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The Chinese version of popular internet-based game World of Warcraft has been ordered to shut down by a government agency.
The race to archive GeoCities pages began after the free website company’s imminent demise was announced.
A gifted student who publicly confronted Iran’s Supreme Leader has reportedly gone missing and an internet campaign has been launched to publicise his disappearance.
A bizarre video of a bewildered Anna Nicole Smith painted like a clown has been submitted as evidence that she was being held in a drugged stupor by Howard K. Stern.
Middle America is up in arms after fully exposed breasts were aired on TV – as part of a breast cancer exam awareness campaign!
An American girl sparked an international rescue effort after she alerted British authorities about a teenager’s Facebook suicide note.
The Apple marketing department is taking subtle swipes at Microsoft via Google AdWords.
Wal-Mart and other US retailers have been accused of selling goods from farms that use child labor.
Steve Abrams wouldn’t advise dropping out of college, though it seemed to work for him. He got out of there a semester in, and is now successfully the owner of […]
The economic boats aren’t rising, they’re bobbing, and analysts are being swept away by the tide of numbers, writes the Wall Street Journal.
The Facebook game FarmVille is making agriculture sexy again. But are online farms warping our view of how food is made?
Google takes on iTunes with its new music search platform integrated with sister firms MySpace and LaLa.
Is the shady figure in a new video released by Al Qaeda the most wanted man on Earth, Osama Bin Laden?
Two men have been arrested in connection with a terror plot against the Danish newspaper which published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
A nasty virus has been hitching a lift on Facebook’s password reset confirmation email, posing a risk for users.
A refreshingly non-mainstream media company, INFOWARS.COM, has released a new documentary in the tradition of other cult docs like Loose Change and Zeitgeist. The new film is called Fall of […]
Andy Dunn was sick of the way that his pants fit. So he and a friend from Stanford Business School started an online pants company called Bonobos. They make reasonably […]
An experiment in creativity saw a Twitter-based version of ‘exquisite corpse’ started by Neil Gaiman. But is this really how fiction should be made?
Should we pass laws requiring phone companies to pass on location co-ordinates of cell phones to emergency response teams?
The Obama Administration has continued to challenge Fox News as a worthy news network and as noted earlier, reaction can concentrate on the content of the White House’s challenge or […]
An MSNBC anchor made a big mistake when she introduced Rev. Jesse Jackson as Rev. Al Shaprton.
A massively magnified sea bird made a surprise appearance on Melbourne’s Channel Nine news.
In these ‘lean times’ media agencies are angered by journalist’s living it large all-expenses-paid.
A report calls for publicly funded journalism. Meanwhile, a Colorado newspaper is seeking a pot critic. 9 out 10 readers won’t pay for online news. And the Barnes & Noble […]
The nuclear explosion of new media has inspired a real time counter to track the number of blogs, Tweets, Facebook users second by second.
New York City real estate developer Ian Reisner spent 15 years at Salomon Brothers. He remembers the consequences of coming out of the closet on the trading floor, during a […]
Historian Robert Lacey is known for getting very serious about his subjects, immersing himself in the culture and personalities of the people and places he studies. He just released up […]
BoA emails claim US regulators told them its subsidised purchase of Merrill Lynch would ‘boost shares’.
New research shows growing numbers of homeless lost houses to foreclosure.
Technology and media bloggers have been quick to declare the death of print, both in newspaper and book format. The bold new future will come to us through e-readers like […]