Does the Internet have any effect on the way we live? Is the Web influencing society, religion, politics, even the way we interact? Are we in danger of losing our humanity or will technology end up enhancing it? We\’ll bring you stories and sites that illustrate, illuminate and make you think about the profound, sometimes sublime, ways that the Internet touches our lives.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former White House drug czar Barry McCaffrey is urging Major League Baseball to adopt Olympic standards for drug testing and punishment. ‘You cannot have the chickens guarding the coop. Baseball always has and still does,’ McCaffrey said Monday. ‘Baseball and all professional sports need to adopt the same anti-drug principles we pressed […]
The continuing saga of Yahoo! and its legal problems regarding the sale of Nazi paraphernalia on Yahoo! in France continues on. I have followed this case since its inception and I can understand where Yahoo! is going with this. The nature of the Internet does render borders obsolete in many cases.
How can France, or any […]
Jeremy Hinzman lost his application for refugee status in Canada back on the 16th. A copy of the Hinzman Decisions (TA4-01429, TA4-01430, TA4-01431), before the Government of Canada, Immigration and Refugee Board is here. Please note that this does not mean that he will be deported from Canada to face charges, only that he may […]
About a month ago I mentioned coupon settlements. Now we have an example of one. If you go to www.audiocardsettlement.com you will find a coupon settlement form. This form is where people who have purchased an Audigy ES, Audigy Platinum, Audigy Platinum eX, Audigy Gamer, Audigy MP3+, or Extigy model sound card […]
BuildingBlogz.com(TM) Launched for Residential Properties
The Cluetrain Manifesto was clearly aimed at businesses, encouraging them to employ the power of the Internet to increase communication between employees and the company and their clients.
But NetImpax, LLC, the Georgetown-based Interactive communications and design agency, is showing that the same concept can be applied to other venues in society. […]
A look through the Florida Health Care Advanced Directives Statute (Ch. 765, Florida Statutes) provided me with some important insight into the Terri Schiavo case: An advance directive to physicians or living will might not have helped Terri Schiavo at all.
The Federal Election Commission is considering regulating and restricting online entities and activities which run to the political, including political blogs and other political content providers and sources. Let’s face it, anyone with a keyboard, a monitor, and a brain, is aware that online content providers, particularly bloggers, played a not insignificant role in […]
This week at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Yahoo! Search’s director, Gary Flake, delighted the geek crowd with the announcement of a new Tech Buzz Game. It’s a fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends. The competition is co-sponsored by O’Reilly Media and powered by News Futures. Prizes include Apple […]
Yesterday at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Matt Webb, one of the authors of Mind Hacks, which I wrote about in my writing/writers’ blog Writer’s Edge last month, told me that whenever his book is mentioned on the blog Boing Boing, there’s a measurable spike in sales at Amazon. That’s “buzz” in action, electronic […]
U.S. Supreme Court Touches Dallas: To Decide Future of Technology Innovation
The Second Annual DallasBlue Future of Digital Music Forum, to be held Thursday March 24th in Richardson, will address the Supreme Court’s hearing on peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software. The Forum features nationally-known speakers, food, and entertainment. The speakers span the range of […]
From the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, surrounded by young geeks and their shiny toys. I notice few are taking notes on the session we’re attending. They are quietly: checking email, playing games, building web pages, consulting reference material, text messaging, taking pictures with cell phones–everything but paying attention to the speaker. […]
Just how secure is your personal information? First it was 1.2 million Federal employees affected by lost tapes containing credit card information by Bank of America. Then it was personal data stolen from LexisNexis and ChoicePoint Inc. Now it seems that personal data from 8,900 people was stolen from the Nevada DMV.
If you wander about the Internet long enough, connections appear, sometimes answers to questions. Last fall I wondered about what Google is going to do with all the databases and information it collects on all the users of its various businesses. Also noted was addition of a sort of ‘zine to Google’s social […]
The New York Daily Times broke this story back in January, but very little has been heard about it since, either on the televised news or on the Web.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released a report and a commentary about the internet’s role in the 2004 election. The report is based on a post-election survey and documents how and why the internet became an essential part of American politics in 2004. Fully 75 million Americans - 37% of the […]
While many institutes of higher learning reward creative thinking and initiative, Harvard Business School said on Tuesday it is rejecting applications from 119 would-be students who it says hacked into a Web site to learn if they were accepted at the Ivy League university ahead of the official notification.
About his current, and possibly last, play, The Gods Are Pounding My Head, a.k.a. Lumberjack Messiah, Richard Foreman says, “…I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self-evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the “instantly available.” A new self that […]