The unusual move comes as several U.S. cities elbow for a spot in Google's new "Fiber for Communities" program. The Web giant is going to install new Internet connections in unannounced locations, giving those communities Internet speeds 100 times faster than those elsewhere, with data transfer rates faster than 1 gigabit per second.
Google declined to comment on whether it's taking the whole "Google, Kansas" thing seriously.
Courtney Love was recently sued for a tweet in which she made negative comments about a fashion designer. How liable are people for twitter posts? Is this free speech?
Hundreds of universities, and a growing number of business schools, are making recordings of lectures, seminars and conferences available to the general public via Web sites such as iTunes and YouTube.