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SOPA: Has It Returned?

In what's being called a "SOPA-style blackout," an Indian court has demanded that the subcontinent's internet service providers ban 104 websites said to feature "unauthorized" media -- bolstering similar efforts in the U.S. and the rest of the world. Chris Dodd, chair and CEO of the Motion Pictur ... More >>

Al Qaeda Wants to Be Your Friend on Facebook

According to a recent study from the University of Haifa, your latest friend request on Facebook may be from a terrorist organization, for, like the rest of us, they have shifted their Internet activity focus to...social networks, obvi! "Today, about 90% of organized terrorism on the Internet is bei ... More >>

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UPDATE: Radiohead Not Playing A "Surprise" Occupy Wall Street Show At 4 This Afternoon

So sayeth the official web site of the downtown occupation. Is it a surprise show if it's announced ahead of time? (Not really!) Do you think they'll break out "Creep" from the archives and tweak the lyrics? "No, you're the creep, you fatcats!" (Probably not!) Should you probably start heading down ... More >>

Glenn Beck Moving to the Internet; Arianna Huffington Pissing Off New AOL Team

​After some unsuccessful press jockeying on both sides, negotiations between Fox News and their cash cow-turned-credibility sucker Glenn Beck pretty much disintegrated and so they worked together on his exit from the channel. Now it's time for him to ride his intensely angry, loyal and crazy m ... More >>

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The Royal Wedding Website Is Here! The Royal Wedding Website Is Here!

Shiny, happy royals.​Almost as thrilling as those two glorious brunettes with the funny accents whom we don't even know (personally) getting hitched in some famous abbey far across that large body of water that separates us Americans from a whole shit-ton of tea is today's news that THE ROYAL ... More >>

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Facebook Is Down, God Help: What to Do Instead

This guy.​You may not have noticed if you don't regularly update your social media constituents as to whether you're "eating a sandwich," or "sooooo tired right now," but Facebook is down. On the same day that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his donation of $100 million to Newark school ... More >>

Germany Plans to Turn a Blind Eye to Job Applicants' Facebook Antics

If you're in Germany, you may soon get a job even with Facebook photos like this.​Tuesday, the German government proposed a law that places restrictions on employers' uses of Facebook to protect workplace privacy. But the law, a nice gesture of respect for future employees, ignores Facebook's exis ... More >>

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If you're in Germany, you may soon get a job even with Facebook photos like this.​Tuesday, the German government proposed a law that places restrictions on employers' uses of Facebook to protect workplace privacy. But the law, a nice gesture of respect for future employees, ignores Facebook's exis ... More >>

Cuomo Announces Removal of Sex Offenders from Social Networking Sites, Warns Others

Having gotten MySpace and Facebook to remove 3,533 members with a record of sexual predation in 2009, attorney general Andrew Cuomo has facilitated another sweep of other social networking sites and gotten 803 other registered sex offenders removed from their buddy lists. The newly-scrubbed sites ... More >>

Follow the Fooderati on Gastrobuzz

Josh Friedland, who runs the blog The Food Section, has introduced a new website called Gastrobuzz that tracks the tweets of the food world. Follow the twitterings of hundreds of chefs, food writers and bloggers, and other culinary personalities in one place by visiting the site or following @Gastro ... More >>

OMG Are You Ready For the Michael Jackson Memorial?

The Staples Center mayhem -- allegedly featuring the remains of the deceased -- is just hours away! The New York Post does some fine journalistic double-dipping, proclaiming "JACKO GHOULS EYE PROFITS OF DOOM" while announcing you can watch the memorial on their web site! Charles Foster Kane would ... More >>

New Rye Rye Video, Directed By M.I.A.: "Bang"

Sometime NYC-resident M.I.A. makes her directing debut with the video to Rye Rye's "Bang"--it's a suitably epileptic video for a pretty epileptic song, plus it's got tons of dancing, and lately, that's all anybody wants to look at again, right? Also, apparently this song played over the credits of ... More >>

Another Indie Label Goes the Totally Free Route

Magic Bullet, the erstwhile Virginia hardcore label and early home to bands like Cave In, Frodus, and Boy Sets Fire, recently announced a partnership with the online music start-up GimmeSound to give a large part of their catalogue away, for free:

China Blocks Twitter, Other Web 2.0 Stuff, As Part of Post-Freedom Internet Boom

As we approach the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising, China is apparently blocking Twitter -- and maybe also "Blogger, Flickr... Livejournal, Tumblr, the Huffington Post and Microsoft's Live.com, Hotmail, its MSN Space blog tool and its new search engine Bing," says Fox News. Whew -- ... More >>

Benedikt v. Roiphe: Is Your Facebook Profile Enforcing the Patriarchy?

