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?

Bing has announced that it will be using Wolfram Alpha data in its results.

A discussion of whether CNN should be paying attention to Twitter comments.

Interesting report on browser vulnerabilities. This report shows Firefox, followed by Safari being the most vulnerable browsers.

Computer hackers cause massive power outage in Brazil. US vulnerable to same type of attack?

An issue that has come to light recently is that some people may have been framed for having child pornography by viruses that downloaded the content. Yet another reason to make sure you don't get viruses!

After a teen was beaten to death in a boot camp for treating internet addiction, China has banned physical punishment for the offense.

Facebook is planning on preserving accounts of deceased members.

A humorous contest in which people were asked to photoshop an image showing what things would look like if the internet was shut down.

AT&T & Google have differing views over net neutrality

FCC working on new net neutrality legislation

White-space is an addition to wifi which greatly increases bandwidth and range.

Candian legislative body outlines rules for ISP performing route management (preferential service to certain providers/sites).

Comic about Google. Again, not scholarly material, but...

Facebook/Myspace usage divided among socio-economic lines

Article about the influence of social networking peers toward things you might not think about (such as obesity).

Remake of Star Wars (A New Hope) created by fans. Each fan creates a 15 second clip (however they want) and they're put together into a movie. Interesting example of massive internet collaboration.

Not exactly an authoritative source, but a funny commentary on social networking...