Considering Social Interaction: Even Techies Meet Face-to-Face

As virtual communications inch closer and closer toward simulating real-world everyday interactions, even techies, it seems, prefer meeting face-to-face. Gizmodo scooped a rare, public in-person meeting between Apple'...CLICK TO READ MORE

2 Reasons Why People Trust Facebook’s News More than Google’s

Within a week, online intelligence agency Hitwise reported two big wins for Facebook over Google: a full week of heavier traffic and a higher loyalty rate of news junkies who get their news through either portal. Facebook ...CLICK TO READ MORE

New Frontiers: iPad e-Magazine Pricing

While magazine giants like Wired unroll plans to enter the iPad marketplace by summer, little has been said about the most pressing issue to most consumers: the pricing of e-magazines. Pricing iPad e-magazines provides n...CLICK TO READ MORE

Liberty vs Privacy: the US & EU’s Ideological Internet Collision

In 1863, Alexandre Dumas, famed French author of The Three Musketeers (and known for his love of women) , and Adah Isaacs Menken , a well-known Texan actress, posed for what then qualified as scandalous photographs. The ph...CLICK TO READ MORE

YouTube Turns Five: Changing TV & Creating Celebrities

May 19th, 2010 Culture, Life, Media, Technology 3 Comments

TV networks hate it, audience-seeking creatives love it, and we all watch it: YouTube. Five years ago this past Monday, three former employees of early PayPal — Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jaw.

Internet Access as a Right: the FCC’s National Broadband Plan

March 21st, 2010 Culture, Life, Technology 8 Comments

Should internet access be a right? The Federal Communications Commission thinks it should be. Unveiled on March 16, 2010, the FCC’s National Broadband Plan outlines an ambitious vision to make b.