AP PROPAGANDA VS FREEDOM OF THE PRESS VS CENSORSHIP

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...

YouTube online again in China (for two days-see update)

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)...

InternetForEveryone.org - LA Town Hall Recap

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...

CPJ Study: Majority of Jailed Journalists are Web-based

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...

Britney Spears and Wrestling More Popular on the Web Than Obama

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...

Who Owns the Rights to Your Privacy; Your Digital Trail?

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,...

Mumbai Terror: Twitter, Flickr & YouTube = Cutting-Edge News Media

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...

Palin, her emails, her hacker: No secrets

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...

‘The Grid’ Destined to Change the Language

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...

Researchers Pioneer New Ground In Internet Technology

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...

Is HTML Dead or Dying?

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...

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