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internet Archive
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not really reading
Posted on September 21, 2008 | No CommentsMark Bauerlein has an article on the difficulty of slow reading online. In the eye-tracking test, only one in six subjects read Web pages linearly, sentence by sentence. The rest... -
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Posted on June 12, 2008 | No CommentsIn the July Atlantic’s cover story, Nick Carr has an interesting and provocative article about the effects of Google and other Internet technologies on our cognitive processes. The Internet promises... -
How People Get Caught File Sharing Songs
Posted on June 10, 2008 | No CommentsA peek behind the scenes of RIAA’s anti-piracy efforts from the New Zealand Herald: To root out illegal file-sharing activity, the RIAA works with Maryland-based MediaSentry, which has developed customized... -
Amazon Is Down
Posted on June 6, 2008 | No CommentsWhat has the world come to? Amazon is spitting out an error message currently, and it’s been going on for at least a few minutes now. Some systems administrators over... -
FBI Wants to Monitor All Internet Traffic
Posted on April 26, 2008 | 1 CommentIn Congressional testimony on Wednesday, FBI Directory Robert Mueller said that FBI surveillance of the Internet should be done “whether it be .mil, .gov, .com–whichever network you’re talking about.” Two...
