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Big Cable’s Internet Rip-Off

You'll have to excuse me--I'm a little tired, having stayed up all night watching episodes of Lost online. I've… more

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Another Bush Intelligence Failure

Add to the list of President George W. Bush's failures his inability to straighten out what he regarded as… more

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Building A Broadband Bridge that Holds Weight

Jay Foushee has called his local phone company in rural Roxboro, N.C., numerous times to plead for high-speed Internet… more

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The Future of Transit

Public transportation needs massive investment. Will the Obama administration step up?

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War Without Warriors

Robots have the perverse side effect of making war seem easy.

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Our Town vs. Exxon

Marine biologist Riki Ott explains how Cordova, Alaska, rebounded 20 years after the oil spill.

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Attack of the Killer Robots

The Pentagon’s dream of a techno army is doomed to fail.

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Green Jobs for Whom?

Obama must ensure that the green economy provides a living wage and opportunity for all.

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The Truth Machine

Detecting lies or setting the stage for abuse?

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Offline Youth Struggle in Online World

Antonio Reyes and Julian Rosas grew up together in California's San Fernando Valley. Now 17 and seniors in high… more

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Millions of Americans Still Crawling With Dial-Up

Brian Beaudet lives in what's locally called a "holler" in rural Marshall, N.C. "It's very secluded but my family… more

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Don’t Tase Me, GOP!

The St. Paul Police Department is arming itself with Tasers. Local activists and media say that the department ordered… more

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Bad Days for Newsrooms — and Democracy

The decline of newspapers is not about the replacement of the antiquated technology of newsprint with the lightning speed… more

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What’s So ‘Free’ About Philly’s New Wi-Fi Plan?

Without a computer and the knowledge to get online wirelessly, "free Wi-Fi" isn't truly free and accessible. Offering the… more

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Save the Dramatic Chipmunk

When college kids make mashups of Hollywood movies, do they violate the law? Not necessarily, according to a study… more

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RoboCop in Iraq

In the next five years, according to DefenseLink, the Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion on robots, breaking the monopoly of human soldiers in an army

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Bike-Sharing Is Caring

Bike-sharing programs that provide cheap access to inner-city bicycles are popular all over Europe, and Beijing, and even American cities are catching on

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Rocking Lolita in Tehran

Iran's underground music scene has more followers than ever, largely because Iranian musicians are performing on a new stage: the Internet

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iPower to the People

The perils and promise of point-and-click politics

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Kids LOL @ Navy Recruiters

Millennials, explained Arthur Mitchell, director of strategic planning for the Navy's Accelerate Your Life campaign, are "narcissistic praise junkies" and "a somewhat alien life force"

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R.I.P. LiP

Amidst the demise of Clamor, Punk Planet, Satya and LiP, Tipping the Sacred Cow: The Best of LiP reads like a super-special edition--complete with illustrations, a "theft ethics" quiz, a glossary of culture-jamming lingo and other useful appendices

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Training Satellites on the United States

Homeland Security plans to share spy satellite data with domestic agencies

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Blogs Up, Hacks Down

The appearance of seven Democratic presidential contenders at the YearlyKos convention demonstrated that the Kossacks and fellow A-listers--along with what the Liberal Blog Advertising Network calls their 3 million daily readers--are now ensconced as political players

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The Great Spectrum Giveaway

This October might be the last chance for local community radio stations to receive high-power licenses from the FCC.

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In the Crosshairs

Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal invited people to shoot him, and got all too many takers

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Hello, I’m a Democrat

Meet the netroots activists who have moved online and into political office

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Digital Revives the Indie Pop Star

In this new age of satellite radio and personalized playlists, only 35 percent of 18-to-34-year-olds are turning to the… more

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Not Neutrality

Why are the Communications Workers of America opting out of the Save the Internet coalition?

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In You More Than Yourself

The revolutionary potential of the Internet is far from self-evident

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CT Scans: A Radioactive Risk

Terry J. Allen argues that CT scans, while effective diagnostic tools, can be dangerous because of the high levels of radiation to which they expose patients.

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YouTube in MeWorld

According to Anthropologist Thomas de Zengotita, Websites like MySpace and YouTube encourage socializing and self adolation.

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Information Highway Robbers

What makes the Internet revolutionary is that it is democratic, open to anyone with a computer and an Internet… more

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Dear Postindustrial Capitalism

Can I resign as the CEO of Brand Me, Inc? While profits and productivity are up, and product recognition… more

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Barbarians at the Helm

First they ignore you," opens Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga's new book Crashing the Gates, "then they laugh… more

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Can Blogs Revolutionize Progressive Politics?

We have no interest in being anti-establishment," says Matt Stoller, a blogger at the popular Web site MyDD.com. "We're… more

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Opening the Lines

While federal communications flopped, a small band of wireless technicians helped Katrina victims reconnect with the world

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The Whiteness of Wi-Fi

W.E.B. DuBois wrote at a time of breathtaking social change, a time not unlike our own. The black social… more

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Split Decision on File-Sharing

Grokster may be a goner, but swapping is here to stay

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Network Neutrality Now

As "open access" dies, a new battle begins

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Broadband Internet: Unhappily Ever After?

Few people blink these days when some Chicken Little somewhere announces that the virtual sky is falling. The Internet… more

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