Agence France Presse AlterNet: Media and TechnologyOctober 30, 2009. Technology and media stars, pundits and entrepreneurs joined the Internet's father to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his culture-changing child.
Lauren, Feministe AlterNet: PEEK. October 5, 2009. A consumer behavior analysis firm says new research confirms that digital migration happens primarily along class lines.
danah boyd, AlterNet. September 3, 2009. The inequalities and divisions in society have emerged online in social networks despite the belief that everyone is connected by the Internet.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. August 26, 2009. One commenter: "Now if we could just talk God into taking Arlin Spector, Harry Reid,and Nancy Pelosi America would be Eutopia!"
Agence France Presse August 6, 2009. Hackers knocked wildly popular micro-blogging site Twitter offline for several hours Thursday with a malicious cyber-attack on its systems, according to the company's founder.
ZP Heller, Brave New Foundation AlterNet: Video. July 9, 2009. Cole and HuffPo's Nico Pitney discuss how the Obama administration must engage the Iranian regime.
Don Tapscott, Edge. June 17, 2009. There is a huge clash between the model of learning offered by big universities and the natural way that young people who have grown up digital learn.
Deanna Zandt, DeannaZandt.com AlterNet: World. June 15, 2009. It's less about celebrity and more about connection, humanity and the ability to inject values into the wider culture in a populist way.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. June 10, 2009. Exposing the latest and slimiest ways the "financial services" industry is raking it in from cash-crunched Americans.
Annalee Newitz, io9. June 1, 2009. You heard it here first: The next evolution of identity management in the U.S. will grow out of Facebook. So watch what you out in your profile.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 8, 2009. Young Moldovans used the online tools to stay ahead of the government and keep the rest of the world apprised of the situation.
Kari Henley, Huffington Post. March 30, 2009. The ease of creating virtual friendships teaches us that what we crave aren't just cyber connections, but meaningful connections.
Matt, Philalethistimania. March 17, 2009. The Facebook staff really have no idea what they are doing, where they are taking the site, and what branding means.
Judith Levine, The American Prospect. February 7, 2009. Sex and predatory adults are not the biggest dangers teenagers face online. Their main risk is garden-variety kid-on-kid meanness.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. February 5, 2009. Clinton to visa applicants: "You should know that the State Department is on the watch here for Facebook."
Rory O'Connor, RoryOConnor.org. January 20, 2009. The rise of Facebook and Twitter herald changes for journalism, and pose serious challenges to about journalistic credibility and trust.
Dr. Logan Levkoff, Huffington Post. January 17, 2009. For years, women were led to believe that being a girlfriend or wife was a special achievement. Facebook may be bringing that mentality back.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. January 13, 2009. A new report might make it a harder for conservatives and savvy politicians to profit by needlessly stoking parental fears about online predators.