With the net, we have a counterweight to government and media. So the net is not a subset of lands we now know. It is not a a new land. It is the public sphere. Or it can be. It is up to us to protect it.
As Microsoft did a number of years ago, Apple needs to admit it has security issues and not only provide technology fixes but also education to help its customers understand that using a Mac, while nice, is not all worry-free.
Loyal3 could help answer the question of how Facebook might both go public and retain its independence and innovativeness, without being crushed by Wall Street's shortsighted pursuit of quarterly profit.
A new YouTube manifesto from someone claiming to speak for Anonymous calls on everyone in the online world to join a revolt against governments and corporations that are intent upon stifling free speech online.
About 18 months after Avatar turned everyone into a 3D fanatic, the 'cool' factor is wearing off, as audiences are realizing that most 3D isn't going to blow their minds or take them to another world of immersion.
As the Digital Age changes our personal relationships, information consumption and business operations, is it also going to change our physical environment as well?
The iPad has "truly become the fourth screen." Session time on the device matches the time spent with traditional media such as periodicals and television.
On Monday, the rumor and speculation will end, as the world finds out what Apple has really been working on all this time -- and whether we want to use it to play our music.
Starting at 3:35 Coordinated Universal Time today, we observed that approximately two-thirds of all Syrian networks became unreachable from the global Internet.
Dr. Marcia McNutt is the director of the U.S. Geological Survey, the nation's largest Earth, water, biological science and civilian mapping agency.
I sat down with string theorist Brian Greene and six-time Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Alan Alda to discuss how science can be re-conceptualized from boring classroom lectures into a wondrously exciting narrative.
Zach Klein is a 27-year-old entrepreneur whose latest business venture is SVPPLY, an online shopping site with user-generated product selection.
In the end, I think we all ought to send a message to all those people who think it's their jobs to tell us about the things that are bad for us. Shut up. Stand down. Join the rest of us in the 21st Century. We'll be here waiting.
It's one thing to choose your filters. It's quite another to have your interests assumed and accounted for by software without your knowledge.
The Internet measures everything. And I am a slave to those measurements. I've started measuring my sense of self-worth using the same metrics as the Internet uses to measure success.
Facebook is in danger of becoming the DMV of social networking sites: we go there because we have to, not because we want to.
While it is hard not to be taken with the tool just by virtue of it being really cool, I found it inspiring for how we can perhaps teach people about their personal privacy.
What California companies will we be talking about in five years? Probably the ones that started here but felt overtaxed, overregulated and unappreciated, and took their act on the road.
How vulnerable is the internet to such a break-down? It's already gone down twice.
Terry Newell, 2011.06.04
Turnstyle, 2011.06.03
Jim Cowie, 2011.06.03
Tom Fox, 2011.06.03