This is my comment on the increasing irrelevant AP's desperate last ditch effort to prevent it from going the way of the many bankrupt newspapers that have went before it. [See AP IS DESPARATE TO OUTLAW SEARCH ENGINE LINKING] For the last 30 years or so the AP self censored...
As of March 27, YouTube was available again in China following a four-day layoff, reportedly over a video showing police brutality in Tibet that authorities insisted was fake. In recent years, China's web censors (colloquially known as the Great Firewall or the Net Nanny)...
created by breningstall | 38 wks ago | updated 38 wks ago 315 views | 32 recommendations | 5 comments
December 6, I attended the InternetForEveryone.org coalition's first town hall, in Los Angeles, CA. Organized by Free Press, they are seeking input and participation from everyone interested in the future of the...
opinion by Erik Larson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 70 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
A new study from the Committee to Protect Journalists reveals the majority of journalists in prison around the world are web-based; 45% are bloggers or web-based media- print media comprise 42% of the total. China, Cuba and Burma are the worse offenders. Many are imprisoned...
created by Erik Larson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 46 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Obama beat McCain in both electoral and popular votes, but loses the popularity contest for the public's attention on the World Wide Web. The revolution will be webcast; but people will watching Britney's buns...
created by Erik Larson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 378 views | 20 recommendations | 4 comments
Collective Intelligence is an emerging field that analyzes data gathered from the increasing number of sources that store and track information about people's movements and habits; cell phone calls, GPS units,...
created by Erik Larson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 106 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and other people-driven new media are increasingly the front lines of news coverage on important breaking events. While they sometimes include erroneous information, they are proving to be a valuable resource for firsthand reports, and local knowledge...
opinion by Erik Larson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 472 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The theft of Sarah Palin's "private" emails from her Yahoo account this week flared into a potentially fascinating but short-lived story of the presidential campaign. Apparently, there is little within the emails...
opinion by jstovall | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 509 views | 29 recommendations | 9 comments
News broke over the weekend of a new entity in cyberspace — something called “The Grid” — that’s likely to render today’s internet obsolete. After reading articles like this one and this one.. I thought about how this superfast web...
Amit Sheth, Ph.D., is pioneering the next generation of Web technology with applications in diverse fields ranging from defense and thwarting terrorism to health care and financial services. The results of his efforts will spur economic development through the creation of...
created by dimon | 2 years ago 247 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
As XML, CSS and RSS, JAVA and JavaScript become the dominant authoring and scripting languages on the Internet, is HTML already dead?
It's more and more rare that HTML skills are required of web developers, but they sure need to know XML and CSS. Even BBCode is taking...
created by indierockcafe | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 641 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment