Is the internet destroying your concentration?Even if you don’t click on a hyperlink, the neurons in your brain light up and think about whether or not you should click on it, writes W H Chong.
The Internet
The internet is making us stupid
Multiple screens open, numerous media devices, tweeting while watching TV and searching online: the electronic flood of information is drowning us and destroying our ability to concentrate.
The oldest .com domain names
An interesting list of the 100 oldest registered domain names, starting way back in March 1987. See which companies were first to jump on board the world wide web.
Support the arts, buy a writer a beer
Being creative and earning a viable income aren’t always two things that go together. But the internet is helping to bridge the gap, turning artists into entrepreneurs by flogging their goods online, writes Marcus Westbury.
Why the internet doesn’t need bouncers or door bitches
It’s not easy being an academic at a conference about internet memes, but Ethan Zuckerman did it and explains the higher purpose of memes. Can we get more memes to cross cultural divides?
Cable broadband: the real challenger to the NBN
Cable broadband networks are moving to deploy fibre-to-the-premise for new network builds, writes Dermot Cox.
Second Life starts to grow again
Just when you thought virtual world Second Life was sooo 2007, user numbers have been on the rise again.
Time to start paying for online news?
A new venture called Journalism Online will offer a one-stop subscription site for access to multiple online newspapers and magazines. But will the punters pay?
Domino’s Pizza posts apology video
Domino’s Pizza have created an online video of their own after a clip of two employees defiling food went viral and caused a PR disaster.
Five broadband myths busted
The Rudd Government’s proposed fibre to the premises (FTTP) broadband network has generated a rich variety of ill-informed media commentary. It is time to debunk some of these myths, writes Rod Tucker.
Fairfax hurts itself by holding out on link love
Fairfax seems to prefer to treat its readers a bit like a jealous man who tries to stop his girlfriend from meeting other men in the hope that this will protect the relationship, writes Tim Burrowes.
Rundle: Henderson’s Media Watch Dog. Epic fail.
Guy Rundle rips apart Gerard Henderson’s new project: Media Watch Dog.
The Internet is a mirror of society, hatebloggers and all
Most of the problems with Internet culture reflect deeper social issues — and that’s where we need to look to understand why the net hasn’t fulfilled its astonishing potential, writes Jeff Sparrow.
The digital divide holding back disadvantaged kids
Children whose parents do not have a computer, or cable TV or a DVD player, or cannot afford monthly internet service bills will be at a serious disadvantage in the future, Drs Patricia and Don Edgar write.
The Internet’s feral goldfish get it very wrong
Last night Australian time, the geekiest parts of the blogosphere were all aflutter, writes Crikey’s geek in residence, Stilgherrian.
Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks
Meaty snippets from the home of government by Richard Farmer.
@KevinRuddPM stumbles into the Twitterverse
By mid-evening, KevinRuddPM had more than 700 followers. Those hanging out for a response eagerly devoured the second Prime Ministerial tweet, writes Stilgherrian.
ISP filtering: who’s exploiting the kids?
The elevation of children as the justification for censorship will make this campaign harder to stop, writes Bernard Keane.
And the Wankley Award goes to … Conroy’s net filtering scheme
Won’t someone think of the adults? Australia’s march to a Chinese censorship regime took a interesting turn this week when new details emerged on the Rudd Government’s Great Firewall of Australia internet filtering scheme, writes Duncan Riley.
Google’s Chrome browser blows Microsoft out of the water
Whatever Google hopes Chrome will achieve, the benefits to Google – and there will be plenty – are probably less obvious than the benefits to users, writes Antigeek.
ABC rural sells content, just don’t tell the journos
It’s not ABC Rural Online, but visitors to EFarming.com could be forgiven for mistaking it so, including the ABC’s own journos, writes Calli Weitenberg.
Internet filters a success, if success = failure
When it comes to internet filters, there’s bad news and not quite so bad news. But you won’t hear Senator Conroy say that out loud, writes Stilgherrian.