Have you been reading Double X? It's Slate's recently-launched lady web site founded by three smart women, one whose bio proclaims that she "got her start in journalism at the New Republic writing contrarian essays." Last week Double X published Katie Roiphe's desperate cry for relevance, "Get Yo ... More >>

Craigslist CEO Calls His Adult Services Plan "Fully Baked"

Other attorneys general were satisfied when Craigslist nixed its much maligned Erotic Services section for a closely monitored Adult Services section. But New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo remains miffed with the Web site. "Several weeks ago, we informed Craigslist of an impending criminal c ... More >>

Letters: May 13

Other attorneys general were satisfied when Craigslist nixed its much maligned Erotic Services section for a closely monitored Adult Services section. But New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo remains miffed with the Web site. "Several weeks ago, we informed Craigslist of an impending criminal c ... More >>

Craigslist Drops Prostitute Ads; Twitter Picks Up the Slack

A couple of deranged killers have spoiled it for everybody: Craigslist is dropping its Erotic Services category. The Illinois attorney general's office announced that Craigslist will create an adult category which its employees will monitor for prostitution or pornography, and reject ads outside the ... More >>

Craig Newmark Speaks at Victim's Memorial in Wake of Craigslist Killings

A couple of deranged killers have spoiled it for everybody: Craigslist is dropping its Erotic Services category. The Illinois attorney general's office announced that Craigslist will create an adult category which its employees will monitor for prostitution or pornography, and reject ads outside the ... More >>

Queens Man Busted for Pimping 14-Year-Old on Craigslist

A 25-year-old Queens man was indicted today on charges that he pimped a 14-year-old girl that he met on social networking websites late last year. The girl was 13 and living in an out-of-state group home when she met the defendant, Jamaal Watkins, on the sites CrushSpot and MySpace, according to the ... More >>

Facebook Relents, Drops "We Own Everything" TOS

The words "Facebook" and "forever" appeared together in a lot of news stories this week, but not as an endearment. On Sunday Consumerist revealed that Facebook had changed its terms of service so that, essentially, anything that anyone put on Facebook belonged to Facebook in a "irrevocable, perpetu ... More >>

YouTube Cracks Down on Porn

The words "Facebook" and "forever" appeared together in a lot of news stories this week, but not as an endearment. On Sunday Consumerist revealed that Facebook had changed its terms of service so that, essentially, anything that anyone put on Facebook belonged to Facebook in a "irrevocable, perpetu ... More >>

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Why MySpace Music Won't Succeed

Rupert Murdoch's pride and joy is trying to go legit; mayhem may ensue, and success may not

Chris Crocker Leaves YouTube, Alone

Rupert Murdoch's pride and joy is trying to go legit; mayhem may ensue, and success may not

Democracy Dot Com: The Left Shoots Back

Rupert Murdoch's pride and joy is trying to go legit; mayhem may ensue, and success may not

Apocalypse Now? Purse-snatchers and iPhone Robbers

Rupert Murdoch's pride and joy is trying to go legit; mayhem may ensue, and success may not

Oh, College: The NYU Yankee Stadium "Streaker"

Rupert Murdoch's pride and joy is trying to go legit; mayhem may ensue, and success may not

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Top 10 Reasons Why NSA Wiretapping is Bad For America

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The Christmas List: Spa Gifts for the Beauty Illiterate

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Porn Goes Web 2.0?

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Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

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It's Official: Hipsters Love Food

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Does 'Free Vegan' Equal 'Freegan'?

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Music Videos Get Small

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Last Meal: Saddam Hussein?

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YouTube Flirts with Legitimacy

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New Word Order

Digital Graffiti or Communication Breakthrough?

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Digital Graffiti or Communication Breakthrough?

Paper Trail

The Cat-and-Mouse of the Game of Online Plagiarism