The US Congress is considering America's first system for censoring the Internet.
Despite public outcry, the Internet Censorship bill could pass at any time.
If it does, the Internet and free speech will never be the same:

Memento wants to make it as straightforward to access the Web of the past as it is to access the current Web.

If you know the URI of a Web resource, the technical framework proposed by Memento allows you to see a version of that resource as it existed at some date in the past, by entering that URI in your browser like you always do and by specifying the desired date in a browser plug-in.

Welcome to Archive-It, a web archiving service from the Internet Archive. Archive-It allows institutions to harvest and preserve collections of digital content and create digital archives. Through a user-friendly web interface, Archive-It partners can catalog, manage, and browse their archived collections using web archiving tools developed at the Internet Archive. Collections are hosted at the Internet Archive data center and are accessible to the public, including full-text search.

Warrick is a free utility for reconstructing (or recovering) a website when a back-up is not available. Warrick will search the following web repositories for missing resources: Internet Archive, Google, Bing (formerly Live Search), and Yahoo. All of the resources are gathered together and provided to you as a single collection of files. Pl

Making over a billion long URLs usable! Serving billions of redirects per month.

Spurned by Google+, the infamous "hacktivists" are developing a no-holds-barred alternative

A study says that we rely on external tools, including the Internet, to augment our memory.

Cisco says it can't be held responsible for what governments do with its equipment, and countless other firms seem to agree.

I am a VC. I have been since 1986. I help people start and build technology companies. I do it in NYC. I am the Managing Partner of two venture capital firms, Flatiron Partners and Union Square Ventures.

Tim Mullen, Richard Warp, Adam Jansch
NIME 2011, Oslo Nofway

Anonymizer, a company that helps businesses and individuals conceal private information when searching the Web

In light of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's admission this month that he should have designed World Wide Web http addresses without the double forward slashes, TIME looks back at some other memorable screwups involving the Internet

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis

If This Then That
this (trigger) that (action) on (channel)

SoundCloud Labs showcases a number of experimental projects, features and apps all built using SoundCloud’s platform. They’re hosted here to give you a place to find some of our crazier, cutting-edge ideas and to show what our developer team gets up to when they’re not sleeping. Please keep in mind that all apps are experimental and while we’ll try to support them as best as possible, they come with no guarantees.

Webopedia is a free online dictionary for words, phrases and abbreviations that are related to computer and Internet technology.
 
Webopedia provides easy-to-understand definitions in plain language, avoiding the use of heavy jargon when possible so that the site is accessible to users with a wide range of computer knowledge

From retrofuturist media prophecies to the cognitive consequences of mobile-everything

When the entire country of Egypt was forced offline by its government last month, it served as a global wake-up call that the Internet is a more fragile medium than we imagine it to be. What happened in Egypt was particularly striking, but other, subtler tests of the Internet's resilience abound.

Because the Internet’s legendary robustness and ability to route around blockages are part of its basic design, even the world’s most renowned network and telecommunications engineers have been perplexed that the Mubarak government succeeded in pulling the maneuver off.

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No. No really, we mean it, you don't.

ref: heather wade

Also check out WhenBadWebsitesHappenToGoodPeople.com

What is IPv6?

IPv6 or IP version 6 is the next generation Internet protocol which will eventually replace the current protocol IPv4. IPv6 has a number of improvements and simplifications when compared to IPv4. The primary difference is that IPv6 uses 128 bit addresses as compared to the 32 bit addresses used with IPv4. Among other things, this improvement is expected to make assigning address to wireless devices easier and accommodate the myriad smart network enabled devices that will surround us in the future.

In her new book, an MIT professor shares her ambivalence about the overuses of technology, which, she writes, "proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies."

the berndt group

http://www.berndtgroup.net/

We create easy-to-use, beautiful, and free software to benefit educators every single day.

Technology has a large impact in our everyday lives, but it has not fully impacted education. A strong technology team could enable educators to spend less time on administrative work and more time teaching students. The best solutions should be available to every educator in the world.

How Big Is The Internet? [Infographic]

Browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago

The DSLreports.com domain was registered in June 1999 and populated with various bits of information on the proliferation of new DSL powered small ISPs, as well as user reviews. The first version of the site even ran off a home (small business) DSL line from the (now defunct) NorthPoint CLEC.

We try to have a consumer-first point of view, and defend the privacy and confidentiality of our myriad contributors. Despite our domain name, we are agnostic over broadband connectivity technology: Cable, Wireless and Satellite users are as welcome and as numerous as our DSL users.

For as little as $0.25, you can set up web sites at NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, the original home of only pay for what you use hosting.

Did China's government really divert 15% of the Internet's traffic for eighteen minutes in April, effortlessly intercepting sensitive traffic in flight, and generally creating a massively embarrassing man-in-the-middle attack on vulnerable global communications?

In what has become something of a yearly tradition, it’s now time for us to present 10 of the most noteworthy incidents on the Internet from this past year. As you’ll see, 2010 has been very interesting.

