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June 2008
- Online Readers Have No Attention Span
  
  newser | Slate | Jun 14, 08 6:30 PM CDT
  
  Web readers are fidgety, so writers have to serve up the goods fast, Michael Agger writes in Slate. For example: Online readers are “ selfish, lazy, and ruthless ,” according to theorist Jakob Nielsen. They are informavores hunting for information at all costs. They like text short , scannable , and occasionally bold. And especially love lists . More »
  
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  Internet • reading • online journalism
- MySpace Takes Aim at Yahoo
  
  newser | BusinessWeek | Jun 13, 08 2:08 PM CDT
  
  Myspace is retooling itself to become a more direct competitor to web portals, specifically Yahoo, BusinessWeek reports. Starting Wednesday, the popular social networking site will unveil changes to its homepage such as news headlines, local weather apps, and entertainment links. More »
  
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  Internet • Yahoo • MySpace • email • Jerry Yang • web portal • Internet portal
- Search Engines: How They're Reshaping Your Brain
  
  newser | Atlantic Monthly | Jun 11, 08 10:42 AM CDT
  
  Although he’s thrilled with all the time he saves using the Internet for research and awed by the vast intellectual opportunities available to every web surfer, Nicholas Carr is a bit disconcerted that he no longer has the patience for reading books or long articles. With his netizen mind fidgeting and losing the thread after a few pages, Carr wonders in the Atlantic : What is the net doing to our brains? More »
  
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  Internet • book • computer • reading • artificial intelligence • human intelligence
- Site Will Email Buddies After You Depart in Rapture
  
  newser | ABC News | Jun 10, 08 3:58 PM CDT
  
  A new website will email godless friends and family left behind after you’ve been taken to heaven in the Rapture. For $40 per year, Youvebeenleftbehind.com will store any emails and documents for you, ABC reports—then send them about six days after the Lord hath taken away. The server will know the time has come when its employees don’t log on. More »
  
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  Internet • email • evangelism • computer servers
- Top ISPs Agree to Block Child Porn Sites
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 10, 08 9:33 AM CDT
  
  Three top Internet providers have agreed to block known child pornography hot spots, thanks to some strong-arm tactics from New York AG Andrew Cuomo, the New York Times reports. After an 8-month investigation, Cuomo threatened to come down on Time Warner, Verizon, and Sprint for fraud and deceptive business practices. The Internet giants acquiesced. More »
  
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  Internet • Verizon • Time Warner • child pornography • Sprint • Andrew Cuomo
- YouTube Punishment Fits YouTube Crime
  
  newser | Florida Today | Jun 9, 08 3:35 PM CDT
  
  A judge has ordered two teens to create and post an apology video on YouTube as punishment for a vicious prank, Florida Today reports. The boys were convicted of battery and criminal mischief after posting video of one of them throwing a soda back at a drive-thru fast-food server after yelling, “Fire in the hole.” More »
  
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  Internet • crime • YouTube • Florida • apology • prank • sentence
- Surfers Beware: Danger Could Lurk at .hk, .cn
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 4, 08 3:57 PM CDT
  
  A study by antivirus software firm McAfee warns Web surfers to be cautious of sites on certain domains, the AP reports, with corner-cutting registration companies often skipping security precautions. The domains .hk, .cn and .info were found to be riskiest. More »
  
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  Internet • fraud • website • identity theft • spam • web surfing • Internet fraud
- The 7 Types of Blog Posts
  
  newser | Wired | Jun 4, 08 1:51 PM CDT
  
  As vast as the Internet is, every blog post can be summed up into pretty much one of seven basic types, explains Lore Sjoberg in Wired: Be upset! "Terrible things are happening in one of the following: the world, the web, or a TV show you really like." Buy a thing! Screw mass media, let me post about the crappy gadget I must have and let's "shove advertising down each other's throats." Animals are cute! Though beware: "animals also includes babies and children younger than 8." More »
  
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  Internet • blogging • blogs • blog posts
- Big-Box Wal-Mart Dipping Into Free Online Classifieds
  
  newser | CNET | Jun 3, 08 2:58 PM CDT
  
  Wal-Mart is testing a new service, cNet reports: free online classified ads. The big-box retailer launched the site last week, in partnership with start-up Oodle.com, and offers more than 40 million listings, featuring seven categories, in major US cities. More »
  
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  Internet • Wal-Mart • Craigslist • classified ads
- Surprise, Webheads: Newspaper Sales Are Up
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 2, 08 8:00 PM CDT
  
  Newspaper circulation is up worldwide despite slipping numbers in the US and Europe, the AP reports. Officials at a worldwide newspaper conference said today that India and China are leading the 2.6% increase, thanks to higher literacy, incomes, and more leisure time. "They say newspapers and print are dead," one official said. "Well, I just don't see it." More »
  
