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Blogger Anil Dash details his role in establishing his medium as the Internet’s primary form of communication—and explains why he’ll never write a book about it.

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For better or for worse, Adolph Hitler has been inescapable throughout history, whether as a reminder of the evils of fascism or a rallying force for hateful extremists. A seminal […]

If knowledge is power, then Google is the New York Yankees, CIA and Vitali Klitschko rolled into one. As the internet juggernaut maintains its dominance online, its influence on the […]

There’s a certain Wild West mentality that reigns supreme on the internet. That could all change with a precedent-setting court ruling on a recent name-calling incident. Former Australian Vogue cover […]

Amanda Congdon discusses sharing her life with the Internet.

Already recognized as an award-winning visionary director and constant collaborator with Johnny Depp (the pair have made seven films together), little has been made of Tim Burton: the artiste. Sure, […]

Recap: The Internet made previously paid-for content suddenly free and vendors who relied on the profitability of the written, spoken and video recorded word are struggling to stay afloat. Journalism […]

We’re constantly being told by magazines such as US News and World Report that there is a “College Crisis” and “Costs and Dropout Rates Keep Rising.” There is an easy solution.

A lot of people were deluged upon finding out all about the available weight loss supplements. There are plenty of claims coming out that are abstracted to natural nutritional supplements, […]

The Free Library of Philadelphia (Philly’s public library system) shuts down on October 2nd, 2009 due to budget cuts.

The emergence of powerful internet institutions, particularly in the area of search and semantics, is subverting the once vaunted democracy of the internet.

Few of my pet peeves equal my distaste for conspiracy theories, whether it’s that the moon landing was a hoax, that the Bush Administration had a hand in 9/11, or […]

The digital expert explains how the Internet is best used as an advertising platform.

It’s a familiar scene: It’s Tuesday night and you’ve finally settled into your couch to watch television. Your “work” Blackberry vibrates. You check it. It’s an email from your boss […]

The real Tony La Russa had no legal case against the fake Tony La Russa, at least not on Twitter. The manager of the St. Louis Cardinals filed his suit […]

American society’s Internet addiction is natural and avoiding it is nearly impossible.

Written by: Julien Mailland For more, please visit: www.globalmedialaw.com

The Internet has created a way to tell stories that is uniquely suited to the medium.

Big Think had the chance to sit down this week with Anil Dash, Chief Evangelist of Six Apart, the developers of the influential and pervasive blogging platforms Movable Type and […]

Bloggers the world over are uniting to support free speech in Iran with all the brilliance and subtlety only the Internet could muster. In a movement to obscure reporting from […]

The source of the controversy in the psychology community this week is the Rorschach Test. You may not recognize that name, but you’ve seen parts of the test before: they’re those […]

Written by: Andrew Harms

Dumb and high-minded content both have a home on the Internet.

the evolutions and revolutions of the human social sytems and system.

While most of the high-minded concern over the death of newspapers has been over the quality of future reporting and the role of news in a democratic society, it has […]

“The thing I find incredibly awesome about the internet is that it…weeds out the complainers.”


Written by: Katya Fisher Yoffe

In the pre-Internet world, you might have told a few people about a lousy experience you had with a company. Now the Web lets you tell millions… and your message never goes away.

The next evolution of the computer age is perhaps upon us. No longer will we be concerned with hard drive size or ram. It will just be about speed to access the net and home computers will be merely portals