Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 01.25.2012
Inevitably, I will lose touch with some aspects of modern culture. Headlines that only use first names are often a mystery. I still know that 'Jessica' probably refers to Ms. Simpson but 'Kris' is off my radar. So it goes.
Slate | Posted 10.06.2011
On Aug. 6, 1991, a scientist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) named Tim Berners-Lee unveiled a project for organizing informat...
Business Insider's Silicon Alley Insider | Posted 08.27.2011
The average person spends three hours per day surfing the mobile web and spend 6 hours per day online at work. The Internet consumes our lives, but...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.16.2011
The Internet has matured to the point where our online and our offline lives have merged. We're leaving behind worshiping at the altar of algorithms and entering a brave new world of community, connections and engagement.
Geri Spieler | Posted 06.01.2011
Conducting Internet research is a challenge. It's time consuming, often confusing and who ever thought too much information could be a problem? The I...
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.28.2011
Lebanese Internet users are mad as hell and won't take it anymore, so they've launched a campaign to gripe about the country's disgracefully sluggish access to the World Wide Web.
Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011
These are deciding times. It is imperative for those of us who see the big picture to decide, to commit, to make a concerted effort to reach out in ever-expanding circles of affinity and embrace.
Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011
Hey, there are a lot of good groups advancing the cause of the open net, and also extending that to people who need a break. One particularly effecti...
Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011
Every person, every mammal, comes into this world powerfully, primally, connected to the mother who bore them, the source and the resource of their life.
Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011
At precisely 12:34 a.m. on Friday morning, the Egyptian government apparently shut down Internet access not just from but into Egypt. That is, Egypt didn't lose Internet access: the Internet lost Egypt.
Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011
Devastated by Predator attacks, al-Qaeda is transforming from a terrorist group that uses propaganda into a propaganda group that outsources terrorism.
Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011
Living in Manhattan is a very public act of contact with humanity. Yet this notion, to document some aspect of my life for a day -- rather than talking to others about theirs -- stirs anxiety in me.
Krisztina Holly | Posted 05.25.2011
In the rush to protect our ideas we often overlook the fact that the value of some ideas are most fully realized when they are shared, not kept secret.
Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011
While some of the best documentaries draw our attention to little-known corners of the world, producer Rachel Dretzin has been blowing up our preconceptions by training her lenses on the what's around us right now.
BBC | Posted 05.25.2011
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary"....
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.
Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been on a quest for several years for the adoption of something he has coined the semantic Web -- a data-rich, interconnected Web.
Don Tapscott | Posted 05.25.2011
Of all the technology marvels of 1969, the Internet has been a late bloomer. Email was introduced in 1971, but the first web browser didn't come along until 1990.
Charlotte Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011
Ultimately, those who embraced green in clothing or fashion accessories were rejecting the status quo. Fashion sometimes has a way of getting under the skin.
Posted 05.25.2011
The Internet celebrated its 40th birthday this week, and Jimmy Kimmel got all all sentimental as a result. He decided to celebrate with a salute to al...
AP | ANICK JESDANUN | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Goofy videos weren't on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the I...
Tim O'Reilly | Posted 05.25.2011
Can government become a platform of, for and by the people?
Rahul Sonnad | Posted 05.25.2011
Just as the late 90's created a rush for business to move onto the World Wide Web, in the next three years, every major location-based business will move to the Global Mobile Web.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 05.25.2011
Swine flu, though, conjures dark images of your mortality. The communications industry, like CNN, saturates air time on such issues because they know people will watch.
Chris Birk | Posted 05.10.2012