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June 10, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 6/10/24

Setbacks in the artificial intelligence revolution. The internet comes for Amazon tribes. And pro-life protesters...

April 2024

April 01, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 4/1/24

Church of England group wanting to deconvert African Christians; The end of the internet as...

March 2024

March 08, 2024

The Man Who Predicted Our Technology and Its Impact

Sixty years ago, thirty years before the worldwide web, Marshall McLuhan not only anticipated the...

May 2023

May 29, 2023

Monday Miscellany 5/29/23

The next big thing in diversity, Silicon Valley turns to "post-rationalism," and half of all...

March 2019

March 29, 2019

Europe’s Plan to Destroy the Internet

The European Union has passed a new copyright law that has the potential to fundamentally...

December 2016

December 19, 2016

January 2016

January 25, 2016

Your brain has as much memory as the internet

New research into the brain's synapses has found that the human brain has 10 times...

July 2015

July 13, 2015

Making online ‘trolling’ illegal?

New Zealand has passed a law that would punish "harmful digital communication"--harassing, bullying, or indecent...

March 2015

March 23, 2015

The internet’s utopian libertarianism

The Washington Post has a fascinating article about a manifesto written in 1996 entitled A...

February 2015

February 27, 2015

Net neutrality or Obamanet?

The FCC voted to regulate the internet so that service providers cannot charge different kinds...

January 2015

January 14, 2015

Beware the leap second?

On June 30, an extra second will be added to the Bureau of Standard's atomic...

December 2014

December 02, 2014

Professional trolls

Trolls--those who make harsh and nasty comments just to take over and disrupt discussions--are the...

August 2014

August 07, 2014

Time to change your passwords

A group of Russian criminals has collected 1.2 billion user names and passwords. And since...

May 2014

May 16, 2014

Associated Press will shorten the news

We've blogged about the findings that the internet has diminished people's ability to read long,...

April 2014

April 08, 2014

Does the internet degrade our ability to read?

There is some evidence that the way we read on the internet--skimming, surfing, hopping from...

March 2014

March 17, 2014

U.S. giving up control of the Internet

What do you think of this? U.S. officials announced plans Friday to relinquish federal government...

March 12, 2014

Happy 25th birthday to the Internet

The "world wide web" came into existence 25 years ago today, making the internet as...

August 2013

August 15, 2013

Taxation without representation

Just what school children need: more internet! President Obama has a new signature program in...

August 01, 2013

The NSA and the end of the “world wide” web

According to British journalist John Naughton, the consequences of the NSA surveillance scheme, as revealed...

July 2013

July 05, 2013

Is the internet worth it?

Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson argues that the internet is not worth it. Yes, it's...

June 2013

June 10, 2013

The Surveillance State is also Bugging the Internet

As we posted about last week, the federal government has been secretly monitoring millions of...

April 2013

April 11, 2013

The next step in internet TV

As a follow-up to our ZeroTV discussion, I present to your information about Aereo, a...

April 05, 2013

From spam to bacn

I have learned a new word, though I'm quite familiar with the reality. From BBC...

December 2012

December 06, 2012

Suing negative reviewers

You know those user reviews on online sites like Yelp, Angie's List, Yahoo, and all...

June 2012

June 11, 2012

Mining “big data”

An interesting article by Ariana Eunjung Cha on how financiers, politicians, and researchers are mining...

June 06, 2012

Hacking into the rest of our technology

One of those darn kids invented a monster. It is called Shodan. And it threatens...

April 2012

April 23, 2012

The new religion of Kopimism

A new religion, born of the internet age, is seeking legal recognition: A Swedish religion...

January 2012

January 20, 2012

The internet strike may have worked

The Wikipedia blackout and other protests on the internet to the SOPA bill may have...

January 18, 2012

Wikipedia is on strike today

If you try looking something up today on Wikipedia, you won't be able to. The...

December 2011

December 14, 2011

Land rush for domain names

A host of new domain names are going up on the internet, with unintended consequences:...