The Murdoch/News International scandal has all the elements of the digital age, from phone-hacking through embarrassing emails to agile digital reporting.
Reporting from "overnight duty" (hmm…) at Internet Evolution, Kim Davis gives an update on the day Wikipedia, Reddit, and BoingBoing went dark to protest SOPA.
Google Internet Evangelist Vinton G. Cerf is right to argue that the Internet is not a basic human right. (Though Kim knows he was the one to say it first…)
Facebook has more than 5 million deceased members and policies for how to handle their accounts. But, one problem: After people pass away, it's too late for them to decide whether they want their social media accounts preserved, "memorialized," or deleted.
Congrats to the best-selling author who persuaded Facebook to allow him to register an account as Salman, rather than under his "real" but never used name, Ahmed Rushdie.
Kim's Kindle is targeting special offers at him, apparently under the impression that he's a 23-year-old "fabulous and fierce" woman. An easy mistake to make.
Allowing users to share music and video on Facebook might sound like good news, but is this part of a coherent strategy, or is Facebook just stumbling from idea to idea?
While the publishing industry reels from the pressure of digital books and freely available content on the Web, one branch of the industry, the publishers of academic books and journals, remains above the fray. How is this possible and how long will it last?
Anonymous retaliated against recent arrests of its members on a large scale but apparently engaged in pointless hacks of rural police forces in the United States.
A new deals Website, Bevvy helps you obtain your nightclub benefits discreetly by using a secret password. (Shhhh… don't tell Bevvy, but Kim thinks this is pretty dumb.)
With Google+ about to be added to the multitude of online platforms governing your life, virtual living is starting to feel overwhelming – and it's creating online widows (and widowers!).
President Obama conducted a town hall via Twitter this week by giving long-winded, spoken responses to Tweets. Kim thinks he should have just Tweeted back – and he demonstrates it can be done!
Pandora.com has released 10,000 comedy clips on its site and developed an algorithm to find the ones that will make you laugh. Kim, however, is not amused.
Hollywood directors are outraged at a deal between major studios and DirecTV to bring new movies straight to your home. Let’s see what Kim and his toy sheep have to say about this!
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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