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Many parents want their child to have a different experience in school where they can be assured that the "whole child" is educated. In Silicon Valley, this is worth $20,000 to $25,000 in education costs.
If social media is really a game changer, I'd hoped the new game might be more exciting. In reality, I know it is. So who is playing, and where are they?
We must consolidate a singular identity. With 845 million users worldwide, Facebook has decided on behalf of the cyber universe that everything MUST be social. And the tyranny of a compulsorily social world is that it negates the possibility of the underground and the alternative.
There were people at Russia's Safer Internet Day conference proposing blocking access to certain types of illegal content. If this sounds familiar, think back just a couple of weeks to our debate around a pair of U.S. bills that would have done just that for sites with alleged pirated content.
At CES this year, with WPP's chief Sir Martin Sorrell flying in from London and Publicis' chairman Maurice Levy in from Paris, along with hundreds of...
The next five to ten years represent an unprecedented break in the human journey. We are between stories, or the guiding narratives, that serve as bea...
Some time ago, Scott McNealy, then head of Sun Microsystems, in response to a question said quite emphatically, "Privacy is dead. Get over it." Nobody...
Next Friday, February 10, the Stanford Technology Law Review is holding its annual symposium, and this year's topic is an important one: First Amendm...
The best way to protect and even promote democracy is to protect the freedom of the Internet. While SOPA has created a stir publicly, we must be vigilant about even some of the "conveniences" we are presented with, lest we all break the law of unintended consequences.
Getting citizens involved will make Congress pay attention, but not every issue is a SOPA, where the internet shuts down in protest. Most issues fly below the radar. Only an empowered, capable Congress can make decisions.
Social networking is about having an audience and being an audience. You make friends for entertainment purposes. It feels good. And then it becomes a lifestyle, an addiction.
Behind the SOPA legislative scene a very different and highly competitive industrial-scale battle is being fought by publishers of the web's content, Internet service providers (the final distributors of content) and copyright owners, including Hollywood.
Ziad Tassabehji has always been an entrepreneur at heart. Born in Lebanon and now living in the UK, Ziad started his first Internet company before there was even Internet in Dubai in 1995.
For libertarians, there is new hope in the power of a self-organizing and self-regulating Internet to stand up for itself against invasive governments and powerful legacy industries that seek to manage our options as consumers.
How Social Media Is Fighting Back Against Occupation The Internet, since its origins, has been a place of imagination, innovation, creation and shar...
Recently the City Council voted to approve Mayor Emanuel's new protest ordinance. These restrictions are not only excessive, but they will also serve to prevent citizens from protesting and exercising their civil liberties.
