Silly Laws in North Carolina


Posted January 14th, 2011 by Ananda Perwira No Comments »

Do you know that sometimes smart people can act silly too? What that currently happens in North Carolina is the example. Well, have you chosen the right people in your last senator election? If yes, then you are lucky because surely that people will protect your state and provider everything that the citizen’s needs. However, if you are living around North Carolina, you will be surprised that there are a lot of silly laws that are established. Some of you might be wondering how laws could be silly, well it could be if the laws is established ridiculously and not practical all, further the laws seem don’t belong to the citizens.

Today in North Carolina blog is one of the sites that you should visit to find out more about these silly laws. In this blog you will find some examples of silly laws that you can find in North Carolina. The first is, you are not allowed to sing in North Caroline if you cannot sing. It is totally illegal to sing off keys. Well, if you are visiting North Carolina and you are not good singer, don’t you dare to sing a song or you will be arrested. What else about NC Today is that there is another silly law that Read the rest of this entry »

Children in Digital Era


Posted December 1st, 2009 by Ananda Perwira No Comments »

Millions of teenagers have been now familiar with digital world on the Internet. Web-entertainment industries and communities are growing with rapidly. Club Penguin, webkinz, Starfall, and Facebook may be just a part of millions of ‘Kid-friendly sites’. Most of the fans of this websites are school-age children up to students. And these ‘Kid-friendly sites’ enjoy the benefits. For example, the creator of toys ‘webkinz’ takes the characters from the virtual-world get visitors about 6 million children last year.

The marketers and brander also give more attention on this matter. For example Disney bought Club Penguin worth $ 350 million dollars. In addition, branders such as Toyota Motor, Kellogg’s, PepsiCo, and Warner Bros. also improve the ads dedicated for children in virtual world.

Children are also very relevant in growth of multimedia technology, especially in education and entertainment. There are also found many educational sites and educational software used as a means of children educating to develop the skills and intelligence. Read the rest of this entry »

Terrorists Potentially Use Social Websites for Attack


Posted November 9th, 2009 by Ananda Perwira No Comments »

U.S. intelligence agencies concerned with tricks of terrorists who may using technology of communication such as Twitter or Facebook social network website to plan and manage their attack. A report from the U.S. Army on the Internet reveal the number of users of mobile devices and web technology, which can be used for terrorist attack. The main news about Twitter potentially become terrorist operational media has been published in Los Angeles, July.

Reports in LA, Twitter has been used by some actors to support extremist ideology and perspective. Terrorists could theoretically use Twitter social network in the United States as an operational media. In addition, satellite navigation and mapping tools also have been discussed in the forum. Read the rest of this entry »

Social Network Sites Beat Popularity of Porn Sites


Posted September 15th, 2008 by Ananda Perwira No Comments »

The porn site seems to have been decreased in overall popularity of site searching traffic on Internet. In fact, traffic to social network sites such as Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, has overcome porn site searching. The survey was presented by general manager of research company Hitwise, Bill Tancer in new book “Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why It Matters.” This will soon become a major indicator of trend that is in the future.

Porn sites searching has decreased about 10 percent of all search queries, compared with ten years ago as much as 20 percent. For people 18 to 24 years old, they know where they can find favorite online adult sites, but Tancer found that they are not interested anymore with adult sites. In his opinion, this is because they have spent almost their time to buzz around social network site. Read the rest of this entry »

MySpace Agreed Protection Issue for Children


Posted January 5th, 2008 by Ananda Perwira No Comments »

In the middle of high pressure and public discussion about the rule for children protection from violence, MySpace agreed taking steps to protect children and teenagers from influence of any online sexual violance and other types of fraudster. One of MySpace policy is making age verification system (age-verification technology) for member access.

MySpace as one of largest social network site that many of its members consist of both children and adolescents will create a regulation that is intended for professional companies to control their operations. Besides that, other social network sites will also participate on this policy. As delivered in Yahoo News, people must be responsible to tell children that when they communicate through the Internet, they not only are typing through computer, but are also introducing and sharing information about their self to other people. Read the rest of this entry »

Disclosure Policy


Posted January 1st, 2008 by Ananda Perwira No Comments »

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me without bias or influence from others. While this blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation, it does not publish in a way that is contrary to my personal integrity. The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this blog. I am free to reject posts that I do not agree with or approve. My writing represents the truth and I do not write about items that I do not personally support. This blog does not contain any content that might present a conflict of interest but it does follow international ethical guidelines and best practices for the internet and online advertising.