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November 2008
- In China, These Detectives Aren't for Hire
  
  Los Angeles Times | Nov 23, 08 6:28 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - If you do a bad thing in China, just hope it doesn't go online. The nation's so-called "human flesh engine"—millions of web-surfers who like hunting for facts—have already gotten a Communist Party secretary fired and identified a woman who stomped a cat to death. Despite an army of cybercops and pricey filtering software, the Communists have been unable to corral these online detectives, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »
- Gadgets Have Consumers Crying for Help
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Nov 17, 08 1:46 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Digital technology plays a key role in the lives of most Americans, but it's often too complex, frustrating, and prone to failure, a study by the Pew Research Center finds. Nearly half of consumers said they regularly need help setting up a device, learning how to use it, or solving problems, reports the San Francisco Chronicle . Among researchers' findings: More »
- Genome Research Helps Develop ... Search Engine
  
  Wired | Nov 12, 08 2:20 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Technology designed to sequence the human genome is now being turned to an equally daunting task: probing the depths of the web. DeepDyve, a search engine developed by Human Genome Project researchers, can base its search on up to 25,000 characters, Wired reports, which researchers say allows it to return results from the 99% of the web not indexed by Google. More »
- Web, Cable Topple Networks' Election Ratings
  
  NewTeeVee | Nov 5, 08 3:26 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - After proving itself indispensable in this year’s campaign, the internet won again on election night, Liz Gannes writes on NewTeeVee. Web users marked record traffic on several sites, while TV’s big three networks lost 16% off 2004 ratings, with cable and internet picking up the slack. During Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, video streaming sites recorded millions of global visitors; CNN.com and ABCNews.com set site records. More »
October 2008
- Virus Helps Violate 500K Bank, Credit Accounts
  
  BBC | Oct 31, 08 4:35 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A computer virus has stolen log-in information for over 500,000 bank accounts and credit and debit cards. The Sinowal Trojan virus has infected computers around the world through “drive-by downloads” that install it without users' knowledge when they visit Web sites running the virus code. Individuals can best protect themselves by being cautious about what sites they visit, the BBC reports. More »
- Obama: 'We've Got a Good Shot at This Thing'
  
  Chicago Tribune | Oct 30, 08 2:10 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama wrapped up his night of blitzing TV with an upbeat appearance on the Daily Show , the Chicago Tribune writes. "I think we've got a good shot at this thing," he told Jon Stewart last night, downplaying the chances of his race costing him the election. Pundits "have been saying that for a while but we’re still here," he said. "I don’t think white voters have gotten this memo about the Bradley effect." More »
- No, Blogging Isn't Dead
  
  Fast Company | Oct 23, 08 8:13 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A recent Wired magazine article argued that blogging is out, that mainstream media have taken the practice over, and one-time bloggers have moved on to social networking tools like Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. Not so, responds Allyson Kapin on Fast Company. Witness the 175,000 new blogs created daily and 570,000 posts a day. More »
- Brit Jumps Onto Twitter Bandwagon
  
  TechCrunch | Oct 20, 08 11:36 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The blogosphere is, ahem, atwitter over Britney Spears’ new Web site and micro-blogging account. The pop star promises to provide fans the inside scoop via britneyspears.com and Twitter, a social-networking site allows users to post constant updates. “I’d like to welcome Britney Spears to our world,” writes Michael Arrington at TechCrunch. More »
- Twitter Tries to Get Real, Trades In CEO
  
  CNET | Oct 17, 08 6:05 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Twitter has shunted CEO Jack Dorsey into the chairman's role and given his job to current chairman and co-founder Evan Williams, CNET reports. The micro-blogging site has grown fast since launching last year and has been surrounded by plenty of buzz—but while managers say things are right on track, it still lacks a working revenue model. More »
- Web Use Gives Brain a Boost
  
  BBC | Oct 14, 08 3:56 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sudoku not your thing? Web surfing may help boost brain power and prevent brain shrinkage in middle-aged and older people in a way that reading books cannot, the BBC reports. By studying the brain scans of volunteers aged 55 to 76, researchers found that experienced internet users show enhanced activity in the decision-making and complex reasoning regions of their brains when searching online. More »
- On Sports Exchange, 'Trade' Takes on New Meaning
  
  Reuters | Oct 6, 08 3:24 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Trading baseball cards with your friends is so 20th century. A new website allows sports fans to trade shares in athletes and even teams, effectively wagering real money on the performance of pro and college athletes, reports Reuters. "I see the marketplace being enormous," says an early investor in the website, OneSeason.com, which launched this week. More »
- Apple Bats Down Latest Jobs Death Rumor
  
