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.
Laurie J. Flynn of The New York Times writes:
A California appeals court ruled Friday that online reporters are protected by the same confidentiality laws that protect traditional journalists, striking a blow to efforts by Apple Computer to identify people who leaked confidential company data.
The three-judge panel in San Jose overturned a trial court’s ruling last [...]
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 [...]
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.
RufuSS is an online news aggregator. It grabs RSS and Atom feeds off the internet and renders them in an simple interface.
Wired News: Pharming Out-Scams Phishing
It’s hard to tell which end of the security spectrum is advancing faster, the good guys who provide protection from cyber-criminals or the criminals themselves.
The big prize in the Internet scamming world is personal information. Spam and phising have been around for a while, and vendors like Mozilla have even [...]
Wired News: Do You Speak Tech?
Those of us not afraid to call ourselves geeks have long been proud of our command of “geek-speak”. We knew the difference between ROM and RAM. We understood why a 32 bit application wouldn’t run on a 16 bit system.
But these days the acronyms are flying [...]
Google
Those people at Google never stop coming up with new ways to explore the World Wide Web. Now in beta, Google Suggest.
It’s sort of like the familiar Google search, with one weird little twist.
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. [...]
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.
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.
Over at ZDNet, Davis Berlind has posted an article that relates Dave Winer’s concerns over the trustworthiness of Google.
“Scripting News publisher and RSS shaker-and-mover Dave Winer diplomatically bit the hand that fed him with a recent blog entry that can be summed this way: Unless there are some changes in the way [...]
When the radio was first developed, it promised to become a great new tool for worldwide communication. These days radio is mostly used for entertainment.
Television was promoted as a revolutionary method to communicate news and information around the globe. Now it is routinely condemned for its mindless entertainment content. Now it would [...]
“Twisted rebar, concrete, and splintered furniture lay scattered across the floor of this room. Our view through a jagged hole in the wall looks out on the city, showing steady civilian traffic crossing a bridge over a river below. Sparrows flap through the gray haze, and Arabic music and the voices of merchants filter up [...]
We all know them. Heck, some of us are them. Those older geeks caught between old-school and high-tech. While surfing the Internet, we see an interesting Web page and immediately grab our notepad and pencil and write down the URL. We take notes on a legal pad during teleconferences. We [...]
The Miami Herald reports “In a caper eerily similar to the the theft of $200,000 worth of AT&T Broadband equipment in 2000, high-tech thieves raided 26 outdoor amplifier sites in Cooper City, causing as many as 14,000 Comcast customers to lose cable service for up to two hours.”
If you’ve never read A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, you may want to.
If your budget resembles mine, you may want to quit reading this right now. On the other hand, if like me, you enjoy pouring over catalogs like IKEA’s dreaming about where in your house to put all your new imaginary furniture, this article from C|Net News may give you something to else dream about.
USAToday is reporting that for the most part nearly everyone associated with the Olympics has been barred from blogging about it.
A fascinating NewsWeek article on the government’s efforts to gain control over this dangerous new frontier called the World Wide Web.
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