DRP 2010

With all the hoopla over the Facebook's $50 million acquisition of FriendFeed today, it'd be nice to see how it actually went down. ...

Two e-book readers due in late August aim to close Sony's sales gap with Amazon, whose Kindle continues to sizzle. Again, interesting in light of Thompson article.

Popular social-networking site Facebook was hit with a DoS (denial-of-service) attack Thursday, but the attack did not appear to be as severe as one that crippled Twitter the same day.

The ABC is to play host to a conference that claims to be "the first Australian Twitter conference".

As Germany heads into national elections, established political parties are trying to appeal to Web-savvy voters using Facebook and Twitter. But their Internet policies are alienating bloggers and activists, who are using the medium to protest against the political mainstream.

Two Vermont statisticians are analyzing Twitter's river of messages to monitor the public's changing moods and what affects them.

Twitter sues Australian developer

The beautiful background images on Bing's homepage have been one of the primary differentiating factor's from GoogleGoogle's search homepage since day one.

Websites are giving people news to find and enjoy music. However, it is hard for the music industry to deal with those illegal download sites.

Short video of McLuhan and the theory of Medium is the message

Digital authors don't have to wait for the publishing industry anymore.

This morning, the Wall Street Journal features an article about professional blogging. Mark Penn, the article's author, even cites some of our own numbers, though the most astonishing number he arrives at is that America is now home to over 452,000 professional bloggers who use blogging as their primary source of income. If these numbers are indeed true, then that would mean that there are now almost as many bloggers in the U.S. as lawyers (550,000). We do, however, have our doubts.

Excellent documentary on direct participation in government through new communication technologies. Can we all govern or is the very notion simply absurd?

6 New Personality Disorders Caused by the Internet