Today, AT&T decided to censor part of the Internet. AT&T unceremoniously and without notification blocked 4chan.org. That's right: AT&T has begun deciding which sites are okay for you and I to view.
A bit of background: 4chan.org is an extremely influential segment of the web population. You've heard...
0 Comments | Posted March 11, 2009 | 4:13 AM
"The change, it had to come ..."
So we were told. So we held up the iconic blue-and-red signs that read, "Hope."
But nowadays, it's looking more like, "Meet the new Boss. Same as the old Boss."
Barack Obama promised us a more Web 2.0-type government. We were promised transparency....
0 Comments | Posted September 2, 2008 | 3:47 PM
Watching the whole Sarah Palin saga unfold, I can't help but think of Laura Roslin from Battlestar Galactica.
On the show, humanity is all but wiped out by the Cylons. The President is killed. In fact, most of the government is killed. The constitutional line of presidential succession ends up...
0 Comments | Posted May 18, 2008 | 4:21 PM
These days, the best way to sell something may be to just give it away.
That's what author Scott Sigler did with his new novel Infected. Originally a podiobook (podcast audiobook) given away for free, Infected is the sort of novel no publisher in world would think...
0 Comments | Posted April 7, 2008 | 3:07 PM
We live in an exciting time for artists. A time when the clutching, gnarled fingers of The Proverbial Middleman are being peeled off.
Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead sell music directly over the internet, with no record label whatsoever. Authors are now publishing their own...
0 Comments | Posted June 12, 2007 | 10:23 PM
0 Comments | Posted May 17, 2007 | 1:44 PM
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is far and away the most popular on the Internet. Yet, despite his massive online lead, the mainstream media has barely managed to cover him at all.
On 5/14 and 5/15, Ron Paul was the #1 most-searched-for term on blog search engine Technorati. On post-debate...
0 Comments | Posted November 28, 2006 | 6:06 PM
As regular readers of HuffPo no doubt have seen today, former Speaker and presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich recently made the interesting assertion that we 'need to re-examine freedom of speech' in this post 9/11 world.
Well, listen up, Newt: Freedom of speech is non-negotiable. It is a core American value....
0 Comments | Posted October 29, 2006 | 10:35 PM
Right now, you're snug in your chair, reading the Huffington Post. Hope you're enjoying it -- because (much like global warming) if things keep going the way they are, that simple pleasure could all take a nasty turn south in a very short period of time.
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0 Comments | Posted July 27, 2009 | 12:22 PM