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Can you really save the planet by using the Internet more?

By Sarah Sorensen
October 6, 2009

The network offers us a sustainable platform for change, but to use it to its full advantage we must understand it; we must understand how it works, how it's integral to our daily lives and how its potential can be tapped more effectively to tackle our toughest environmental, social, economic and political problems.

Latest Installment in the Net Neutrality Debate

By Sarah Sorensen
September 22, 2009

Yesterday, the FCC proposed rules that would create more government control over the Internet and force Internet providers (including wireless) to treat all Web traffic equally. There could be unintended consequences...

Report: Facebook A Haven For Hate Groups

By Caitlyn Martin
September 18, 2009

Dr. Oboler published a new report on Tuesday and this time he has targeted Facebook and with good reason. Despite a prohibition in the popular social networking website's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, it's terms of service, Facebook has remained a happy home for Holocaust denial and racist "white pride" groups.

New Poll: Will you pay for Internet content?

By Rich Tretola
July 29, 2009

Recently, Barry Diller, chairman and chief executive officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp, said that he believes that in the near future Web users will have to pay for what they watch and use on the Internet. Other media moguls including Liberty Media...

Network's Impact on Media - Part II

By Sarah Sorensen
July 28, 2009

While the network gives people a voice that can be used en masse to try to affect change, the resulting proliferation of news sources has some very real challenges. It can fracture and lessen the impact of any particular voice and, because information can come from anyone and anywhere, it is hard to verify...

Bing's Sanaz Ahari on Query Level Categorization (1 of 2)

By Brady Forrest
June 29, 2009

A couple of weeks ago Bing had a small search summit for analysts, bloggers, SEO experts, entrepreneurs and advertisers. It was held in Bellevue; they put us up in the hotel and fed us. While there we received demos from Bing project teams. I was able to snag an interview with Sanaz Ahari, Lead PM on Bing. She led the...

Four short links: 25 May 2009

By Nat Torkington
May 25, 2009

China is Logging On -- blogging 5x more popular in China than in USA, email 1/3 again as popular in USA as China. These figures are per-capita of Internet users, and make eye-opening reading. (via Glynn Moody) The Economics of Google (Wired) -- the money graf is Google even uses auctions for internal operations, like allocating servers among its...

The Day the World Stood Still

By Amy Blankenship
May 24, 2009

Actually it was over two days. Two days last week when the unthinkable happened: our Internet went down. Let me tell you, it was a maddening experience, because both my husband and I work from home. First, everything slowed waaaay...

It's Really Just a Series of Tubes

By Jesse Robbins
April 7, 2009

Molly Wright Steenson hit the Ignite jackpot at Etech this year with her explanation of the steam powered network of pneumatic tubes of the 1800s. If you're someone that, like me, has a [somewhat obsessive relationship with Internet Infrastructure](http://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity), you must watch this talk.

The Best Webcomics You're Not Reading

By James Turner
January 22, 2009

At the Arisia Science Fiction Convention last weekend, I moderated a panel with SF Writer Lawrence Watt-Evans and comics fan Israel Peskowitz. We spent 45 minutes reeling off a list of the webcomics that we love, past and present. In no particular order (ok, in alphabetical order...), here's the list we came up with, along with the status of the comic when known. Remember, even when a comic is no longer active, it may have a huge archive worth perusing.

My 2009 Resolution: Learn IPv6

By James Turner
January 4, 2009

In which the author recounts his adventures getting an IPv6 tunnel hooked up to his home network.

Data, Noise, and the Missing Internet Epistemology

By chromatic
December 19, 2008

We have more data than ever before, but is there meaning in the noise? Maybe we need a new epistemology for the Internet.

A Certain Sense of Powerlessness

By James Turner
December 14, 2008

If you haven't been keeping up with the news coming out of the North Eastern US over the last few days, we've had a little bit weather. That is to say, we had about an inch of ice cover everything it could on Thursday night, and gravity being what it is, a lot of trees and power poles decided this would be a good time to lie down and take a little rest.

Obama Rides the Internet to the White House

By Kurt Cagle
November 6, 2008

Al Gore may have "invented" the Internet (as his critics occasionally charged) but there is no question that Barack Obama is the first successful presidential nominee to fully exploit the medium's potential. While it is always difficult to know any president-elect's exact plans for a topic as focused as the Internet, a look at how he used the power of social networking and the Internet in general provides an intriguing look into the technical side of an Obama administration.

Technology, Politics and Democracy

By Joshua-Michele Ross
October 21, 2008

Recently I spoke with Jascha Franklin-Hodge, CTO and co-founder of Blue State Digital about how technology is affecting politics and democracy in the U.S. Blue State Digital was born out of Jascha's experience helping Howard Dean’s seminal run for the White House in ’04. and is the technology and strategic services company powering Barack Obama (and many other Democratic leaders...

Mac vs PC: Does it matter anymore?

By C.K. Sample III
August 15, 2008

Is Mac vs. PC becoming irrelevant because of the maturing of the internet as a platform and cloud computing?

Dan Kaminsky: Upgrade Your DNS Now!

By chromatic
August 14, 2008

DNS is the fundamental human-friendly abstraction of the Internet. It maps names such as oreilly.com to addresses computers can understand. Yet there are flaws in the protocol, which mean that malicious users can redirect your request for oreilly.com for their own nefarious purposes. Security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered this danger and convinced the major DNS providers to work around the flaw. Here's how you can protect yourself and your information.

National Internet Archives

By Bryan Rasmussen
June 20, 2008

The Internet Archive obeys robots.txt of course (lucky for you if you have access to it on your site, otherwise not so much) and they will also agree to remove things at the domain owners request. Other libraries might not be so accommodating, specifically the Danish netarchive might not be so accommodating, lets look at some stuff they say - the following is from the already linked survey report:

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