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This article describes people becoming less connected to communities becuase of technology usage.

Here is an interesting article on how people are becoming less connected to communities becuase of technology usage.

Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is "going dark" as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone.

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.

List of top 10 tools for learning - compiled by learning professionals

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

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

"/7/11 FCC Promotes Robust, Affordable Broadband by Reducing Costs & Delays in Access to Infrastructure. News Release: Word | Acrobat Order (FCC 11-50): Word | Acrobat NOI (FCC 11-51): Word | Acrobat Genachowski Statement: Word | Acrobat Copps Statement: Word | Acrobat McDowell Statement: Word | Acrobat Clyburn Statement: Word | Acrobat Baker Statement: Word | Acrobat"

Here is an article on how the FCC discusses the best way to attach devices to poles for the "Broadband Across America Project."

In our discusssion of print vs Internet, this article from April 21, 2011 Wall Street Journal brings up the fact that not just news is affected by this. Large publishing houses are being by-passed in favor of self-published titles. The article states that 15 of the top 50 digital best-sellers at Amazon are those priced at $5 or less.

The Wall Street Journal published this article by Amy Marcus on Monday, April 25, 2011. by connecting patients who are suffering from ALS on Facebook, they are able to share information on treatments that work and those that do not. This particular study had to do with lithium.

"A plan proposed by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., called the "Main Street Fairness Act," would create a national law that forces online retailers to start collecting sales taxes on purchases made over the Internet. Amounts will be based on each state's already existing sales tax rates."

Here is an article on how the "Internet Sales Tax Could Go National."

"business-to-consumer and business-to-business commerce conducted by way of the Internet or other electronic networks. E-commerce originated in a standard for the exchange of documents during the 1948 - 49 Berlin blockade and airlift. Various industries elaborated upon the system until the first general standard was published in 1975. The electronic data interchange (EDI) standard is unambiguous, independent of any particular machine, and flexible enough to handle most simple electronic transactions. In addition to standard forms for business-to-business transactions, e-commerce encompasses much wider activity - for example, the deployment of secure private networks (intranets) for sharing information within a company, as well as selective extensions of a company's intranet to collaborating business networks (extranets). A new form of cooperation known as a virtual company, actually a network of firms, each performing some of the processes needed to manufacture a product or deliver a service, has flourished"

Here is Answer.com information on E-commerce.

One way that some have tried to deal with piracy is by suing large groups of people that are sharing a file, rather than sue individual people. The problem is that there is a debate on whether it is alright to clump these people into a single case. This article shows that some attorneys have ruled that you may not lump multiple file sharers into a single case, while others have ruled this practice to be fine.

Looks like Netflix is expanding by offering original content through their service. This will make them even more competitive with cable TV.

A start at the understanding of the varying use of the internet by race.

I found this site a few months ago when we discussing this topic. I found it very interesting that there is still a gap between the different races. In reading what the Pew team found and what this one did, it was very interesting.

Want to get rid of your facebook account? Here is a step by step howto on closing your account.

Craig's List finally decides to reel in erotic ads. Adults will now be reviewing them with some guidelines.

Texting and driving

Government stimulus attempt to bring broadband access to rural areas that have limited or no high speed internet access.