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This article highlights Iran's response to reports like the one found at Ars Technica that I posted earlier today. "Iran has denied online reports surfacing Tuesday that it plans to cut access to the Internet in August and replace it with a national intranet, according to a statement by the ministry of communication and information technology." But, according to the article, Iran "...does have plans to establish a 'national information network' billed as a totally closed system that would function like a sort of intranet for the Islamic republic."

Talk on the behind-the-scenes filtering that goes on of your individual internet experience.

Grant given to Oxford and Vatican libraries to start digitizing ancient texts including: scan of original Gutenberg bible, ancient Hebrew texts, and Greek philosophy texts.

What do content writers do? A little bit of this, a little bit of that...

Coming to terms with this. I'm not sure if this is terrifying or kind of cool. Klout allows you to measure your 'online influence.'

A nice breakdown between Facebook and, my favorite online space, Tumblr.

A list of the heavy open-source hitters for audio playback and editing.

Sound cloud looks really interesting, but they host all of the content and you just send out links to share it. In order to play content on your page, you need a mess of java script commands and I have no idea how to link that to your content... Guess that's why all the bands pay big bucks to have someone build their site for them.

Alright. Thanks, Ben.

Self explanatory title tracing the history of online spaces through its inception in a mass scale political context.

Fascinating recent plagiarism case from the New Yorker. Spy novel written by author who was "undercover" in the sense that he was secretly writing everything with passages lifted from other novels. 

Keeping track of passwords is definitely a hassle for most of us, so a service that groups all of them didn't seem far off. It will be interesting to see how this develops, and if it will catch on and be secure.

Careful who you de-friend! I was interested in any news around the changing of language based on our use of technology - things like using "Google" or "Wiki" as verbs, for example - and thought of "friending." When I Googled this and looked at News, there were several stories to this effect!

While sites like Facebook and Google seem to be taking over the world, it would be nice to be able to eliminate some of the sites we all are constantly having to check or update or interact on or remember logins and passwords for! Just think: no more Blackboard, you're already on Facebook all the time-why not post for class while you're there? :-)

A few rhetorical strategies.

This is an article that discusses the views of professional historians regarding wikipedia. I think it makes a number of interesting claims both regarding the management or historical data and wikipedia's role in promoting a particular historical paradigm.

Questions of names and online identity come up in this article, which talks about how Google Plus has changed its policy of requiring people to use their real names when registering for accounts.

I thought this was an interesting article after looking at the corpus last week that used books online. There is great discussion of how computers and machines will enable us to look at literary texts in entirely new ways.

Interesting in terms of McLuhan and discussions last class.

Red Hat, the world's largest, most successful open source software company and one I'd like to work for in the very near future, submitted this blog post last month about SOPA and PIPA. It explains how such bills could devastate online collaboration, innovation, and the sharing of ideas and technology.

This is an online summary of Roland Barthes's "From Work to Text", which you can skim as you read Hayles's article.

My new favorite Firefox add on that combats all the new privacy stuff unearthed about the big internet titans.