Tag Archives: Internet

Who is the greatest American ever? Discovery Channel and America Online have teamed up to answer that question with a campaign that combines original television and online programming with interactive online features. The initiative, which kicked off January 13, will give Americans a chance to determine who will be named …

Michael K. Powell, 41, will step down in March as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission after almost four years as the government’s top media and telecommunications regulator, he announced today. Poor Michael Powell, the son of Colin Powell, was in over his head as major domo of the FCC. …

There are an estimated 300,000 blogs in China, with thousands being added daily. The government is stepping up efforts to control their content. The OpenNet Initiative — a partnership of the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society …

I will speaking at this seminar tomorrow morning in Cleveland -- should be great!

Computer security experts mi2g say Al Jazeera “is running its computer network like a ‘match-box’ organisation in comparison to its Western peer group”: Al-Jazeera, the at times controversial Arab news satellite channel, has had its computer network compromised by Trojans with built-in mail relay engines since the Arab weekend began …

Talk about echo chamber: the Internet is swell and all as a communication device and information source, BUT YOU MUST CONSIDER THE SOURCE. The stupid shit that gets passed around breathlessly from bored office-bound computer slave to computer slave wouldn’t survive a smell test by Jake Gittes if those doing …

Text messaging technology helped link people and information during and in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster, and texting may become part of a warning system for the Indian Ocean: Sanjaya Senanayake works for Sri Lankan television. The blogging world, though, might know him better by his online name, Morquendi. …

According to a new report issued today by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2004 was the year blogs took off, with readership up 58%: By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture. Two surveys by the Pew Internet & American …

I — a hard-boiled veteran of the media contest wars — am pretty jaded, but this is an impressive prize package from Interscope/A&M: *2 tickets to every Interscope/A&M show in the winners hometown *every Interscope/A&M album that comes out in 2005 *plus other special prizes (including autographed items) throughout the …

I am honored and humbled — to a degree of which my typically expansive ego is unaccustomed — to have been asked by Small Business Trends to speak live on the global nerve-net as part of their speaker’s series “SMB Trendwire” Thursday, December 16 at 4pm ET. The conversation with …