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JFK Library Goes Digital on 50th Anniversary of Camelot
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe JFK Library and Museum has unveiled the nation's largest online presidential archives, making the writings, speeches and personal correspondence of John Fitzgerald Kennedy available to more people than ever before. Fifty years after Kennedy's inauguration on Jan. 20, 1961, the days of his presidency have come alive online. Visitors to the digital library can view the president's most famous speeches, click through telegrams from civil rights leader Medgar Evers imploring Kennedy to get tougher on racial discrimination and listen in on his conversation with Eleanor Roosevelt about the ...
Hawaii U Posted Private Info of 40,000 Students Online
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Oct. 29) -- More than 40,000 former University of Hawaii students now know what plenty of others before them have regrettably experienced firsthand: Security online can be elusive. The students' Social Security numbers, grades and other private information were made public after a faculty member at the school accidentally posted the information online, according to The Associated Press. The sensitive information of anyone who attended the school's Manoa campus from 1990 to 1998 or in 2001 was available over the Internet, university spokesman Ryan Mielke told the AP. The security breach ...
Sex vs. the Internet: 12 Percent of Women Would Rather Stay Online
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Oct. 27) -- The Internet is a glorious invention, but is it really better than sex? For most Americans, the answer is still a decided "no." But there is a subset of the population, at least, that would rather give up fun between the sheets than cascading style sheets, if forced to choose between the two. Meet the true webophiles: Surprise, more of them are women than men. Actually, that shouldn't be that much of a shock, given that a greater percentage of Web users are women anyway, and that's the way it's been for at least the past five years. Furthermore, women aren't using the Web just ...
You Say It's Your Birthday: The Web Celebrates John Lennon's 70th Early
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 8) -- Although nearly three decades have passed since John Lennon was murdered on a cold December night in New York, there is no question that the Beatles legend's legacy remains vital among his worldwide fans. Lennon, born Oct. 9, 1940, would have turned 70 years old on Saturday, and people who both revere his peaceful ideology and adore him for his timeless music will gather to celebrate the musician and activist's life. Really, since every day is a good day to listen to John Lennon and the Beatles, the Surge Desk gets you started a little early with a round-up of Lennon ...
Birth, 2.0: Many Babies Born Online Before Real Life
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Oct. 7) -- In Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher's "The Social Network," a cocaine-addled Sean Parker, played by Justin Timberlake, rattles off a vision of the future that, depending on your point of view, is either dystopia or utopia. "We lived on farms, we lived in cities," he says. "Now we'll live on the Internet." For many American children, that's becoming the reality they are born into. Internet security firm AVG recently did a study on the digital information available for the youngest citizens of some of the world's most wired (or, really today, wireless) countries, including the U.S., ...
Wired Magazine Declares 'The Death of the Web': Premature, or Just Wrong?
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 17) -- You are reading these words on a soon-to-be obsolete medium, at least according to Wired magazine. "The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet," reads the sensational headline to the lead article (or rather, two articles placed side-by-side) of the September issue, co-written by Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson and Newser founder Michael Wolff. First off, before we get to their arguments, let's review the distinction between the two commonly conflated networks, as About.com explains: The Internet and the World Wide Web have a whole-to-part relationship. The Internet is the ...
Amazon Battles Back on Sales Tax
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailyIt's Amazon vs. Colorado, bloggers vs. lawmakers, local retailers vs. behemoths and, of course, Democrats vs. Republicans. A week after Colorado enacted sales taxes for retailers with affiliates in the state, Amazon fired back Monday, eliminating thousands of "associates." Those associates are typically retailers or bloggers who include Amazon advertising on their pages in exchange for a cut of the revenue when a Web surfer clicks and buys. The 2.9 percent online sales tax is one of nine tax measures signed by Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter to help close the state's huge budget shortfall but it's ...
Thou Shalt Not Tweet Sincerely
By Judy Howard Ellis - Politics DailyWashington Post Ombudsman Andrew Alexander recently wrote about the tweets of one Post editor, Raju Narisetti, and how the editor's decision to close a Twitter account coincided with the release of newsroom guidelines for using online social networks. But were Narisetti's tweets really a runaway train or a teachable moment? Narisetti had quipped on Twitter: "We can incur all sorts of federal deficits for wars and what not. But we have to promise not to increase it by $1 for healthcare reform? Sad." "Sen Byrd (91) in hospital after he falls from 'standing up too quickly.' How about term ...
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