The Internet

The Top 9 Tech CEOs On The Web: PeekYou

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 05.17.2012

Some of the tech world's most well-liked CEOs also have commanding web presences. PeekYou, a search company that ranks individuals' influence and a...

Is the Media's ADD Hurting Our Country?

Abby Huntsman | Posted 05.13.2012

Abby Huntsman

So, here we are: a world of commentators, Tweeters, bloggers, and citizens with one of the most powerful tools developed in the history of mankind (the Internet) at our fingertips, literally, but how do we plan to use it? And, what is our collective responsibility?

Somebody You Used to Know Forever and Ever

Amalia Negreponti | Posted 05.02.2012

Amalia Negreponti

The Internet is our first success in the quest for a kind of "forever" and "togetherness." Through its amazing innovations we stay 'on' all the time, connected to one another, alive through this connection of ours.

The Best Of The Worst Online Dating Pickup Artists

BuzzFeed | Posted 04.27.2012

Of all the ridiculous kinds of men one meets while dating – the “I’m so nice why don’t women like me” guys, the “I spent money on you so w...

Ultra-Orthodox Jews To Hold Rally Against The Internet

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 05.01.2012

A mass rally against the Internet and technology held by a group of Haredim, or ultra-orthodox Jews, will take place in Queens, New York on May 20, re...

When Private Becomes Public -- Bad Decisions Online Can Come Back to Haunt You

Craig Agranoff | Posted 05.14.2012

Craig Agranoff

There are many things you do online that are considered normal and probably will never get you in any sort of trouble or besmirch your good name. Sometimes, though, seemingly innocent things may become horrific defilers of your reputation.

13 Reasons You Should Spend More Time On The Internet

David Weinberger | Posted 03.24.2012

David Weinberger

Now that knowledge is moving onto its roomy, new, hyperlinked medium, we're beginning to see how much of what we took for granted about knowledge was really due to the limitations of its old paper medium.

10 Artsy Music Videos We Can't Stop Watching

Andrew Reilly | Posted 01.23.2012

We're going to ahead and call the disappearance of the music video a big fat myth. Thanks perhaps nearly-universally to YouTube, music videos are b...

Study: Many Of Us Go Online For No Reason

AP | By BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 12.05.2011

NEW YORK -- For anyone who needed official word, a new study confirms that many of us – and the majority of young adults – go online for n...

The Internet's Syd and Matt Talk 'Cocaine' and Homophobia

Alex Chapman | Posted 01.29.2012

Alex Chapman

A member of Odd Future, DJ Syd Tha Kid, and a close affiliate, Matt Martians, have momentarily branched out with a side-project aptly titled The Internet, an amalgamation of Syd's sultry coo and the duo's funk-tinged production and poignant lyrics.

How Big Is The Internet?

CNN | Posted 11.13.2011

A group called the World Wide Web Foundation -- appropriately founded by Tim Berners-Lee, who pretty much created the internet -- is on a quest to fig...

Democrats Want Hardworking Americans to Pay for Everything! Now, the Internet?

The Relentless Conservative | Posted 10.26.2011

The Relentless Conservative

While the Internet may be important, there's no reason why the rest of us paying customers should pay more so that the unemployed and chronic poor get a free ride.

Time, Well-Being and the Political Moment

Paul Stoller | Posted 10.12.2011

Paul Stoller

In America, the land of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, there seems to be a limited pool of well-being. We are wired-in, but existentially alone; we are electronically connected in social networks, but isolated from social groups.

Thoughts On Freedom Of Speech in Europe

Laila Escartín-Sorjonen | Posted 10.11.2011

Laila Escartín-Sorjonen

We cannot conceive democracy without freedom of speech. Finnish On-line magazine Journalisti.fi classifies Finland, Switzerland, Iceland and Sweden a...

WATCH: MTV Explains The Internet In 1995

Posted 09.27.2011

It seems ridiculous now, but in 1995 MTV News devoted an entire four minute segment to this new thing called the Internet. Just like Katie Couric ...

Pentagon Says Foreign Hackers Stole 24,000 Military Files In March

The Huffington Post | Gerry Smith | Posted 09.13.2011

Foreign hackers infiltrated the network of a defense contractor in March, stealing 24,000 military files in a single intrusion, Deputy Defense Secreta...

How The Internet Works

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...

Alex Wagner

ICANN Opens Domain Naming: Is the 'Dot Com' Boom Over?

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 08.21.2011

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced on Monday one of the most significant changes to Internet naming since "dot com" was...

9 Ways To Draw The Internet

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 08.14.2011

How does one portray the Internet? As an amorphous blob of cats? A jumble of tubes? The Google logo? A void? This was the question posed by digita...

Internet's GDP Contribution Greater Than Energy, Agriculture, Mining: Study

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 07.24.2011

The Internet is causing economic growth across the world that exceeds the pace of the Industrial Revolution of the 1800s. According to a new repor...

Bianca Bosker

As Internet Use Grows, Is It Polarizing Political Views?

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.29.2011

Even as an increasing number of Americans go online for political news, more than half of U.S. Internet users are wary of the web’s influence and vi...

Are You An Anxiety Junkie? 7 Strategies To Break The Addiction

Judith Orloff MD | Posted 11.17.2011

Judith Orloff MD

Being aware of what triggers your anxiety and mindfully making choices to cope with them provides emotional freedom. life. Then you won't simply be reacting when your buttons get pushed.

Internet 'Founder' On The Challenges To The Web

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

At a recent conference in Hong Kong, the Wall Street Journal sat down with Google VP and "Chief Internet Evangelist" Vinton Cerf to speak about how cu...

The Coming of Age for Social Media -- Experiencing the Crisis in Egypt

April Rudin | Posted 05.25.2011

April Rudin

The Egyptian government's knee jerk reaction of taking the Internet down will be remarkable in history in its obviously real-life demonstration of the power of information.

To SEO or Not to SEO? A Blogger's Dilemma

Kim Mance | Posted 05.25.2011

Kim Mance

Everyone who's been blogging for any amount of time has heard the term SEO. But that's where the similarity ends -- some bloggers obsess about it, liv...