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.
Insiders say that the FCC will soon announce its decision to uphold the $550,000 fine against CBS for Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction.
I usually don’t send out pure opinion pieces, but let it be said: There is not one person anywhere who can give you a good reason why it’s OK to show a man’s chest […]
As many of you are probably aware, the winter Olympics are going on right now in Torino Italy. Amidst the marketing and hype there are actual sporting events taking place. I try to watch when I get a chance as I enjoy bobsledding, ski jumping, and downhill skiing. At times it seemed like it was […]
As the pace of modernization accelerates around the globe, so too has computer usage and access to the internet. The latest Pew Global Attitudes poll found substantially more people using a computer and going online now than in 2002. And it is not just the young who are increasing their use of technology; in many […]
I am having a bit of a ramble around the demise of mass media, why it happened in the first place and how our digital world is impacting on what we consume and how.
So I came across an interesting book by Lizabeth Cohen - Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Dept. History Harvard […]
Independent citizens, including professionals, filmmakers, government workers, and even former U.S. military officials are among the brave, new, small investigative citizen reporters who have been spending their time to research on their own what really happened on the tragic September 11th, 2001.
What they all want is a public re-opening of the investigation into […]
We are drowning in a sea of information.
It’s a growing torrent that no single person can possibly drink.
In the book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman identifies a turning point in the history of mass communication, the invention of the telegraph. Prior to the telegraph, most of the information people took in was […]
Kent Bye is the author of a unique film documentary in progress that may become a future model for grassroots citizen journalism while showing how to invest filmmaking skills and ideas in a production that has some real informative values and developing the first Web-based collaborative video editing approach to build Open Source movies and […]
Up among the A-list top ten of international independent bloggers, there is a new name. A name that, if you are not from Italy, you may have never heard before: Beppe Grillo. Presently at position ten on the Technorati Top 100, Beppe Grillo’s blog is fast moving up the ranks and, at the speed it […]