นี่ไม่ใช่การรณรงค์ลดโลกร้อน แต่เป็นการทดลองว่าเราจะใช้ชีวิต 24 ชั่วโมง โดยไม่มีคอมพิวเตอร์ได้หรือไม่ โครงการนี้จะจัดขึ้นในวันเสาร์ที่ 3 พฤษภาคม 2551

เมื่อปีที่แล้ว โครงการ Shutdown Day มีจำนวนคนเข้าดูเว็บไซท์โครงการ 1.6 ล้านคน ตลอดระยะเวลา 1 เดือนที่ดำเนินโครงการ มีคนร่วมโครงการด้วยการปิดคอมพิวเตอร์เป็นเวลา 24 ชั่วโมง จำนวนกว่า 65,000 คนจากทั่วโลก

เราจะมีส่วนร่วมได้อย่างไรบ้าง ?

• แสดงการสนับสนุน ด้วยการลงทะเบียนในเว็บไซท์โครงการ
• ถ่ายวีดิโอ หรือถ่ายรูปเกี่ยวกับโครงการนี้
• เผยแพร่ข่าวสารของโครงการ ด้วยการเขียนบล็อก บอกต่อ เขียนลง Facebook, Digg, Del.icio.us

This is not about “Global Warming”, but we want to know if we can live 24hours without computer. The Shutdown Day 2008 will be held on May 3, 2008.

Shut Down Day started off in 2007 by Denis Bystrov, a computer programmer living in Montreal, Canada, realized that he spends too much time with his computer and wants one day to spend entirely with his family.

Denis then teamed up with his friends Michael Taylor, a former trade floor occupant in stock markets in London, England and David Bridle, a part time film maker from Cardiff, Wales, to throw up a challenge on the Internet, through the website, called shutdownday.org The idea was simple:

“Do you think you can stay away from your computers for at least 24 hours a day, and if yes, can you pledge to do so?”

Join: Shutdown Day 2008

Digg: Shutdown Day 2008 on Digg

There’s a big incident for the online society in Thailand recently. Everything starts when a Zickr user post a link to xxx.kapook.com; one of the big portal website in Thailand. He asks why this subdomain contains the adults and sex keywords like (porno, sex vdo clips, raping, hidden cams, sex stories, etc.) and also some sex contents.

screencap from www.pittaya.com shows tons of sex related keywords.

After this post, there are more than six bloggers talk about it in their blogs and it spreads to a press (manager.co.th), who interviewed Mr. Porameth Minsiri; the website owner, the Chairman of Thai Webmaster Association, and moreover, he is the manager of Thai Clean Net Project which intends to increase ‘white’ Thai contents on the internet. Mr. Porameth said that Kapook.com has several domain names and xxx.kapook.com is one of it domains, but never promoted. He also said that the name ‘xxx’ is intended to collect all mystery news and his staffs ‘register’ this name without his acknowledgment. After he knew that the domain was ‘registered’, there is nothing he can do.

“This is not spamdexing (index spamming), or keywords spamming but those interns thought it will be hilarious for users who are trying to find the something sexy, but end up with those homophones or homographs.” Mr. Porameth said.

After the news spread, Kapook.com took down that subdomain for a while, and put it back online again with more ‘clean’ contents. Anyway, the 1 pixel link from it homepage, and some links from other pages are still working.

This is not the first time for Kapook.com’s blackhat strategy, in October 2007, a blogger found 0×0 (zero sized) iframe which contains some random ads limited to 1,000,000 impressions. That means, even if the counter is counted to 1,000,000 impressions, the actual impressions from users will never reach that amount. here’s links to blogs that follow this issue (all in Thai - but with screencaps)

1. Random Digital Garbage
2. SEM, SEO Knowledge in Thailand
3. bact’ is a name
4. Library and Technology in Thailand
5. LAB.TOSDN
6. iPalm’s blog