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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
As I’ve stated here before, I love music. I could live without TV, but without music? Never! But the music industry itself is in a sad state of affairs right now. The RIAA just a few days ago issued another 754 subpoenas against file sharers. Sony has found itself in hot water with the public [...]
One of the first things I usually do in the morning is to sit down and read the newspaper. The dog likes to curl up in my lap as I catch up on the comics and the news. It’s a nice way to start off the day but for the most part though I tend [...]
According to emerging research data coming from independent news sources, the possibility that AIDS is the unintended result of biological warfare seems to be more than just a possibility.
The vast majority of alternative AIDS researchers such as Duesberg - those who understand that HIV cannot be the cause of AIDS - believe that AIDS [...]
In a locked-down television landscape, here is an outpost of innovation and access for alternative media voices and delivery formats: Internet television, made and delivered in a format that effectively competes with traditional mainstream television channels while offering news and views you dont normally get to see.
This past week marked the official public launch of [...]
Born with the intention of providing an alternative news venue for the younger generations, often very critical and alienated by mainstream news media, here is a uniquely interesting hub of counter-information, articles, and voices from a growing group of awareness-increasing individuals.
One of the most valuable resources behind it is the collection of videos that Stephen [...]
Updating the Google Library entry of last week, the Google Watch.org has obtained a copy of Google’s agreement with the University of Michigan and posted it on the Internet. Start reading the saga here, and for the actual agreement, follow links here. The mystery is, of course, if the entire agreement is so confidential, why [...]
Unlike some reporters in the media apparently, I actually took the time to watch the British produced docudrama “Oil Storm”, shown Sunday evening on the FX network. While I agree with some people that it is slightly exaggerated in context, at least I waited to actually see the damn thing before passing judgment on the [...]
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 [...]
Some of my many joys of the Internet are making friends around the world and learning about different cultures. A particular focus of my activities in this area is to learn from Muslim friends in the Middle East. I met these people on Google’s Orkut social networking service, and some of them read [...]
RSS feeds, first the domain of news sites and blogs, are popping up everywhere in the Age of the World as Publisher. Digital warfare is rapidly shifting from search engines to feed suppliers, with an explosion of features fortelling the coming collapse and consolidation. Enjoy it while it lasts. Here’s a roundup [...]
“The show that leads into me is puppets making prank phone calls.” -Jon Stewart on “Partisan Hackery” at CNN. Watch the video here. Then watch him talk about it on his own show.
From Chris Shumway of Mediaocracy:
In response to recent censorship by Sinclair Broadcasting and the company’s decision to air an explicitly anti-Kerry program without presenting alternative viewpoints, the media reform organization Free Press has launched a “Sinclair Watch” Web site.
The site has a link to the group’s recent report about Sinclair’s long history of journalistic abuses. [...]
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