Internet

Page: << 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ... 17 18 19 20 21 22 >>

Sharpening the Saw: The End of Summer and Back to Work

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Telephone, Television, Internet, Crisis, Vacation, Recharge, Friedrich Nietzsche, Recession, Cell Phone, Living News

I hope that as many people as possible have sharpened the saw this summer. Because, dear humans, we will need to be at our best in the days ahead.

Read Post

Florida Awards Stimulus Contract to High Bidder -- Connected Nation

Art Brodsky | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Broadband, Economic Stimulus Package, Media News

Usually a state contract bid with a high price and no experience might well lose to another firm's bid with a lower price and lots of experience. Unless, of course, that higher bidder is Connected Nation in Florida.

Read Post

As Internet turns 40, barriers threaten its growth

AP | ANICK JESDANUN | Posted 09.30.2009 | Technology

Read More: Internet, World Wide Web, Computers, Internet Turns 40, Technology News

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...

Read Whole Story

NYT: Time to Make Net Neutrality the Law

Timothy Karr | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media

Read More: SavetheInternet.Com, Fcc, Congress, Obama, Net Neutrality, Julius Genachowski, Astroturf, Internet, New York Times, Media News

Allowing Internet service providers to become gatekeepers would undermine the democratic nature of the Web, which has made it such a great engine for free speech and economic growth.

Read Post

Without Freedom of Expression

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Internet, Marc Kielburger, Thailand, Freedom of the Press, Craig Kielburger, Journalism, North Korea Journalists, Press Freedom, Thailand Repression of Freedom of Expression, World News

10 years. That's the length of the sentence that Thai man, Suwicha Thakor, received in April for posting two comments on a website deemed insulting to Thailand's monarchy.

Read Post

Con Games: Virtual Duality, Personal Media In Aspen

Michael Conniff | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media

Read More: New Media, Newspapers, Media, Advertising, Internet Advertising, Internet, Google, Death of Newspapers, Media News

A bigger problem is Craig's List, available in most places for free, the online classified-killer now slurping on the cash cow that once accounted for 45 percent of the newspaper revenue stream.

Read Post

United Airlines' Second Golden Marketing Opportunity: United Breaks Guitars, Song 2

Andrew Cherwenka | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media

Read More: United Breaks Guitars Song 2, Social Media, United Breaks Guitars, United Airlines, Marketing, Internet, Social Networking, Media News, United Airlines Guitar Song, Chicago, Media News

What if United put its best baggage handlers on drums and its best customer service reps on the tambourine? They could have in-house legal counsel singing backup.

Read Post

Meet My Mom

Meredith Lopez | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: 1960s, Baby Boomers, Working Mothers, Birthdays, Civil Rights, Computers, Equal Pay, Grandmothers, Era, Television, Internet, Gay Rights, 60th Birthday, Feminists, Cell Phones, Technology, Living News

My mom speaks out about turning 60.

Read Post

Illegal Downloaders In Britain Could Have Internet Connections Cut Off

AP | KAROLINA TAGARIS | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media

Read More: England, Music, Internet, Downloading, Music Downloads, Great Britain, Media News

LONDON — People who repeatedly download copyright-protected films and music could have their Internet connection cut off under proposed laws the...

Read Whole Story

Trolling

August J. Pollak | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Internet, Death Panels, Bloggers, Trolling, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Why the internet will always fall second to the quality of traditional media. To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," ...

Read Post

Keeping Kids Clean

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Food, Education, Parenting, Wikipedia, Kids, Children, Internet, Google, Early-Child-Education, Parenting Tips, Expletives, Parent-Child-Connections, Raising Children, Parenting Advice, Living News

My son has printed out 20 Wikipedia pages on the definition of the F word. I'm proud of my son's industrious initiative, research tactics and dogged determination to learn.

Read Post

The Real Reason Easy Access to Porn Is Ruining Our Kids

Josh Rosenblatt | Posted 09.19.2009 | Style

Read More: Internet, Porn, Pornography, Pornography Websites, Sexual Desires, Sex, Sexual Satisfaction, Style News

Porn is everywhere. Which sounds nice, I admit, but in actuality, kids these days don't realize how bad they have it.

