Professional Trolling
Just a few short years ago the word “troll” in the context of the internet had not even entered our lexicon. Now, you can enter a well-paid career in the distasteful practice, especially if you live in...
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Digital Forensics and the Wayback Machine
Many of us see history — the school subject — as rather dull and boring. After all, how can the topic be made interesting when it’s usually taught by a coach who has other things on his or her mind...
View ArticleThe Internet of Flow
Time-based structures of information and flowing data — on a global scale — will increasingly dominate the Web. Eventually, this flow is likely to transform how we organize, consume and disseminate our...
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Meet the Broadband Preacher
This fascinating article follows Roberto Gallardo an extension professor at Mississippi State University as he works to bring digital literacy, the internet and other services of our 21st century...
View ArticleSoftware That Learns to Eat Itself
Google became a monstrously successful technology company by inventing a solution to index and search content scattered across the Web, and then monetizing the search results through contextual ads....
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MondayMap: Internet Racism
Darkest blue and light blue respectively indicate much less and less racist areas than the national average. The darkest red indicates the most racist zones. No surprise: the areas with the highest...
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The Story of the Default Coordinate: 38°N 97°W
About 40 miles and 40 minutes north-east of Wichita, Kansas lies the small town of Potwin. The 2010 census put the official population of Potwin at 449. Potwin would be an unremarkable town, situated...
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The Death of Permissionless Innovation
The internet and its user-friendly interface, the World Wide Web (Web), was founded on the principle of openness. The acronym soup of standards, such as TCP/IP, HTTP and HTML, paved the way for...
View ArticleClicks or Truth
The internet is a tremendous resource for learning, entertainment and communication. It’s also a vast, accreting blob of misinformation, lies, rumor, exaggeration and just plain bulls**t. So, is there...
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None of Us Is As Smart As All of Us
Bob Taylor died on April 13, 2017 aged 85. An ordinary sounding name for someone who had a hand in founding almost every computing-related technology in the last 50 years. Bob Taylor was a firm...
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