Articles

The Artistry of Internet Censorship

With CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) starting to make headlines in recent days I thought it only appropriate to take a look back at how well SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) were received by the online community. Hundreds of websites including Google, Wikipedia and WordPress blacked out in creative ways in protest. SOPA and PIPA would have provided the government/Hollywood the ability to shut down foreign websites that they deem are "facilitating the commission" of copyright infringement. Those of us who prefer an open web saw this as an act of censorship and as much as I would like to go on a rant this particular article isn't centered around...

Plugins

PictureBook

While doing our usual run of site updates and code adjustments, we ran into a small issue: how to display WordPress bookmarks with both text and images. Utilizing the 'Links' tab ( WordPress 2.7 + up ), it is possible to display them as either a list of text links or a list of image links but not both at the same time. Several hours of research reading entries by angry WordPress users in the Support forum confident...