Verizon Wireless censors 4chan: TechVi Now Morning Edition
Users of Verizon Wireless cannot reach 4chan, the iPhone's latest OS is now jailbreak-friendly, Google explains why they ran a Super Bowl ad, and more on TechVi Now.
Be an internet troll for class credit
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A course at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is now requiring its students become trolls on "hostile" websites. According to the syllabus for the class, students must defend Intelligent Design on websites or face losing 20% of their grade. Next semester we're hoping for a class on flame wars in 4chan.
AT&T blocking controversial site after DDoS attack: Reports
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TechDirt, and others, report AT&T is blocking access to 4Chan, a controversial internet site known as being a place for internet pranksters to cavort (more on its Wikipedia page). Apparently, the move started after 4Chan launched some sort of DDoS attack against AT&T, a claim that can't be verified. If true, AT&T's stance would likely violate net neutrality mandates and could serve as additional provocation for the 4Chan tricksters to perform more pranks on the company.
Update 8:44 AM EST: Apparently, the site is back, but suffering its own DDoS attack from attention. Expect this story to continue over the next several days.
Update 10:31 AM EST: One of our commenters points to this post, where a network engineer points out they were trying to save 4chan from the mess. If the posts are to be believed, looks like AT&T was actually the good guy in this case.
[Originally posted July 27th at 7:14AM]
LOL-ing all the way to the bank
Whether you love them or hate 'em, LOLCats are a strong fixture in internet culture. Ben Huh, the CEO behind the company that owns LOLCat monolith I Can Haz Cheezburger, sat down for a few minutes with TechVi to talk about how he got his company where it is today, how he decides which memes are right, and how he feels about the place where many of these memes originate, 4chan.
Huh originally started Pet Holdings, Inc. by purchasing I Can Haz Cheezburger from its original owners for a seemingly shocking $2,000,000 (that's million, folks). He then moved on to FailBlog, one of the more popular recent meme sites. Huh doesn't view his catalog of properties as "meme sites," but rather just like any other form of media consumption, tied with pageviews and dollars. The model makes sense, and lucky for Huh, memes are likely to be around as long as the net exists. The question in my mind is whether he can continue to ride the wave successfully past his first few sites, but so far he seems to be LOL-ing, all the way to the bank.
4chan tricksters hack Time’s 100 influencers poll
Not content with simply giving 4chan founder "Moot" as the top slot of Time's 100 most influential people online poll, the 4chan hackers have aligned the names so the first letters of the poll read "Marble cake, the game also," and while I don't know what marble cake is, those 4chan kids will do whatever they want, to anyone on the net.