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.
As an American I have the right to free speech guaranteed by the first amendment of the Constitution. Most countries around the world have similar guarantees for their citizens. But as this world increasingly becomes more interconnected via the internet what we do well within our rights in our own countries is not always sitting […]
The Pew Internet & American Life Project issued a press release today describing how the internet improves Americans’ capacity to maintain their social networks and how they gain a big payoff when they use the internet to activate those networks to solicit help. The report is based on two surveys and finds that the internet […]
I am certainly not an economics expert, but as you have been reading from the news I select, I am very attracted to giving exposure to news and stories that not only get no coverage whatsoever on mainstream media, but which get little or no coverage at all even by independent bloggers and news sites. […]
“When citizens are convinced that interest - which ought to be correctly called usury - on money is necessary, they accept without question the current state of violence, war, poverty, scarcity and lack that continues to dominate the world in a negative fashion as we progress into this 21st Century.”
If you pay any attention to the news you’ve certainly noticed that the issue of privacy and our rights have been a hot topic lately. Are the U.S. Government and the Department of Defense spying on U.S. citizens? Some civil liberties groups believe so and are suing to find out.
What’s wrong with youth today? No matter where you stand on the issue of Iraq - and I’m not saying where I stand on it, as it’s not germane to the issue at hand - you have to admit that there are a lot of people who are strongly opposed to our involvement with […]
PBS, in a news release published today, unveils a new blog called MediaShift, which will explore how new forms of digital media are dramatically changing American society and culture.
MediaShift debuts Jan. 18 at http://www.pbs.org/mediashift.
Microsoft is being roundly criticized for censoring the MSN Spaces blog of a Chinese journalist in response to demands from Chinese censors, although not as severely as Yahoo! was criticized last year for helping the Chinese police uncover the identity of an online critic of the government.
Meanwhile, Reporters Without Borders has put forward its suggestion […]