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MAIL MADE EASY
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Referred to collectively as Web 2.0., the new technologies are drawing a fresh influx of dollars to the Net.
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Yahoo started with a set of Web communications tools and added news feeds. While traditional news organizations may turn up their noses at such commodity content, it's wildly popular with tens of millions of users who simply want to know what's going on in the world on a constant basis.
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Top stories are selected according to user patterns, not by editors. Users even get to keep 90% of the ad revenue that their home pages generate.
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Governments, on the other hand, usually lag behind and are forced to catch up.
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But this leaves governments vulnerable in many ways and thus, it can be said that generally speaking, information technology has a negative impact on governments.
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governments are not leaders in technology
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Everyone's business and personal activities are available online. And while this trend is affecting the ability of individuals to obtain jobs or entry into excellent schools, it is also adversely affecting the government. Conversations, actions, decisions and motives are being played out on the internet in emails, social networking sites, videos and personal blogs. Government officials and employees can no longer hide in a shroud of secrecy
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Enriching the lives of the poor in developing nations can be achieved through the use of modern day technologies such as medical treatment databases, cell phones to improve livelihoods, and computers to enable ability the citizens to compete for online jobs in the global market. Governments can become closer to its people through the use of information technology and communications, thereby increasing efficiency and helping to make their lives better.
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we found ourselves editing and revising copy that had come from a variety of platforms, through at least a dozen delivery methods.
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made it easier for us to manage contacts while we were on the road and acted as a depository for story ideas. The fax machine was kept working at home and in the office, receiving story pitches, copy, designs, individualized newspapers, more copy, sketches, takeout menus, and ever more copy.
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Without E-mail, half of what you'll read in these pages would not have materialized. Copy changed hands via every commercial on-line service you can imagine, as well as through a plethora of Internet sites.
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More and more is expected of us as the speed with which we can communicate ideas to our readers increases.
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The answer, in the peer-reviewed study of the online habits of girls ages 8 to 12, is that those who say they spend considerable amounts of time using multimedia describe themselves in ways that suggest they are less happy and less socially comfortable than peers who say they spend less time on screens.
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But the researchers hypothesize that heavy use of media is a contributing factor to the social challenges of girls.
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Ah, yes, the key is "censorship is required." It's only too apparent that this notion of national censorship on a country-by-country basis will eventually lead to a completely censored and dumbed-down Internet, which will only be useful for approved shopping, Twitter, and Facebook.
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where content must be censored to protect the hopeless public from getting too alarmed by the crazy information found on the Web
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The government, some academics, and the police would be able to access the international net. The dark net would form and it would bring us back to a pre-Google and pre-Alta Vista, even a pre-Yahoo, era.
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