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Why Windows web browsing market share drop means very little to Microsoft
If you torture numbers long enough, you can make them say anything. In this case, it's Chitika, Techcrunch, and others...
The growing reach of social media’s election impact
Social media and the internet in general had dramatic effects on the election in 2008. This year is proving to...
Website owners, here’s how to protest SOPA on January 18th
Social news aggregator Reddit.com took the lead and announced that they were "going black" on January 18th to protest SOPA...
Internet Access Is a Human Right
Technology and philosophy have been at the center of more debates lately than ever before. It's clear that technology is...
“The Internet in 1969” was eerily correct
Predictions of the future are often foolish and do not accurately represent reality. In this case, they got it nailed...
What people are doing online right now
The internet takes up a huge part of our daily lives. Many of us have integrated real-world activities into our...
Rich people spend 30% more time online than everyone else
The way we all consume media has changed dramatically over the last decade and even more so over the last...
The current state of digital education
The promise of the internet 2 decades ago was that it would help to reshape the way we do things....
Is the “daily deals” phenomenon just a fad?
The easiest way to get people to use a service is to save them money. That fact has been the...
10 tips to keep your family safe online
Safety has been a concern online since kids started showing their parents how to surf. Now, as adults are realizing...
Three misguided fears about the web
Every so often, almost like clockwork, someone will come out and say that the internet is ruining everything. This week,...
How the Internet has Evolved
Can you even remember life without the Internet? It has become such an embedded aspect of our lives that many...
Why I Might Be Out Of A Job Soon
I have been blogging professionally for nearly five years — it has been my sole source of income. It isn't...
Through the Generations: How the Web is Being Used
Most of us spend a great deal of time on the Internet. It has become the most prevalent activity during...
Why IPv6 Matters
Simply said, a protocol is a set of rules governing how things work in a certain technology, so that there...
The Cost to Connect: What Small Businesses Should Expect to Pay for Staying Connected
Nearly every small business in the United States relies on broadband Internet connections in one way or another. Even those...
Adding “Internet Freedom” to the Internet Kill Switch Bill Is Putting Lipstick on a Pig
When we first started investigating the Internet Kill Switch Bill, we thought it was humorous that it was being reintroduced...
17 Years Ago, “What is ‘Internet’?” Was Asked on The Today Show
Has it really only been 17 years? Apparently, Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel had no idea what the Internet was,...
Why the Internet Kill Switch is a Really, REALLY Bad Idea
There are certain things, particularly in politics and technology, that seem to make sense on the surface. Take, for instance,...
Have We Reached a World of Infinite Information?
No, but we're not far off. The acceleration of the creation and discovery of information is reaching a point that...