The Daily IIJ

“Real men don’t buy girls,” proudly proclaims the tagline of the anti-sex trafficking campaigned run by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. Launched early this year, it was an attempt by the prolific Hollywood couple to turn the attention of the American public to the all-too-real problems of sex trafficking and child prostitution. Although the star-studded [...]

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It’s easy to underestimate the cultural and political significance of Facebook and Twitter if you mostly share updates of what you had for breakfast, or post photos of a booze-fueled night out with friends. But for the long-oppressed citizens of Tunisia, Iran and Egypt, among others, social networking sites helped provide the sparks needed to [...]

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The Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum held in Bonn last week felt like a mini-homecoming of sorts. I was there to cover the event for the European Youth Press’ Orange Magazine, but because of the familiar faces I spotted in the crowd, it might as well have been an IIJ event. There were a lot [...]

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Jason Ivler, who who allegedly gunned down Renato Ebarle Jr., in a display of road rage last November 18, was recently apprehended by the NBI following a shootout at his mother’s house on January 18. Footage of the early morning raid quickly made it to news channels and websites, as transfixed viewers watched the exchange of [...]

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“I’M NOT so sure, but I think I just saw a turtle swim past me.” This was the first thing I told a friend when I called him up. “Where are you?” he asked. “Get back inside your house!” “I am inside my house,” I replied. “I’m knee-deep in water, and it’s looking worse every [...]

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What’s in a “meme?” A “meme” by any other name would still be what it is—a sometimes funny, other times annoying Internet-generated content (from uploaded digital files or hyperlinks) such as images, videos and surveys.

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