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http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/ Who’s to Blame: Us As much as we love the open, unfettered Web, we’re abandoning it for simpler, sleeker services that just work. by Chris Anderson You wake up and check your email on your bedside iPad — that’s one app. During breakfast you browse Facebook, Twitter, and The New York Times — three more apps.
Find More Stories The imperfect politics of broadband Mark Pesce There's a joke making the rounds today, and it goes like this:"Labor wants to give us South Korea's internet speeds, with North Korea's internet controls." You want another joke?

ABC The Drum Unleashed - The imperfect politics of broadband

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http://readwrite.com/2010/04/10/top_10_youtube_videos_about_the_web Our selection of the 10 most popular YouTube videos about the Web is of course based on page views. But we also filtered the results for videos that are most true to explaining the big-picture version of what the Web is. The selection includes some of the most creative ways the growth of the Web has ever been explained. The fast paced growth of the Web too often keeps us focused on the latest and greatest, to the point were we lose perspective for how the Web has changed over time. So let's take a step back and get a more culturally-oriented overview of the Web.

Top 10 YouTube Videos About The Web

social media and young adults

Overview Two Pew Internet Project surveys of teens and adults reveal a decline in blogging among teens and young adults and a modest rise among adults 30 and older. In 2006, 28% of teens ages 12-17 and young adults ages 18-29 were bloggers, but by 2009 the numbers had dropped to 14% of teens and 15% of young adults . http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx?r=1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8485833.stm

The rise of the web's digital elites

Has the web's potential as a great leveller for the whole world already passed? Ahead of a major series on the BBC about the impact of the web, presenter, social scientist and journalist Aleks Krotoski asks whether the web has already missed its greatest chance. The web is an extraordinary innovation, with the greatest potential to usher in social change since the invention of the printing press or the steam engine. Built upon a technology that is apolitical, unregulated and decentralised, it empowers everyone - men, women, children - to be creators of information, rather than passive consumers. It is also an enormous library of global consciousness, a digital collection of human knowledge from the past and the present and presented in an easy-to-access format. As a result, we now have the unprecedented power to create our own truth, and share it with everyone in the world.
LARRY SANGER Co-founder of Wikipedia and Citizendium The instant availability of an ocean of information has been an epoch-making boon to humanity. But has the resulting information overload also deeply changed how we think? http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_2.html

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The History of the Internet in a Nutshell

http://sixrevisions.com/resources/the-history-of-the-internet-in-a-nutshell/ If you’re reading this article, it’s likely that you spend a fair amount of time online. However, considering how much of an influence the Internet has in our daily lives, how many of us actually know the story of how it got its start? Here’s a brief history of the Internet, including important dates, people, projects, sites, and other information that should give you at least a partial picture of what this thing we call the Internet really is, and where it came from.
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