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Copyright law has gone so wrong

Anyone who has been following the Software Online Piracy Act (SOPA) hearings can see what happens when industry heavyweights meet clueless politicians. Bad legislation ensues, and that's what we're

HTML5 set to be finalized in 2014

The specification for HTML5 aims to be official in three years' time, as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) outlined the timeline for the HTML5 roadmap earlier this week. The "last call" for HTML5

The web is alive, I tell you! Alive!

Last week Chris Anderson , editor of Wired magazine and famous author of The Long Tail , wrote a compelling piece of link bait called " The Web is dead. " Anderson's hypothesis was that apps like those

Blowback to Wired's "The Web is Dead" story

A Wired magazine cover story announcing that "The Web is Dead" naturally generated frenzied pushback, over the week. The article, by Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff, puts forth the argument that

Twelve outdated tech terms

There are plenty of tech terms that are dinosaurs--throwbacks to the early years of the Internet. Your staff probably doesn't even now them, and if you used them you could become the laughingstock of

AP needs to understand how the web works

Hey, folks. It's good to be back after a three-week hiatus. While I was gone, AP continued its quixotic attack on linking. To be honest, I find this debate tiresome, but AP insists on bringing it up

Internet will run out of space soon

There's the nine-digit Social Security Number that has worked for generations. There's the five-digit zip code that basically works--although the Postal Service added four new digits for businesses

Big brother is watching

The founder of the World Wide Web has a warning for the online world: We all are at increased risk of governments and corporations spying on us. Tim Berners-Lee, who founded the World Wide Web, said