We know to avoid snakes, spiders and sharks but they're not the only members of the animal kingdom that can spoil your day. Here are five animals that look cute (or odd) but should still be given a respectful berth.

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Misinformation and a lack of technical understanding have been at the centre of the porn blocking story. The idea, in summary, is for UK ISPs to block porn and for people to have to opt out of web filtering. Mainstream media reporting of the issue has hardly been helpful, especially from the Daily Mail. So why not botch the numbers?

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For many people, Google and Facebook are 'the internet'. So it only makes sense for one to take a pot-shot at the other.

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Another day sees another press release with an idea to try and stem the amount of time people spend on Facebook during the working day. This idea is rather clever. Smoothwall, a company based in Yorkshire that specialises in web filtering and security, has come up with a way of making Facebook read only. People can still catch up with the latest news but without the option of responding or posting themselves.

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I'm still amazed by just how many people are using Internet Explorer 6. That's easy. What's hard is trying to understand why. There are no tabs and it has some unique and frustrating interpretations of how web pages should be displayed. So I wasn't really surprised to find another press release in my inbox this morning about a company removing support for Internet Explorer 6.

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What's the best way to measure the scale of the internet?

Youtube, one of the most popular sites on the web, has announced that it now sees one hour of video uploaded to its servers every second. Every day, these videos receive five billion views.

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