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The Internet rewards the charitable and punishes the greedy
Nicholas “The Voice of Doom” Carr has another one of his periodic columns about how the Internet is ruining everything, and in it he manages to somehow yoke together the evils of GPS navigation systems (because they send people through small villages, apparently) and surfing webcams. What do they have in common? Well, they’re both […]
Smackdown: Andreessen on The Economist
As most of us know too well, the end of the year brings a deluge of “best of” lists and predictions for the coming year (in part to fill the pages of newspapers and magazines that have little or no actual news to print, but still need to put something in to keep the ads […]
Nancy Makin: The Internet saved my life
Forgive me for straying into what be Oprah/daytime talk-show territory, but I did think it was interesting that Nancy Makin — who recently appeared on both the Oprah show and on Diane Sawyer’s show talking about her miraculous loss of more than 570 pounds over three years — effectively gave credit to the Internet for […]
Not that Internet van, the other one
I have to say, when I saw the headlines on Techmeme about the “Internet van” that made history, I thought for a minute that they were all talking about the infamous Telstar Logistics van — but as it turns out, they were just talking about some old bread-delivery van that Vint Cerf and a bunch […]
Ego alert: Me on Internet Evolution
Just a quick post to mention that I was approached awhile back by the folks from Internet Evolution — the blogging and discussion-forum site set up by CMP and some of the team behind Light Reading (which I’m a fan of) — to see if I would contribute articles from time to time, which I […]
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