A Valencia woman's checking account has been drained four times over the last two years by scammers who have fraudulently linked it to online PayPal accounts.

ref. from Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide

A few of us at Google created WhatBrowser.org to help teach people about web browsers. We wanted to show people that they have a lot of choice in browsers, since we noticed that most people were using the browser that their computers came with.

PlanetLab is a global research network that supports the development of new network services. Since the beginning of 2003, more than 1,000 researchers at top academic institutions and industrial research labs have used PlanetLab to develop new technologies for distributed storage, network mapping, peer-to-peer systems, distributed hash tables, and query processing.

An experiment run by Duke University and a European group responsible for managing Internet resources went wrong Friday, disrupting a small percentage of Internet traffic.

The ISFDB is a community effort to catalog works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It links together various types of bibliographic data: author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazine content listings, anthology and collection content listings, and forthcoming books.

Will China's Web, like its larger economy, comfortably combine extraordinary growth with government repression?

Fast Company undertook a whistle-stop analysis of Ternovskiy's words to discover whether he and his site will make a mint out of the Internet.

The Berkman Center's mission is to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions.

We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.

Where Innovation and Creativity Converge

My name is danah boyd. In addition to being an expert on social media, I am a doctoral student in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley and a fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and is working to provide specialized services relating to training, education, or adaptive reading or information access needs of blind or other persons with disabilities.

The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

What is the Wayback Machine? How can I get my site included in the Wayback Machine?
The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is a service that allows people to visit archived versions of Web sites. Visitors to the Wayback Machine can type in a URL, select a date range, and then begin surfing on an archived version of the Web. Imagine surfing circa 1999 and looking at all the Y2K hype, or revisiting an older version of your favorite Web site. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine can make all of this possible.

Free web traffic metrics, top sites lists, site demographics, hot urls, and more...

An hour long machinima film produced in a bedroom in China has stirred emotions and quickly become a big hit with over 10 million people watching the movie in the first week it was available online. The movie is a satire that takes a swipe at Chinese authorities attempts to monitor and control internet use.

The GMPG attempts to stimulate simplification of virtual substructures and bring people to question established structures and their relationships.
XFN - XHTML Friends Network
XMDP - XHTML Meta Data Profiles

WCAG 2.0, Success Criteria 1.4.7 is a guideline for accessible audio files on the internet. The goal is to help people who are hard of hearing understand the speech (foreground). This is done by making sure that any background music or noise is very quiet. Background music (or sound) should be at least 20dB lower than the foreground speech.

using the www for research

The Intute Virtual Training Suite - a national JISC service for UK
universities and colleges offering over 60 free web-based tutorials
teaching Internet research skills. (This service was formerly known as the
RDN Virtual Training Suite)

The LearnHigher Project - a partnership of 16 Universities forming a HEFCE-funded Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL).

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said his company opposes censorship in China and aims to apply pressure to improve the situation for the country's people.

I sent an email to Googlers about the meaning of "open" as it relates to the Internet, Google, and our users. In the spirit of openness, I thought it would be appropriate to share these thoughts with those outside of Google as well.

Share, Chat, Browse. Anonymously. On the Free Network.
Freenet is free software which lets you anonymously share files, browse and publish "freesites" (web sites accessible only through Freenet) and chat on forums, without fear of censorship. Freenet is decentralised to make it less vulnerable to attack, and if used in "darknet" mode, where users only connect to their friends, is very difficult to detect.

Adults with little Internet experience show changes in their brain activity after just one week online, a new study finds.

Science fiction writer Frank Herbert reading excerpts from his "Dune" series.

The only run-anywhere, no-lock-in rich internet platform. Period.

’ve always liked how outspoken Tim Westergren of Pandora is. He’s not one of those all-too-common founders who puffs up his chest and gives rationalizations for why everything is great even as user numbers are sliding or a competitor is stealing momentum. When his company is in trouble—which Pandora was for most of its life—he’ll tell you in excruciating detail, even down to ugly employee lawsuits.

Future Perfect Radio is an indie Internet radio station.

What's Internet radio? It's like traditional AM/FM radio in that it's free. But unline over-the-air radio, we offer dozens of different channels and play music you actually want to hear.

Welcome to CreativeCloud – a melting pot of the best of printer tech, design, humour and news on the web.

One of the big problems is how we converse. Typing still leaves something to be desired as a communication tool; it lacks the nuances that can be expressed by body language and voice inflection. "Online, people can't see the yawn," says Patricia Wallace, a psychologist at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth and author of "The Psychology of the Internet."

4chan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images. 4chan's collaborative-community format is copied from one of the most popular forums in Japan, Futaba Channel. Different boards are dedicated to different topics, from Japanese anime, manga, and culture to videogames, music, and photography. Users do not need to register a username before participating in the community. Feel free to click on a board that interests you, and jump right in—anyone can contribute!