked a blogger who goes by the handle Ovemex (Borderland Beat) in reaction to the decapitation and torture of a fellow digital activist...
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SOPA/ PIPA Bills are Dead but the Wild West Days of the Internet Are Coming...
The SOPA and PIPA bills were wiped out of congress, but the wild west days of the internet still in dangerSOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) were two bills designed by the US...
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Be Warned Traveler: Immigration and Consular Officers Use Twitter, Facebook,...
Social media is making Big Brother fat, lazy, and listless. No longer does government need to just set up massive dragnets, special ops, and hire informants to monitor their citizens and people looking...
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How to Live Stream the Olympic Games With a VPN
As so many of my fellow countrymen are stuck on the other side of NBC’s pay wall and are experiencing a blackout of the Olympic Games, I offer a simple way that all Americans with an internet...
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Olympics Show That NBC and American Networks Won’t Adapt to the New Media
I connect my VPN to a server in the UK and open BBC Sport’s Olympic coverage page. I now have 24 different events that I can watch live streams of at my fingertips. The choice is mine: do I want to...
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Has the “Information Age” Really Made Us Any Wiser?
In a rare moment I logged into my personal Facebook account. Even rarer, I actually did something: I re-shared an anti-gun control graphic. I didn’t think much of the action, and I really didn’t think...
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Mac Users May Get Charged More Money to Travel
If you’re willing to pay more money for a high end, trendy brand computer, what else are you willing to pay more for?Orbitz says hotel rooms.According to a WSJ article, Orbitz says that Mac users pay...
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What is a Human Flesh Search?
Internet users in China are able to discover the identities of people shown in photos and videos, help solve crimes and report wrongdoers, collect information about and destroy the reputations of...
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WikiVoyage: The New Era of Travel Guides
For all of you travelers who have ever wanted to thump a guidebook writer over the head with their outdated, incorrect chuck of bound and printed toilet paper you now have the chance. It’s called...
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Internet Censorship Begins In The USA
The government approved internet in China is useless. Seriously, so much is censored and blocked that it’s nearly impossible to access information on a wide range of topics that go far beyond Politics....
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CNN May Have Ripped Off Vagabond Journey
In December I did a report on the New South China Mall — aka the World’s Largest Ghost Mall — that garnered a good deal of media attention. Business Insider, The Daily Mail, Yahoo, Jyllands Posten, and...
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Did China’s Internet Censors Forward Me to a Transsexual Porn Site?
Yesterday I tried to load up Youtube as I do almost every day here in China. Business as usually. I jumped over to a couple of other tabs while the site loaded but when I returned what was on the...
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Struggling With Virtual Private Network (VPN) in China
If you plan to access the “international” internet in China you’re going to need to use a virtual private network (VPN) program which allows you to browse from servers in other countries, thus...
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Fiber Is The World’s New Rivers, Bandwidth Hubs Are The World’s New Ports
“It used to be we built societies around rivers and oceans and ports. The new rivers and oceans and ports is fiber. Bandwidth. People settle near good bandwidth hubs,” Bunnie Huang, the hardware hacker...
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Latvia Has Super Internet
I’ve previously written about how today’s businesses and populations will start forming around high bandwidth hubs and how fiber has become the rivers of the 21st century. Over the past couple of days...
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No Internet Cafe In Tbilisi
“What’s the WIFI password?” I asked after ordering a dry martini at the Cecilia Cafe on Iraki Abashidze Street in Tbilisi. It was a straight forward question, one I’ve asked hundreds of times. The...
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I’d just traveled across Kazakhstan, went out to the remote border region with China, went down to Tajikistan and back. Each stop of the way, just about every day, was packed with interviews, site...
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I unabashedly state that I seldom use the internet for anything, especially for finding travel information. Perhaps I figure that I can figure out anything about travel in a place when I get there, or...
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Is internet access readily available in third world countries? Yes, yes, yes, public internet is often far more available in third world countries than it is in the affluent regions of this earth. The...
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The World Wide Web Has Been Broken And It Won’t Be Fixed
This is a post that I began writing in November of 2015. This was around six months after my first book was published and I was undergoing a rather extensive professional transition. I decided to...
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Online Order Canceled Because I Used A VPN
On the one hand, if you’re using public WIFI you want to use a virtual private network — a VPN — to secure the connection, especially if you’re buying something. On the other hand, companies have...
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