Aggressive prosecution #2: Internet activist driven to suicide.

The Wall Street Journal delves into the prosecution of Aaron Swartz: Mr. Swartz's lawyer, Elliot Peters, first discussed a possible plea...

"Reddit, Creative Commons and Demand Progress co-founder Aaron Swartz committed suicide in New York City on Friday, Jan. 11."

"He was 26 years old." Aaron Swartz was facing a potential sentence of dozens of years in prison for allegedly trying to make MIT ...

"We know what the future of the Internet's going to be."

"It's going to be a great, big video platform." And here I thought it was all about the return to reading and writing.

"You Can Search YouTube for LITERALLY ANYTHING + 'Rap' and Get Instant Sad."

That's true ... except the assumption it will make you sad. It made me happy!

"Instagram said today that it has the perpetual right to sell users' photographs without payment or notification..."

"... a dramatic policy shift that quickly sparked a public outcry." The new intellectual property policy, which takes effect on Ja...

"Scarlett Johansson Nude Photo Hacker Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison."

10 years?!

If you crashed your $376,000 Lamborghini Aventador into a snowy ditch and walked away from it...

... you'd Instagram it. You know you would! (Compare me, in 2005, when I wrecked my car .)

"What we are seeing are the early stages of what I call, 'The Appification of Everything.'"

Says Anthony Wing Kosner: This is not about adding more icons to your home screen, though, but about a fundamental shift in how we metaboliz...

"And after the miracle birth, Joseph and Mary rejoiced by eating the giant Cheeto."

Regretsy ... making fun of Etsy, which I was just reading about here ("Etsy Crafts A Strategy For Staying Handmade And Profitable...

Seen on the internet.

Grabbed this morning from a major news website : I just wanted you to know what's out there. I'm not saying be afraid, be very afrai...

"Time honors Sandra Fluke as 'Person of the Year' finalist."

That's the Breitbart headline for an item that begins "Just when you think Time magazine can’t make any more of a mockery of itse...

"I see a cure as a dynamic process, in which multiple doctors, professionals, artists, scientists and others join as a society..."

"... to converse, support each other, be open to various contributions and shape solutions that merge humanity, technology, technique, ...

"The Real Reason You Should Care About the Petraeus Affair: Privacy."

"If the CIA director couldn't keep his emails secret, neither can you." "Now everything is kept in the cloud on Google an...

MOOCs — Massive open online courses...

"... have caught fire in academia."  They offer, at no charge to anyone with Internet access, what was until now exclusive to thos...

Paul Ryan shirtless.

The headline "Top Ryan Google searches: 'vice president,' 'shirtless" made me skeptical. What about the other Ryan — ...

"O HAI Ann Althouse!"

"Now you know how to greet people in Lolspeak." On Flickr, just now, where they keep changing the "language" they use fo...

The left/right split on the question who invented the internet.

1. President Obama — in his notorious "you didn't build that" riff — said "The Internet didn't get invented on its ow...

Pinterest — where you display pictures of stuff you like — fosters "the feeling of being addicted to longing for something..."

"... specifically being addicted to the feeling that something is missing or incomplete. The point is not the thing that is being longe...

"A Crimson-faced Harvard Alumni Assn. says it regrets allowing [Ted] Kaczynski to use its so-called Red Book to update his profile."

"There, Kaczynski lists his occupation as 'prisoner' and includes the following as among his awards: 'Eight life sentences,...

"The Lessons For Facebook, Twitter And Reddit In Digg's Demise."

"If one virtual community can go from being worth almost $164 million to getting sold for parts in just a few years, why not another on...