There’s always a lot of chaos and confusion surrounding a physical assault made on a political figure, but yesterday’s attack on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has the potential to […]
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As I wrote yesterday, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch has a radical idea for how to make money off of news content online: he wants to charge for it. In […]
A gifted student who publicly confronted Iran’s Supreme Leader has reportedly gone missing and an internet campaign has been launched to publicise his disappearance.
People see what their tools let them see. Case in point: How different the world looks when it’s mapped according to unfamiliar principles. Even more striking than a reverse-pole map […]
Editor of the Irish Times, Geraldine Kennedy, thinks the Internet poses an existential threat to the freedom of the press because it jeopardizes newspapers’ solvency. Kennedy’s remark comes at a […]
I wanted to start the year off on a positive note, but a spin around the blogosphere today has already got my blood pressure up. In particular, I am extremely […]
The race to archive GeoCities pages began after the free website company’s imminent demise was announced.
Author Janet Malcom’s book discusses the “morally indefensible” career of journalism in an industry which turns guttings into a spectator sport.
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A nasty virus has been hitching a lift on Facebook’s password reset confirmation email, posing a risk for users.
Calvin Trillin fondly remembers how print journalism overcame its last big opponent, television, and wonders if it will be able to deal with the Internet in the same way.
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The promise of broadband Internet in Africa just took an ugly publicity hit—from a pigeon. The BBC reports that a carrier pigeon was able to deliver four gigabytes of data […]
This is a very cold-hearted digital world that doesn’t seem to care much for music.
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The Facebook game FarmVille is making agriculture sexy again. But are online farms warping our view of how food is made?
Milton Glaser has no problem with mediums that limit design potential—they can produce great work—but he worries that technology is removing the most powerful instrument of art from the equation: […]
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Does sexuality impact the world of professional bonding? Internet entrepreneur Peter Sisson weighs in on the issue. This video is part of a “Profiles in Entrepreneurship” series with Start Out, […]
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Wine Library TV’s Gary Vaynerchuk alerts the wine industry of major changes being brought on by new media and social media, but defends the old guard – Robert Parker and […]
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In 2005, The New York Times revealed that under a presidential order signed in 2002, the National Security Agency (NSA) had been monitoring the phone calls, e-mails, and internet traffic […]
The social networking site Twitter has taken off this year. According to Alexa it is now the 15th-most widely used site on the web. Its micro-blogging format—users post 140 character […]
It’s startling to think that a six-foot one-inch, 230-pound football star can be undone by 140 little characters, but that’s exactly what happened to Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry […]
Europe’s obsession with tradition has made its venture into the Internet age a relatively slow one. BigThink recently posted about Italy’s troubles with censorship, blogging and the government’s tight grip […]
Al-Jazeera English Television celebrated its fourth birthday at the end of last year. Launched with much fanfare, albeit after an eighteen month delay, the channel that promised to tread where […]
Margot Wallström believes the Internet and social media have strengthened democracy in both the EU and the United States.
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Whether you like it or not, you have a personal brand. Wine Library TV host Gary Vaynerchuk, one of the Internet’s most successful social media operators, tells Big Think how […]
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Fittingly, it was my wife who pointed me to a great little story in the Washington Post about how some women in India are refusing to get married until the […]
When Nigeria handed over a disputed peninsula to Cameroon last year, it looked a lot like a happy ending — a war averted and, in the words of the United […]
Gary Vaynerchuk is “not here to joke around” when it comes to employing social media such as Facebook and Twitter to build his brand. The Internet has created a whole […]
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