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Internet holidays: International Caps Lock Day

It happens twice a year, and today is one of those two glorious celebratory days: INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY! The first instance of International Caps Lock Day, the less established one, was added in honor of the much ... continue

Is the Internet actually destroying the ‘surprise’ of television?

There is no doubt that the Internet has forever changed our entertainment industry. Even though the power brokers in the industry are doing everything they can to keep their talons wrapped tightly around the creation and distribution ... continue

Memes: What you wanted to ask but really don’t care about

If there is one rule about Internet memes it is that they can become increasingly irritating almost as fast as it take for them to take off. After all who can forget that very first Rick Roll or ... continue

A history lesson about the Internet [Infographic]

I have been doing this online thing since before the Internet became the hottest thing since the invention of the telephone and can still remember conversations with other bulletin board (BBS) sysops about this new fangled thing ... continue

Getting net-jacked by Google and Verizon

I've been watching this whole Google and Verizon lovefest that is going on but decided to hold off having my say until the inevitable disclaimer post from Google showed up and good to form it showed up ... continue

Need to explain how the Internet works? There’s now an infographic for that.

We all have them. Family members and friends who look to you as being the Internet Guru who can explain how it all works. The problem is that the moment we try to explain we see that ... continue

An Internet meme immortalized in bling

Anyone who has been around the Web pre-Facebook and Twitter should recognize the stylization of this blinged out Claddagh ring. If not I'll leave it up to you to do a goatse image search, just make sure ... continue

Broadband in America: Is it time to think small?

More than once I have said that broadband providers need to stop being content providers and become dumb pipe providers. The moment that you mix the two together you automatically have a conflict of interest where, in ... continue

Who knew women were so dirty minded

Yup, it seems, according to Today's Christian Woman, that one out of six women (Christian women included) are being lured into pornography addiction. Now I want to just clarify one thing before going any further with this rib tickling ... continue

Zack likes stealing internet and porn. Possibly not in that order.

And lo Zack never left his apartment again. [Via Gizmodo] continue

Memo to the President: Hands of the Internet

Mr. President you may have heard about this thing called the Internet, it's that thing that has become a global backbone of communication, e-commerce, and yes some really silly crap called Social Media. Here's the thing though ... continue

A day in the life of an internet addict

More like every day. Every day in the life of an internet addict. [via] continue

Internet Evolution picks their Top 100 Internet movers and shakers

Are you ever curious who in the tech world is considered to be a mover and shaker? Well for the most part neither am but the folks over Internet Evolution went to their readers to see what ... continue

ACTA: The acronym hardly anyone knows yet should be scared to death of

In light if the FCC loss to Comcast in the courts Fred Wilson wrote an interesting post where he uses the phrase Internet Freedom and how it is an important concept for his company Union Square Ventures ... continue

One possibility for true net neutrality

It would be the biggest geek impossible dream but it is an idea I had that could potentially stop the current crop of broadband providers dead in their tracks. In light of the news that the FCC lost ... continue

For the next time the Internet is down

Some days the Internet doesn't even have to be down for us to feel this way. continue

Which is it – Internet addiction or global connectivity?

It's almost given. Give a human being something new to play with and chances are they will get carried away and pour all their attention into that thing. This is why we have things like sports fans ... continue

Our online media world is beginning to look like .. well .. our offline media world

One of the biggest things that both the freetard and the Web 2.0 warm and fuzzy crowd have been trying to implant in our heads is that the future of media is online and it will be ... continue

British teen helps prevent child molestation in US via online chat

An investigation sparked by alarming chats between a British teenager and an online acquaintance in the US may have prevented the rape of a small child in North Carolina. The 17-year-old girl, who has been involved in a ... continue

The end game for Apple and the entertainment industry

I just read one of the most succinct and spot on explanations of the back room dealings that are going on when it comes to the motives behind Apple's move to the cloud. There is one caveat ... continue

Dante’s Internet

Looking at this brilliant illustration of Dante's Internet I'm reminded of things that hasn't changed and will never change on the internet. Spammers, trolls on boards, spelling nazis and people that ask for advice but don't listen. As ... continue

The facts about those 99cent TV shows on the web – it’s gonna be expensive

As broadband get faster and more people are switching their viewing habits to the web television networks are beginning to seriously look at moving their television shows to services like iTunes. A lot of noise has been ... continue