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.
It’s no secret that the browser wars are on again in earnest. Look in any forum like Lockergnome’s and I’ll bet you’ll find a thread on the evils of Internet Explorer and how Firefox is a gift from Heaven.
Fanatical followers of a particular piece of software aren’t new. Nearly every anti-virus application has […]
As we all know, www equals World Wide Web. So it’s not surprising that conflicts come up where the laws of one nation conflict with the laws of another for Internet users. This article at Ars Technica illustrates just such a legal case.
The blog to book phenom, Julia and Julie, which I blogged about last August at Writer’s Edge has won top prize in the lulu.com-sponsored Blooker Prize. The Book Standard’s intriguing Blogs and Bestsellers: One and the Same? suggested: If anyone is sure to have a real blog-to-print success story, it may be […]
If you haven’t been paying attention to the news lately you might be missing the growing controversy over network (or Net) neutrality. You can read more about it here and here. So what is Net neutrality, you might ask? Well this Wikipedia article gives a good explanation of the term.