Internet Addiction: Dealing With Withdrawal
Shortly after my girlfriend and I decided to rent a New Hampshire summer house together in 2007, we made a vexing discovery: Internet access wasn't go...
Shortly after my girlfriend and I decided to rent a New Hampshire summer house together in 2007, we made a vexing discovery: Internet access wasn't go...
nytimes.com | Deborah Solomon | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
Editor of the blog Feministing.com rates the effectiveness of online activism compared to old-style models of political engagement like rallies and ma...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology
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.
Don Tapscott | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology
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.
BBC | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary"....
Andy Plesser | Posted 10.10.2009 | Technology
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.
Charlotte Safavi | Posted 11.08.2009 | Style
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 10.19.2009 | Comedy
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 09.30.2009 | Technology
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 09.24.2009 | Politics
Can government become a platform of, for and by the people?
Rahul Sonnad | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media
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 07.04.2009 | World
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.
Tom Alderman | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media
Like Guttenberg's printing press, the Internet has created radically new opportunities and systems that have put us at the beginning of a seismic cultural shift and yet, something is terribly wrong.
Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media
I see editorial writing in U.S. mainstream media, with a very few exceptions, as propaganda deprived of intellectual reflection. The public senses this as well, distrusts the media instinctively.
Walter Isaacson | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media
I hope that 2009 will be the year when creators of valuable content start charging and readers begin paying for the journalism they want.
nytimes.com | Wyatt Mason | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living