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Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: Research In Motion Eyes a Rebound "They've been caught flat-footed," said Jean-Louis Gassée, a former Apple executive, the former chairman of Palm's software spinoff and a partner at Allegis Capital in Palo Alto, Calif. "They've built a tremendous company; ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: Fake Salem Song Teaches Internet A Lesson It'll Probably Forget Pretty Soon Yesterday the Internet lit up for a bit with news of a new track from the draggy, divisive outfit Salem. "Nite Daze," according to the email blasting it around the Internet, was "all about ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: Voicemail, an Obituary Do not leave me a voicemail. I will not listen to it. I'm going to press the corresponding number to delete your message as soon as the automated voice recording concludes. I'm going to press it with conviction, like a little boy who just won ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: Tumblr's Mark Coatney Tired of Sites that Disrespect Commenters If you look at most websites the commenting page is down way at the bottom after all the links to other stories and the ads and other stuff. Down way at the bottom is this little tiny box with a tiny ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: Photojournalism in the Age of New Media While verification can be a minor obstacle for photojournalists using social media as a resource, it lies at the heart of the ethical and aesthetic issues of crisis reporting The Asymmetrical Online War Life invariably ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: In Praise of Distraction The catch is that plenty of new research suggests that forcing Internet-addicted employees to go cold turkey may make them less productive, not more. Tron Legacy I take representing digital culture in film very seriously in lieu of having ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: Roger Ebert: 'Source Code' Review What we have here, setting aside the fancy editing involving the time travel, is something that looks like hard science fiction. That's a threatened genre. Movies with plots are threatened in general; much modern "science fiction" ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: So, then...if you jump The New York Times' paywall, are you stealing? It's familiar logic - the same kind of analog-economics-for-digital-content thinking that fuels all those "People! Don't you realize that X months of The New York Times is just X Starbucks lattes?" ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: Get Smart (subscription required) We have been outsourcing our intelligence to machines for centuries. Now they are much quicker at calculation and infinitely more adept at memory than we have ever been. And so now we decide that memory and calculation are not really ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: The History of the Teardown: The Need to See Our Gear Undressed In the case of the Kinect, there was also an element of history involved. Wiens and the iFixit team tend to look at designers and engineers almost the same way other people look at bands or film ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: When Twittering Gets in the Way of Real Life One evening this week, my husband and I had a discussion that mirrors others we've had over the past few years. "Sometimes, it's like you're here and you're not here," Joe said to me. "Your mind and soul are in cyberspace, ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: How did a British polytechnic graduate become the design genius behind £200billion Apple? Ive's lab is Apple's inner sanctum. Here, touch screens control the glass-sided machines in which new products take form. Desks are bare bar the aluminium sheets that ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: 5 1/2 Questions for Bnter's Lauren Leto Facebook is too stagnant to convey anyone's personality and as users start to realize how much richer their network is through sites which focus on genuine representation, they'll drift away. Satellite Art: One Woman Tries to ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: A message to you, Larry Yes, it would be nice to share Google's view of itself as a selfless, righteous defender of the public's right to unbridled creativity, but the fact that the company just grabbed a frivolous patent on the use of logo doodles makes it clear that ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Read: 4chan's Chaos Theory Through the sheer force of its numbers, 4chan has somehow managed to establish the Internet's top memes-some of which are as important to the American consciousness at this point as Hollywood movies, and they've done it over and over. The Wu ...