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Mourning a Loved One Via the Internet

Alison Kuzmickas — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:16:00 +0000

The funeral industry is embracing the digital age. Funeral homes are beefing up their websites and social media to include tributes and photographs of the departed.

Here's What's Awesome!

Brady Carlson — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:53:17 +0000

1) Replacement ref revolution! and Replacement ref Armageddon!

2)Protests – How they play out in web culture:

·US Ambassador Susan Rice: Twitter crucial to her mission

The Coolest Police Website Ever

Virginia Prescott — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:58:07 +0000

Anyone who’s been online looking for DMV hours, or tried to download a fishing license application knows that government websites are rarely a good time. No frills, no eye for design – just a lot of dense, complicated information and a wealth of webified bureaucracy. So, imagine our surprise when we saw posts on AdWeek and Ad Age praising the beauty and functionality of the Milwaukee Police Department website. The sit

To Read All Those Web Privacy Policies, Just Take A Month Off Work

Shankar Vedantam — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:08:00 +0000

Internet surfers have long worried that they have insufficient control over their online privacy — despite the privacy policies many people agree to when they visit websites or use online services.

There are data to support the surfers' feelings: Online privacy policies are so cumbersome and onerous that it would take the average person about 250 working hours every year — about 30 full working days — to actually read the privacy policies of the websites they visit in a year, according to an analysis by researchers