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Search as Dialog

Jan Pedersen | Posted 11.22.2009 | Technology


Jan Pedersen

We see Bing as the first step in this long process of transforming search from something which often points you somewhere else to try and find your answer.

It's Day One For the Open Internet -- The Games Have Begun

Art Brodsky | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology


Art Brodsky

Net Neutrality is a complicated-sounding term for something very simple. Companies that carry your Internet traffic shouldn't be allowed to play favorites.

Net Neutrality Won't Fix The App Store

Dan Frommer | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology


Dan Frommer

Keeping an open Internet is important to consumers and businesses, and monopoly (or duopoly) Internet providers must never be given the role of taste-maker.

Do We Need More Internet Regulation? FCC to Decide

Joe Waz | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology


Joe Waz

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Black Like Me? The Missing Faces in Technology and Innovation

Robin Caldwell | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology


Robin Caldwell

The real question is where is the diversity of thought leadership in technology? Technology is viewed as an incubator for innovation, but if the same people are always included in that incubator then they are recreating more of the same and reproducing themselves.

The Open Internet: Preserving the Freedom to Innovate

Julius Genachowski | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology


Julius Genachowski

The key to the Internet's success has been its openness...Notwithstanding its unparalleled record of success, today the free and open Internet faces emerging and substantial challenges.

Net Neutrality Shifts Into High Gear

Art Brodsky | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media


Art Brodsky

Net Neutrality will be the largest telecom fight in since the giveaway Telecom Act was fought out in 1995. In the House, Republicans are already showing they're ready to rumble.

Second Life Sex Lawsuit: Linden Lab Targeted For Allowing Ripped-Off Sex Toys

wired.com | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media


Raising the stakes on a two-year-old intellectual property controversy in Second Life, a popular seller of online adult novelties filed a federal copy...

The Internet and the Ignorant

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics


Christopher Brauchli

If readers are intent on being deceived by one kind of magician or another I'd suggest they put their faith in the imaginary lottery folks or the cash-strapped Nigerians. They harm only the gullible.

Fashion's Internet Woes: Industry Going Out Of Style?

Latimes.com | Posted 11.17.2009 | Technology


The $300-billion fashion business is in the midst of an epic shake-up that is changing the way clothes are designed, marketed and purchased. The Inter...

Technology Revolution On College Campuses

washingtonpost.com | Zephyr Teachout | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology


Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enab...

Michael Moore Says "Good Riddance" to Newspapers

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media


Jarvis Coffin

Minus the "Good riddance," I'd have to agree, at least with the proposition that newspapers lost track of their core customer. But don't stop with newspapers. It's true about most media.

Boulder: You're Not in Kansas Anymore ...

Kimbal Musk | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver


Kimbal Musk

Boulder was not the small town I had expected. It is a vivacious community of sophisticated people, who have the same aspirations and expectations you find in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Technology Is Anthropology

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 11.14.2009 | Technology


Jose Antonio Vargas

HuffPostTech -- a new HuffPost section that launches next Monday -- will cover how technology in general, and the Internet in particular, is changing the way we live our lives.

America: At the Crossroads of Fate and Destiny

Caroline Myss | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics


Caroline Myss

Shall we shift our direction from the fearful and divisive path we have been walking on for almost a decade or shall we come together again as one nation and envision a new future?

Messenger Pigeon Faster Faster Than SA Internet

Posted 11.10.2009 | Technology


A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom. Wi...

Connecting the Dots -- How Big Telecom Will Try to Squash Our Fast-Internet Future

Art Brodsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media


Art Brodsky

A national broadband plan, required under the Federal stimulus program, should be a topic of discussion when the House Telecom Subcommittee begins holding their oversight hearings today.

Jimmy Fallon's Valued Online Audience Returns Little Value

Danny Groner | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment


Danny Groner

In the past few months since Fallon debuted, he's led regular and occasional features targeting, among others, an online audience that doesn't stay up for Fallon.

New 'Internet Meter' To Measure Web TV Viewers

SARAH PEREZ of ReadWriteWeb | Posted 11.09.2009 | Technology


More and more viewers are leaving their TV sets to watch their favorite shows online. Nielsen has announced an "Internet Meter" to measure the online ...

Hoping to Compensate for Their Waning Influence, Alt-Weeklies Sacrifice Quality for Sensory Overload

Josh Rosenblatt | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media


Josh Rosenblatt

For the younger generation, who formed relationships to media in a time when immediacy and convenience were everything, the alt-weekly model isn't just dying -- it never existed in the first place.

New York's Digitized Dems Can Take Over City Council Sept. 15

Diane Francis | Posted 11.08.2009 | New York


Diane Francis

Obama supporters -- about one million registered Democrats -- can vote in next Tuesday's local primary election, and only a tiny fraction of this number could swing the results.

Green Is the New Black

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 11.08.2009 | Style


Charlotte Safavi

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.

Internet Addiction Center Opens In U.S.

Guardian | Ed Pilkington | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media


If you have to take a quick break from reading this article to check your Blackberry, send a text or reboot your Xbox 360 before you reach the end of ...

YouTube Shifts Policy, Starts Paying One-Hit-Wonders

Stefan Sirucek | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media


Stefan Sirucek

With YouTube's new policy of paying those with hit videos, that clip of a kid's wacky 5th birthday may help pay for his college tuition. Or his dental work.

Full Disclosure: Have Mommy Bloggers Gone Too Far?

Wendy Sachs | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living


Wendy Sachs

Am I breaching the natural maternal pact with my young children when I use them as the backdrop in writing about my own experience in motherhood?