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Internet Addiction: Dealing With Withdrawal

nytimes.com | Wyatt Mason | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Internet, Recovery, Addiction & Recover, Internet Addiction, Email, E-Mail, Travel, Technology, World Wide Web, Wi-Fi, Withdrawal, Unplug and Recharge, Living News

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...

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The New Feminism: Questions For Jessica Valenti

nytimes.com | Deborah Solomon | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Rights, Internet, Women, Feministing.com, Activism, Online, Unplug and Recharge, World Wide Web, Feminism, Social Activism, Living News

Editor of the blog Feministing.com rates the effectiveness of online activism compared to old-style models of political engagement like rallies and ma...

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From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology

Read More: Soviets, World Wide Web, 40th, Pentagon, Mosaic, Bulletin Board, Spam, Net, Netscape, Nuclear, China, Intergalactic Computer Network, Cold War, Britain, Personal Computer, England, Internet, Cern, 40, Malware, Apple, Pc, Russia, Usenet, Russians, Technology, Computer, Gopher, Space Race, Steve Jobs, Www, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Darpa, Lovely Spam, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Swords Into Plowshares, Botnet, Soviet Union, Birthday, Wonderful Spam, Html, Sputnik, Trojan, Hormel, Arpanet, Spiced Ham, Ucla, Chris Weigant, Virus, Spam Spam Spam Spam, Apple II, Hypertext, Steve Wozniak, World War II, Monty Python, Worm, Happy 40th Birthday Internet, Compuserve, Lan, Milnet, Technology News
Chris Weigant

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.

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A Personal Card to the Internet. Happy 40th Birthday!

Don Tapscott | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology

Read More: Internet, Don Tapscott, Leonard Kleinrock, Arpanet, Obama, Packet Switching, World Wide Web, Barack Obama, Technology News
Don Tapscott

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.

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Tim Berners-Lee Apologizes For Forward Slashes In URLs

BBC | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home

Read More: World Wide Web, URL, Berners-Lee, Sorry, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Internet Address, Coding, Www, Tim Berners-Lee, Html, Apologizes, Address, Home News

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary"....

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Video: Sir Tim Berners-Lee Says the Semantic Web Has Arrived and the Obama Administration is "Onboard"

Andy Plesser | Posted 10.10.2009 | Technology

Read More: Semantic Web, Finland, Obama Administration, data.gov, World Wide Web, Steve Lohr, Tim Berners-Lee, Technology News
Andy Plesser

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.

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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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Jimmy Kimmel Celebrates The Internet's 40th Birthday With Montage Of Its Stupidest Moments (VIDEO)

Posted 10.19.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Video, Jimmy Kimmel, World Wide Web, Internet Turns 40, Comedy News

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...

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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...

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Gov 2.0: The Promise of Innovation

Tim O'Reilly | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Facebook Applications, Web 2.0, Obama Web 2.0, Government 2.0, )Bama Government 2.0, World Wide Web, iPhone Apps, Social Media, Politics News
Tim O'Reilly

Can government become a platform of, for and by the people?

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Coming Soon: A New Web - It's Global, Mobile and as Transformational as the World Wide Web

Rahul Sonnad | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Smartphones, Iphone, Internet, Gps, Joe Wilkert, World Wide Web, Global Mobile Web, Media News
Rahul Sonnad

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.

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A Pandemic Worse than the Swine Flu

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Juliet Jeske, Swine Flu Pandemic, Al Franken, Peak Oil, 12 Monkeys, Global Warming, Minnesota, Will Menaker, Avian Flu, RJ Eskow, Jesse Ventura, World Health Organization, The Venus Syndrome, Jeff Horwich, World Wide Web, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, World News
Patrick Takahashi

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.

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The Internet Is Absolute Democracy -- Be Very Afraid!

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Placeless Society, Wmd, Chicago, University of Chicago, Syracuse University, Informed Public, Twitter, Obama, Northwestern University, Thomas Jefferson, Wikipedia, Facebook, Critical Thinking, General Motors, The Internet, Bob Thompson, Youtube, Popular Culture, Aids, Texas Governor, World Wide Web, Authority, Liddite, Datafox, Guttenberg, Media News
Tom Alderman

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.

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Journalism Does Not Need To Be Saved, Newspapers Do

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Editorials, Tribune Company, Chicago Tribune Bankruptcy, Political Debates, Old Media Death Watch, Magazines, Technology, Reporting, Media News, The Internet, Wall Street Journal, Old Media, Old Media vs. New Media, Micropayments, Journalism, Television, Websites, Political Writing, Trivia, Op-Ed, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Death of Newspapers, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, World Wide Web, Walter Isaacson, Economy, Newspapers, Saving Journalism, Media News
Henryk A. Kowalczyk

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.

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A Bold, Old Idea for Saving Journalism

Walter Isaacson | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Newspapers, Bloggers, Amazon Kindle, Wall Street Journal, Journalism, Amazon, Old Media, Television, Kindle, Old Media Death Watch, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Technology, World Wide Web, Myspace, Blogging, Amazon.com Kindle, Magazines, Citizen Journalists, Steve Jobs, Napster, Paypal, Old Media vs. New Media, Jeff Bezos, Citizen Journalism, Aspen Institute, Websites, Death of Newspapers, Apple iTunes, Amazon.com, Itunes, New York Times, Videos, Media News
Walter Isaacson

I hope that 2009 will be the year when creators of valuable content start charging and readers begin paying for the journalism they want.

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