On the Internet, huge numbers are typical. Just search for anything on Google, and be rewarded with a “1 to 10 of 36 million results for...” or something similar. We’re used to massive numbers for participation: ebay, Paypal, MySpace, and so forth. Lately however, Facebook has been in the news,...

I admit I’ve been in a cave for the past decade or so – but remember when Open Source was the greatest thing since sliced bread? Collaborative software and the philosophy that “to enough eyes, all bugs are small”. It sounded so good, and the future was so bright. What...

Today my wife showed me a cartoon that was making the rounds, and promoting a lot of controversy. For those of you not aware, the New York Post published this – and a lot of people are offended by what they perceive as racist (and possibly president-threatening) “art”. However, of...

In an interview Monday, Larry Hryb, Chief Programmer of Xbox Live at Microsoft, announced that the problems being experienced from hackers with the online gaming platform Xbox Live were really the fault of the Internet. While declining to explain specifically what part the Internet played in the failure, he assured...

Jason Lee Miller wrote a thought-provoking article on Google this weekend. In it, he highlights some of the less than savory things Google has been involved in, such as siding with Chinese government for business reasons, supporting Youtube and Google Book Search and their copyright infringements, and Google Japan paying...