Read Post

Information Addiction and Our Quest for Relevancy

Scott Lachut | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Internet, Relevancy, Information, Biological Imperative, Social Web, Brain, Biology, Online, Seeking, Addiction, Wanting, Mind, Information Overload, Information Age, Beating-Internet-Addiction, Internet Addiction, Facebook Addiction, Addiction & Recovery, Living News

This quest for what might be, creates a seemingly infinite feedback loop where consumption continuously renews the appetite.

Read Post

Newspapers, Not Books, Are the Key to Engaging Budding College Students

Danny Groner | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: College Students, Internet, Newspapers, College, Books, Novels, 9/11, Charles Dickens, Paradise Lost, Albert Camus, Herman Melville, The Plague, Edmund Spenser, Students, John Milton, Chaucer, Media News

The acts of reading the newspaper and participating in conversation about current affairs are worth more to young college students than interpreting foreign works, no matter their messages.

Read Post

Facebook Buys Rights To "Nearly Everything You Do Online" For $47.5 Million

washingtonpost.com | Chadwick Matlin | Posted 09.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Social Media, Internet, Twitter, Digg, Social Networking, Online, New Media, Friendfeed, Media, Facebook, Facebook Status, Business News

Facebook just bought the rights to nearly everything you do online. And it cost them only $47.5 million. Facebook's purchase of FriendFeed, an obsc...

Read Whole Story

Murdoch Pay-For-Content Strategy A Dud

Diane Francis | Posted 09.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Iranian Uprising, Newspapers, Iran, Death of Newspapers, Fox, Digital Television, Media, Wall Street Journal, Journalism, The Times of London, Blogs, Television, Internet, Online, New York Times, Citizen Journalism, New Media, Media News

Murdoch and others are the King Canutes of the business world, trying to hold back the tides.

Read Post

Porn Business Is Sagging

Lloyd Garver | Posted 09.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Porn on the Internet, Porn, Porn Bailout, Econony, Joe Francis, Internet, Savanna Samson, Larry Flynt, Media News

Ironically, the internet, that porn-filled swamp, is killing the professional porn industry.

Read Post

Hollywood, the Internet and the Poor: No Disconnect Necessary

Robert Townsend | Posted 09.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Television, Internet, Robert Townsend, Entertainment Industry, Hollywood, Entertainment News

Today, the entertainment industry is largely overlooking the most powerful distribution vehicle available: the Internet.

Read Post

The Reinvention of Legal Research: The Future Is Now

Peter Schwartz | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Information Age, Internet, Law, Publishing, Data, Bloomberg, Westlaw, Legal Research Online, Lexisnexis, Media News

Legal research, once the province of desks, books, and binders, is now online, data-driven, and real-time. This poses serious challenge to old publishing stalwarts like Westlaw and LexisNexis.

Read Post

Culture Clash

Kevin Naff | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Newspapers, Web Sites, Reuters, Online, Death of Print, Online Journalism, Baltimore Sun, Media News

Launching a major newspaper web site in 1996 offered hints of the trouble to come.

Read Post

English Speaking Hispanics Lead in Mobile Internet Growth...

Chris Brassington | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

"Latinos love their cell phones. The passionate nature of the culture fits perfectly with our first-rate sports programming and their desire to stay connected."

Read Post

NYCSeed: More than a Dollar and a Dream for Start Up Technology Companies

Alicia Whitaker | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Nycseed Owen Davis, Internet, Placevine, New York, Valign Software, Nyu Polytechnic Institute, path101, New York City, Internet Startup, Owen Davis, Nyc Investment Fund, Domdex, Internet Start Up, Nystar, Nycseed, New York News

NYCSeed is the city's first seed-funding venture that will help to nurture technology start-ups at a very early, pre-revenue stage of their development.

Read Post

Drowning in Information? You're Not Alone

Jonathan B. Spira | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Information Overload, Internet Age, Media News

Information overload renders us unable to absorb all of the information being thrust at us and some of what we miss may very well be useful or important.

Read Post

Murdoch to Charge for News Online 'If We Ever Publish Any'

Andy Borowitz | Posted 08.06.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Rupert Murdoch, Internet, Fox News, News Corp, Andy Borowitz, Comedy News

Murdoch stressed that readers would only be charged for "actual news" that appears on his sites, "which means that 99% of the content will remain free."

Read Post

In Defense Of Free

Piers Fawkes | Posted 09.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Future of Journalism, Internet, Future of Work, Social Networking, Crowdsourcing, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Free, Chris Anderson, Business, Business News