A wiki website called Wikileaks that let whistle-blowers post documents anonymously has been shut down by a California court the BBC reports. Wikileaks.org, as it is known, was cut off from the internet following a California court ruling, the site says. The case was brought by a Swiss bank after “several hundred” documents were posted about its offshore activities. Other versions of the pages, hosted in countries such as Belgium and India, can still be accessed. However, the main site was taken offline after the court ordered that Dynadot, which controls the site’s domain name, should remove all traces of wikileaks from its servers. The court also ordered that Dynadot should “prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this Court.” The case that shut down Wikileaks.org at least temporarily was brought by a Swiss banking firm called Julius Baer. Raw Story notes that the U.S. now joins China and Thailand in censoring the whistle-blower wiki website. International versions (such as the UK and German versions) of Wikileaks can still be viewed. You can read Wikileaks own press release about the injunction here on the UK version of the site. Boing Boing blogs that you can still get to the U.S. version of the website at 88.80.13.160. Wikileaks claimed to have over a million documents before launching in late 2006/early 2007. Permalink | Recent Headlines | Twitter | WWFeeds.com

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TV Viewers Ignore Quarterlife Premiere on NBC
There was a lot of Internet buzz when Quarterlife, a show about twenty-somethings, was moved from web to NBC during the Writer’s Strike. Unfortunately, online buzz does not always translate into offline success – just ask Snakes on a Plane. Quarterlife turned out the lowest ratings for its time slot in over twenty years for NBC reports Reuters. The highly touted online series about a group of young artists bombed in its NBC debut on Tuesday night, drawing the network’s lowest ratings and smallest audience for that time slot in at least 20 years, according to Nielsen Media Research. The show ranked a distant third place for the 10 p.m. hour, averaging just 3.1 million viewers and a meager 1.3 rating among advertisers’ favorite demographic, adults aged 18 to 49, the precise audience for whom the series was designed. The program had been scheduled to move to Sundays on NBC starting March 2. But two sources close to the program, though not authorized to speak publicly about its scheduling, said “quarterlife” has been removed from the NBC lineup. Reuters also says NBC may move the show to Bravo – a network best known for its reality tv programs. The show’s protagonist Dylan Krieger blogs in the show as Jeremy Axelrod explains in this post. The show was originally meant to be shown on MySpace.com – the MySpace page is here. As an Internet show it was a hit and it will always be known as the first web show to make the jump to network television. But as a regular tv show it was a big dud. If the WGA Writer’s Strike had continued maybe people would have eventually tuned in. More on Quarterlife’s short tv life here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. Permalink | Recent Headlines | Twitter | WWFeeds.com

Facebook Anthem Viral Suggests Some Are Getting Bored of Facebook
This amusing video (hat tip allfacebook) called the Facebook Anthem suggests that at least some Facebook users are growing tired of certain aspects of Facebook. The viral video – which sounds very similar to this viral video – blames the more gimmicky side of Facebook for the boredom – the applications, pop quizzes, fortune cookies, status updates, sticky notes, virtual gifts, superpoke, iq tests, etc. In the end Facebook is primarily a communication tool and all the add-on features may be annoying to some Facebook users. Some people are probably also tired of viral videos like Facebook Anthem. Both Facebook and viral videos are likely to continue to remain popular at least for the near future – maybe even until 2013. Posted in Facebook Permalink | Recent Headlines | Twitter | WWFeeds.com

Pakistan Temporarily Shuts Down YouTube
The BBC is reporting that Pakistan’s attempts to block YouTube resulted in an hour-long nearly worldwide blockage of YouTube’s website. BBC News has learned that the outage was almost certainly connected to Pakistan Telecom and Asian internet service provider PCCW. A leading net professional said the global outage was “probably a mistake”. Pakistan ordered internet service providers to block the site because of content deemed offensive to Islam. The BBC News website’s technology editor, Darren Waters, says that to block Pakistan’s citizens from accessing YouTube it is believed Pakistan Telecom “hijacked” the web server address of the popular video site. Reporters Without Borders, Christian Science Monitor and Boing Boing say Pakistan was trying to block all those “blasphemous” non-Islamic videos. Earlier, OpenDNS told its concerned users that it was a Pakistan Telecom problem not an OpenDNS issue. For more on the story see Google Operating System and Theat Chaos. Permalink | Recent Headlines | Twitter | WWFeeds.com

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