The Soviet Union launched Sputnik on October 4, 1957 during President Eisenhower’s administration.

This blog periodically looks at the immeasurable contributions that an impartial media brings to a democratic society, i.e.

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Herb Schmertz & The Huffington Post

Silicon-Valley investor and legend, Bill Davidow, has big plans for the Web.

Most of the panelists agreed that the internet was, in fact, helping make the world a better place and that the social network sphere was allowing users from all over the world to interact and share ideas with greater ease than ever before. However, Andrew Keen vehemently disagreed and noted that our nation’s “rampant individualism’ was to blame for the country not resembling a democracy the likes of which were described by de Tocqueville.

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The 7th Annual State of the Net Conference – A Look at Social Media

At the beginning of this month, the U.S.

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Online Privacy Problems? The FTC Says It’s Got Your Back, But Does It?

The Federal Communications Commission will submit to Congress on Tuesday a 10-year plan that aims to make high-speed Internet the dominant communication medium in the U.S.: The blueprint reflects...

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FCC Plan Would Make U.S. High-Speed Internet a Common Medium

This morning I was a reluctant participant in third grade show-and-tell. Usually the kids bring books about dinosaurs, or vacation souvenirs, but my daughter took advantage of a little known provisi...

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Third Grade Show and Tell: Online Privacy

The Twitter advertizing platform isn’t even live yet and the UK’s advertizing standards watchdog already wants tighter controls. The same goes for Facebook.According to The Guardian, the ASA wants o...

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British Watchdog to Patrol Social Media, Twitter Campaigns

After linking Madonna's fundraising for favelas in Rio to the Kaballah Centre and its dodgy accounting practices investigative bloggers at Folha Online put Zynga's feet to the fire, forcing the develo...

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Facebook game maker Zynga admits keeeping 50% of Haiti relief donations

In the first test of how much Facebook members should trust online gaming operators like Zynga with handling funds ostensibly destined for charitable causes, Brazil's largest online newspaper has co...

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Zynga denies mishandling FarmVille Haiti funds

Is Chinese online video service getting more complicated or more clear? as Gary Wang, CEO of Tudou predicted, the threat would eventually come from the big guys. Qiyi, Baidu’s online video service i...

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China Watch: Online video market opening up?

Breaking with tradition, the Pentagon used Twitter to announce major changes in its social media policy rather than by issuing a traditional press release. You can read the NY Times coverage here.   ....

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Pentagon Uses Twitter to Announce New Social Media Policy

Noted psychiatrist R. D. Laing said "we live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing." We live in a world that is ...

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Moving beyond the industrial society

The U.S. Department of State sponsors something called the International Visitor Leadership Program which is a program in which young leaders from various parts of the world meet with leaders in the...

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Do We Take Social Media and Connectivity for Granted?