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Australians are outraged at government plans to censor the internet after trials found that filtering a blacklist of banned sites didn’t slow the web down.

Yahoo! is being criticized now that it has sided with Google against China after keeping quiet about former hacker attacks it had full knowledge of.

Tuesday marks the 30th anniversary of the historic eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington – and Eruptions readers share their memories on the blast that captivated the world.

A new study suggests that 15 per cent of teenagers have received explicitly sexually text messages, dubbed “sext messages”- while 4 per cent have sent sexts.

I like idea of having someone like Elizabeth Warren, who is the head of the Congressional Oversight Panel, watch our financial system. But her advice to the Obama Administration about […]

It was only a matter of time before internet users used their “collective energy” to make a collaborative work of literature, writes The Independent.

2009 finally receives some compliments from Ezra Klein at the Washington Post after a thorough panning from most commentators.

Who are these people in the media who tell us what is important — who decide what the narrative is for the rest of our national tribe? Do they really […]

It only took me a few minutes, after I tuned into the tail end of Obama’s America: 2010 And Beyond on television the other night, to see that we Americans […]

Fox will pull its programming from Time Warner Cable by midnight tonight unless it receives direct payment to broadcast its content.

It’s hard to avoid the barrage of end-of-decade retrospectives this last week of 2009, a decade marked by an interesting combination of the sublime and the ridiculous. But in a […]

As we usher in a new year and say good-bye to the old one, let’s take a last look at the ten most watched Big Think videos of 2009.  You, […]

The $700 billion bailout of the financial industry would never have been offered to Internet companies during the tech bubble bust—and that is problematic, says Peter Thiel.

It was easy when you knew which writers were writing what in your favorite newspapers. Now, if you’re like the rest of us, you’re constantly combing the internet for fresh […]

“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.” —Oscar Wilde If I may borrow a word from this Oscar Wilde quote, I believe the Supreme […]

The Columbian Journalism Review takes a look at the year’s most hilarious newspaper corrections from across the country.

If it wasn’t for the sheer misery of most of its luckless inhabitants, wouldn’t the World be a duller place without North Korea? There really is no place quite like […]

There are two different types of narratives about the Haiti tragedy these days — the ones shown each evening on the nightly news programs of the major television networks and […]

The Guardian has shined some light onto the obscure, back alleyway of the internet: Freenet. Consider it digital anarchy, a unitary place where people can exchange information without identifying themselves […]

Investigators have concluded that Twitter had no role to play in the drowning of a 2-year-old whose mother’s postings prior to his death have been criticised for having “a contributory effect”.

Federal Communications Commission Chair Julius Genachowski called this week for the agency to formally adopt a set of rules governing access to the Internet. The proposed rules are meant to […]

A new social media website named Blippy answers the question: “What are your friends buying?” by making their credit card transactions public.

Iraqi militants have used cheap computer software to intercept live video feeds from US drones in a security breach which could give them enough information to evade air strikes.

Just in time for the holidays comes a study that says loneliness spreads like a disease through people’s social networks. In other words, that sad, isolated feeling is contagious. It’s […]

Facebook has announced measures to encourage its 350m users to make their status updates and shared content visible to the search engines – and the world at large.

Twenty years into the Internet Age, the world of online speech is still anarchic. How much responsibility should websites take in the matter?

The new year always brings new beginnings. For me, it is a time to throw out the detritus from last year, including the voluminous pile of notes I’ve accumulated while […]

Aaron Patzer was frustrated with managing his finances, so he created an internet tool. Two years later, it’s worth $170 million.

A French van driver suspected of making off with €11.6m in cash has become an internet star.

Saudi Arabians have been using the internet to vent fury at the local government’s ineffective response to last week’s flooding in Jeddah that left more than 100 dead.