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Daniel Allen was born and raised in Manhattan, before eventually graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, where he studied computer science and networking technology. In his short post-graduation career, he has gone from working at a dot-com startup to fixing computers for and teaching programming to high school students.

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A Troll's Apologia

Posted June 8, 2007 | 17:12:00 (EST)

Internet trolls are not very popular, save amongst themselves. So universally disliked are they, that even usually tolerant folks like Cory Doctorow want to offer us tips on how to rid ourselves of them.

Doctorow, like many who had the pleasure of watching the internet "grow up,"...

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Unraveling China's Great Firewall

Posted June 7, 2007 | 13:25:00 (EST)

Jeremy Goldkorn writes that a Chinese blogger who goes by the name Yetaai is suing China Telecom, his internet service provider, because his site, which he hosts in the United States, is blocked in China. The case was to be heard on May 29 in Shanghai --...

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Looking Back on the Digg Revolt

Posted May 28, 2007 | 21:42:53 (EST)

The internet writes its history at a frenetic pace.

Earlier this month, Digg.com, a popular social bookmarking site, experienced something akin to an online riot. Like a real-life riot, it began with a trickle, not a bang.

At its heart, Digg is a very simple system. Any...

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