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Black Like Me? The Missing Faces in Technology and Innovation

Robin Caldwell | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology

Read More: Jon Gosier, Darla Mack, Wayne Sutton, Dan Frost, Gizmodo, Guy Kawasaki, BlackWeb20.Com, Michael Seibel, Twitter, Mario Armstrong, Angela Benton, Barack Obama, Brian Lam, Internet, Lynne D Johnson, Thought Leaders in Technology, William Kamkwamba, techcrunch50, Diversity in Technology, Jason Chen, Thought Leaders, Michael Lang, Clarence Wooten Jr., t3, tech100, Technology News
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.

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Net Neutrality Shifts Into High Gear

Art Brodsky | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Mark Lloyd, Julius Genachowski, Fcc, Net Neutrality, Media News
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.

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

wired.com | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Internet, Second Life Lawsuit, Legal Issues, Second Life Sex, Avatar, Second Life, Sex-Code Lawsuit, Weird Lawsuits, Second Life Sex Lawsuit, Sexgen Cuddle Rug, Sex Toys, Second Life Legal Issues, Media News

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...

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The Internet and the Ignorant

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Internet, Rush Limbaugh, Death Panels, Health Care, Blogging, Bloggers, Politics News
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.

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

Latimes.com | Posted 11.17.2009 | Technology

Read More: Internet, Web Fashion, Technology Designers, Internet-Fashion, Fashion, Technology, Technology Fashion, Fashion Week, New York Fashion Week, Where Is the Fashion Industry Going?, Technology News

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...

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Technology Revolution On College Campuses

washingtonpost.com | Zephyr Teachout | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology

Read More: Online Learning, Education Technology, Education, Technology, College, Undergraduate-Education, Internet, Technology News

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

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Michael Moore Says "Good Riddance" to Newspapers

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, Remnant Advertising, Advertising, Michael Moore, Internet, Tech Crunch, Capitalism: A Love Story, Republicans, Media, Business, Toronto International Film Festival, Journalism, Capitalism Movie, Media News
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.

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

Kimbal Musk | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: September 11, Internet, Restaurants, Boulder, Silicon Valley, Software Startups, The Kitchen, Denver, Colorado, Denver News
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.

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Technology Is Anthropology

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 11.14.2009 | Technology

Read More: Wikipedia, Iphone, Internet, Gadgets, Anthropology, New Media, Youtube, Technology, Facebook, HuffPost Technology, Huffposttech, Smart Phone, Jav on Tech, Technology News
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.

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America: At the Crossroads of Fate and Destiny

Caroline Myss | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Internet, Congress, Karl Rove, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Health Care Reform, Joe Wilson, Democrats, Republicans, Politics News
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?

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Messenger Pigeon Faster Faster Than SA Internet

Posted 11.10.2009 | Technology

Read More: Pigeon Internet, Internet, South Africa, Broadband, Messenger Pigeon, Pigeon DSL, Pigeon, Africa, Technology News

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...

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

Art Brodsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Broadband, Economic Stimulus Package, Fcc, AT&T, Media News
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.

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Jimmy Fallon's Valued Online Audience Returns Little Value

Danny Groner | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Internet, Jimmy Kimmel Live, I'm Fucking Matt Damon, Late Night Jokes, Adam Sternbergh, I'm Fucking Matt Damon Video, Matt Damon, Sarah Silverman Matt Damon, New York Magazine, Internet, Television, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Late Night Shows, Youtube, Jimmy Kimmel, Online Video, Jimmy Fallon, Sarah Silverman Matt Damon Video, Nbc, David Letterman, Entertainment News
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.

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New 'Internet Meter' To Measure Web TV Viewers

SARAH PEREZ of ReadWriteWeb | Posted 11.09.2009 | Technology

Read More: Internet, Internet TV, Web TV, Web Video, Nielsen, Nielsen Online, Technology News

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 ...

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

Josh Rosenblatt | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Newspapers, Internet Journalism, Web Sites, Journalism, Alt-Weeklies, Media News
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.

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

Diane Francis | Posted 11.08.2009 | New York

Read More: Facebook Applications, Mayor, New-York-City-Elections, New York City Primaries, Internet, New-York-Mayoral-Candidates, New York City Elections, New York Primary, Web, New York Mayoral Election, Mayoral Race, New Media, Digitaldemocracy, Media, Facebook, New York News
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.

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Green Is the New Black

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 11.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Street Fashion, Iran's Disputed Election, Social Networking, Internet, Today Show, Youtube, Iranian Revolution, Democracy, Fashion, Film, Facebook, World Wide Web, Iranian Election, World Cup, Style News
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.

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Internet Addiction Center Opens In U.S.

Guardian | Ed Pilkington | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet Addicts, Internet Use, Restart, Internet, Addiction & Recovery, Media News

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 ...

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YouTube Shifts Policy, Starts Paying One-Hit-Wonders

Stefan Sirucek | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Internet, Npr, Youtube, Online Video, Online Advertising, Money, Media News
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.

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Full Disclosure: Have Mommy Bloggers Gone Too Far?

Wendy Sachs | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Julie Myerson, Memoirs, Mommy Bloggers, Children, Privacy, Taboos, Internet, The Lost Child, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Living News
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?

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Important and Unimportant Imbalances in the World

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Wikipedia, Women, Internet, Purchase Decisions, Wall Street Journal, Gender, Mediapost, Media News
Jarvis Coffin

This is interesting: MediaPost referred to a report in the Digits Blog of the Wall Street Journal yesterday that says of 53,000 qualified respondents ...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Welcome, Big Brother: Ondi Timoner on We Live in Public

Dan Persons | Posted 10.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: 1984, Fema, The Dandy Warhols, Film, Josh Harris, Exclusive, George Orwell, Facebook Privacy, Facebook, Privacy, New York, Movies, Web 2.0, Cookies, Ondi Timoner, Internet, Quiet: We Live in Public, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Interview, Invasion of Privacy, Soho, Documentary, Voyeurism, Big Brother, We Live in Public, Pseudo, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

In the documentary We Live in Public, director Ondi Timoner focuses on an experiment in which 100 people were shut into a Soho, NY basement with all the comforts of home, plus 24/7 surveillance.

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Happy Birthday, Mr. Internet!

Rory O'Connor | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Worldwide Web, Jonathan Zittrain, Internet, Google, Apple, Arpanet, Leonard Kleinrock, Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, Media News
Rory O'Connor

The Internet's founders are increasingly concerned that burdensome barriers may squash future innovation before it happens.

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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
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

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.

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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
Art Brodsky

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.

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