  Bloomberg | Oct 3, 08 12:38 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Apple again today was forced to quash rumors about the health of CEO Steve Jobs, refuting a report that the CEO had suffered a “major heart attack,” Bloomberg reports. Shares fell as much as 5.4% following a post on CNN’s citizen-journalist iReport site, but have since rebounded. Jobs’ health has been an issue since a bout with pancreatic cancer in 2004. More »
- Child 'Climate Cops' a Bit Too Green
  
  Treehugger | Oct 2, 08 7:30 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A new website from British energy company Npower is encouraging children to spy on their parents—to save the environment, Mark Ontkush writes on Treehugger. After completing a series of “missions” on the Climate Cops site, kids are kitted out with the necessities for keeping careful tabs on the energy-consumption habits of local adults, and are encouraged to track the folks' “energy crimes.” More »
- Service Cuts Make AOL Even More Useless
  
  Silicon Alley Insider | Oct 1, 08 5:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - AOL is cutting two more of its website’s offerings, a blog creator and a data hosting service, Peter Kafka notes on Silicon Alley Insider. Users of AOL Journals, which hosts blogs, will be migrated to an equivalent host. Users of AOL Hometown, which mainly store photos—and, Kafka sniffs, is “as anachronistic as a dial-up ISP”—received a stiffer message: Save it elsewhere. More »
September 2008
- Investors Fund Big Digg Expansion
  
  IDG News Service | Sep 24, 08 6:20 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Social news site Digg has raised $28.7 million to fund an aggressive expansion and fend off rumors it will be sold, IDG News Service reports. The 4-year-old site, which allows readers to rank stories, plans to double its staff to 150, revamp its features, and expand internationally. The move is likely in response to Yahoo's launch of its own social news site, called Buzz. More »
- Paltrow Starts Lifestyle Website
  
  Huffington Post | Sep 23, 08 11:18 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - On top of co-hosting a PBS travel and cooking show, Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow has launched a lifestyle website called Goop.com, the Huffington Post reports. In an essay, Paltrow says she’ll share what she’s learned and the advice of her “sages” in the still-empty sections such as "Make," "Go," "Get," "Do," "Be," and "See." More »
- Pay-It-Forward Movement Finds Niche on Web
  
  Philadelphia Inquirer | Sep 19, 08 6:32 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Internet is home to a small but growing trend that would seem anathema to hard-headed bloggers and pithy posters who regularly lay waste to others online: niceness. In Philadelphia, New York, and elsewhere, the Inquirer finds, civic-minded netizens are setting up sites that extol, and even enable, random acts of kindness. More »
- Hey Dummy, Think Before You Post That Pic
  
  PC World | Sep 18, 08 10:18 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A picture may have been worth a thousand words before Facebook and YouTube came along, but in the Internet age the price can be much steeper for going public with one’s—er—privates. PC World presents 12 online photos that cost their owners dearly: “A defense attorney’s worse nightmare”: Two weeks after causing a serious crash while drunk driving, college student Joshua Lipton turned up at a Halloween party in an orange prison jumpsuit. When the pic made its Facebook debut, the judge awarded Lipton’s wit with a 2-year term. More »
- Social Networking Deposes Porn as Web King
  
  Reuters | Sep 16, 08 2:58 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Porn is no longer king online, thanks to the social-networking sites where people—particularly 18- to 24-year-olds—have become addicted to less X-rated forms of sharing, a Web analyst tells Reuters. “My theory is that young users spend so much time on social networks that they don't have time to look at adult sites,” says Bill Tancer, who studies Web clicks to take our societal pulse. More »
- AOL Brings in Outside Help With Homepage Redesign
  
  paidContent.org | Sep 10, 08 1:50 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - AOL is overhauling its portal page, incorporating third-party email services and social-networking sites into AOL.com, paidContent reports. The redesigned site allows users to perform global status updates, so a message sent from AOL would show up on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and more; users will also be able to view friends’ activity from multiple sites on an incorporated feed. More »

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This undated photo released by the Walter Arts Museum shows a 1982 schematic of the first Internet, which then consisted of only 88 computers, linked as shown in this diagram-like map titled

This undated photo released by the Walter Arts Museum shows a 1982 schematic of the first Internet, which then consisted of only 88 computers, linked as shown in this diagram-like map titled "Joyce Reynolds,... (AP Photo)

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