The Internet matters less than we think
Virginia Heffernan on the magic and loss inherent in Internet culture
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What is @ about?
When he invented email, Ray Tomlinson also transformed the @ sign from 1,500-year-old typographic relic into the workhorse of Internet communications
5 things we learned from Alibaba’s IPO filing
American capitalism has been waiting for this moment, a peak inside Alibaba, the hottest company to come out of Chinese capitalism
Wikipedia looks to play nice with PR people
Founder Jimmy Wales once said Wikipedia was no place for the "puffery and spin" of PR. That could change.
Crowd-sourced governance
A new project from NDP MP Craig Scott
The line between love and hate clicks
Emma Teitel on our love/hate relationship with the Internet
Horse_ebooks spam Twitter account is operated by a real person
The Internet is disappointed when a popular meme is busted
Porn-blocking: Joy Smith applauds David Cameron
A British plan to filter online pornography
Why we should forget Einstein’s tree-climbing fish
Prof. Pettigrew on how the genius truly viewed education