New Rice University Paper Chronicles Impact of the Internet On U.S. Foreign Policy
BY Sarah Lai Stirland | Tuesday, May 22 2012
We all know that the Internet has transformed the way that the United States conducts diplomacy, and the way that it views national security, but where should we look to find evidence of this? This is the wide-ranging subject matter of a new paper published on Tuesday by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. The paper provides a round-up of some of the major turns of events between 2005 and 2011 in the realms of Internet governance, the development of online public diplomacy at the State Department, the evolution of the Internet-fueled Arab Spring, and the establishment of the shadowy U.S. Cyber Command in Fort Meade, Maryland, among other things. Read More
New Wikileaks Release Helps Explain Who's Reading Your Email, and How
BY Nick Judd | Thursday, December 1 2011
Here and there, outlets like Wired's Threat Level blog or the Washington Post, with an ongoing focus on privacy in the Internet age, have peeled at the edges of the veneer that sits atop a vast and sophisticated ... Read More
The Long Arm of American Copyright Enforcement Efforts Reaches Across the Atlantic
BY Nick Judd | Tuesday, July 5 2011
The U.S.'s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is going after website owners on piracy charges if they are using a .com or .net domain, regardless of where they are in the world or where their sites are hosted, ... Read More
Lawmakers Say State-Sponsored Sex Ed Website Talks Dirty
BY Nick Judd | Thursday, April 28 2011
Some Massachusetts lawmakers apparently think the state has crossed the line in using the Internet for sexual education by supporting a website about sex, sexually transmitted diseases, and HIV that is targeted to teens. ... Read More
How You Get Nicknamed "Mubarak": Woman Out Scavenging for Copper Takes All of Armenia Offline
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, April 7 2011
From the quickly-filling "Internet Fragility" file comes a BBC report that a complete Internet outage that hit Armenia in late March was traced to a Georgian woman who was hunting for copper: The cables, owned ... Read More
The Libyan Internet's So-Gray-It's-Almost-Blackout
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, March 8 2011
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The Art of G(rassroots)SEO
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, October 12 2010
In the old days, we called it Google Bombing, but Daily Kos' Chris Bowers, who pioneered the practice, has re-branded the art of ideological repetative hyperlinking as the somewhat geekier and less aggressive ... Read More
Reagan Son Selling Email Done Right
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, August 2 2010
Eldest Reagan son Michael is selling @Reagan.com email addresses to deny liberal technology companies the business: Read More
Extreme Sites Outpace Extreme Readers
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, April 19 2010
"Ideological segregation on the Internet is low in absolute terms," finds a new study from University of Chicago economists Matthew Genzlow and Jesse Shapiro on the political polarization of the Internet ... Read More
Italy's Hit on the Internet
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, February 24 2010
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