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  Internet • newspaper • Associated Press • advertising sales • online newspapers • circulation
- Web Looks Different When You're Not Chained to Desk
  
  newser | BusinessWeek | Jun 1, 08 10:44 AM CDT
  
  Mobile web surfers are turning conventional wisdom on its head by traveling to a different constellation of sites than those visited from workday PCs, BusinessWeek reports. The “Weekend Web” relies not on Google, Yahoo, and MySpace, but rather on Craigslist, eBay, the Weather Channel and MapQuest—and don't think tech-industry and marketing giants aren't noticing. More »
  
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  Internet • Google • Yahoo • eBay • Craigslist • web surfing • mobile devices
May 2008
- Comcast Hackers: Company Dismissed Our Warning
  
  newser | Wired | May 30, 08 3:10 PM CDT
  
  Two teens who wrested control of Comcast’s homepage and webmail for 5 hours yesterday say they warned the company before the hijacking but were brushed off. In an interview with Wired , the two anonymous teens were triumphant about their assault on the ISP but expected to be arrested. “I wish I was a minor right now because this is going to be really bad,” said 19-year-old Defiant. More »
  
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  Internet • email • Comcast • hackers • high-tech security
- Facebook Readies User-Friendly Makeover
  
  newser | Forbes | May 29, 08 2:44 PM CDT
  
  Social-networking stalwart Facebook is redesigning its site to allow users easier access to an array of applications that might include search options, Forbes reports, and give advertisers more ways to reach the Facebook community. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, speaking at the All Things Digital conference, said the company hoped to work more with search giant Google. More »
  
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  Internet • Google • Facebook • social networking • online advertising • Mark Zuckerberg • Sheryl Sandberg
- For Internet Ministers, a Lark Becomes a Passion
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | May 26, 08 9:02 AM CDT
  
  It starts when friends asks you to officiate at their wedding, but it often doesn't end there. Many who become ministers with the click of a mouse—through the Universal Life Church or the Church of Spiritual Humanism—find themselves staying in the marriage business, the Chicago Tribune reports. Forging bonds becomes a pleasurable sideline—almost a ministry. More »
  
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  Internet • religion • marriage • wedding • minister
- WiFi Startup Wants to Share the Love
  
  newser | New York Times | May 25, 08 3:16 PM CDT
  
  WiFi hot spots should be anywhere and everywhere, says Martin Varsavsky. The 48-year-old Internet guru founded FON, a company that's built a WiFi network on members' shared wireless connections. Analysts say such global WiFi is only years away, but FON could still lose out; despite $55.2 million from giants like Google and BT, FON may fall to better-funded competitors. More »
  
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  Internet • Wi-Fi • WiMAX
- Google Guru Prods FCC Over Wi-Fi
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | May 23, 08 11:46 AM CDT
  
  Google co-founder Larry Page urged Congress and the FCC this week to open up access to unused television airwaves to broaden the reach of wireless Internet. Page asserted that the unused waves, called "white space," would increase Wi-Fi range in rural areas and help provide Internet capability to the entire country, reports the Wall Street Journal . More »
  
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  Internet • Google • FCC • Wi-Fi • wireless • Larry Page • airwaves • white space • Federal Communications Commission
- Online Social Networks Redefine 'Friends'
  
  newser | Washington Post | May 23, 08 11:00 AM CDT
  
  Online social networks such as Facebook and MySpace have altered the meaning of friendship, writes Steven Levy in The Washington Post . Instead of genuine chums, people are collecting hundreds and even thousands of friends without any real-world contact. When it comes to rejecting friend requests, "it's socially awkward, and very hard to draw the line," says one researcher. More »
  
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  Internet • Facebook • social networking • MySpace • online
- Google Readies Defense of Yahoo Ad Deal
  
  newser | New York Times | May 22, 08 9:35 AM CDT
  
  An advertising deal between Google and Yahoo is certain to stir the Justice Department’s antitrust division into action, no matter what the two do to address concerns, experts anticipating a partnership between the two Internet leaders tell the New York Times . Google says a deal would simply be a supply matter, with parallels in other industries. More »
  
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  Internet • Google • Yahoo • antitrust • competition • Eric Schmidt • search engine marketing
- YouTomb Knows Where the Videos Are Buried
  
  newser | Wired | May 21, 08 12:55 PM CDT
  
  When YouTube videos get taken down, YouTomb is watching. The new site, the brainchild of a group of MIT students, tracks every video removed from YouTube, along with who requested its removal. YouTomb doesn’t archive the videos—“We’re not interested in bootlegged videos of Naruto, ” says co-creator Dean Jansen—it’s interested solely in watching for fair use abuses. More »
  
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  Internet • Google • YouTube • copyright infringement
- New Game Plays Off Miley's Midriff
  
  newser | TMZ | May 20, 08 11:28 AM CDT
  
  Thinking of becoming a paparazzo? AddictingGames.com hosts an animated paparazzi game called Miley Naughty Pics, where the object of the game is to catch Miley Cyrus in varying degrees of undress, TMZ reports. You get “money” based on how much flesh you “snap” of the moving animated 15-year-old, and you lose if dad Billy Ray Cyrus gets into the frame. More »
  
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  Internet • paparazzi • Miley Cyrus • computer games

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