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Story Archives of 'Internet'
How to Survive the Strange
By Avishay Artsy on Thursday, March 18, 2010.
Network television shows boast star actors, large budgets, and lots of special effects. Internet television, on the other hand, tends toward the amateurish. But it can be produced far from Hollywood sound stages, even in New Hampshire.
In recent years filmmakers on the Seacoast have been flexing their creative muscles making shows for the web, and building devoted audiences for their content. Now this loose-knit collective of producers is starting another series.
Our producer and director Avishay Artsy checked in on the auditions.
C-SPAN Uploads Their Video Archive
By Katrina Ingraham on Tuesday, March 16, 2010.
Can’t get enough C-SPAN? Well political junkies rejoice. C-SPAN has now put its entire video archive online. That’s 160,000 hours of footage spanning 23 years.
Training Cyber Police
By Laura Sheeter on Monday, March 15, 2010.
We heard about federal efforts to bring broadband internet access to everyone in America. With that access comes increased need for cyber security. Throughout the country, a number of degree programs are emerging to fight internet hackers. BBC’s Digital Planet asks if our internet defense is already too far behind? Reporter Laura Sheeter brings us this story.
Listen to this piece at BBC's Digital Planet.
The Government's National Broadband Plan
By Virginia Prescott on Monday, March 15, 2010.
Now for a look ahead to the new federal broadband plan being unveiled tomorrow. The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) says its goal is to improve broadband access for almost 100 million U.S. residents.
The Fed's plan is to ask broadcasters to give up excess airwaves in service to the plan. Unused transmission space would then be auctioned off to wireless carriers that can use it to deliver mobile-web access. But, business and some tech groups are questioning whether the FCC’s plan is too ambitious and expensive. Joining us on the show to talk more about this is Olga Kharif, senior writer for BusinessWeek.com.
Business Week: The FCC National Broadband Plan: Long Haul Expected
Smart Planet: National Broadband Plan: Rural Electrification all over again
Computer World: FCC's national broadband plan: What's in it?
(Photo by dalbera via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
Here's What's Awesome: Clock-Setting Manuals, LED Ceilings
By Brady Carlson on Sunday, March 14, 2010.Weekends = fun, or at least that's supposed to be how it works. Whether you're sleeping in, watching the "Trolololo" video for the 8,129th time or just holding a wedding ceremony with a pillow, these two days are your chance to kick back and enjoy what life has to offer.
Is Internet Access a Fundamental Right?
By Katrina Ingraham on Monday, March 8, 2010.
There’s the right to free speech, the right to party, but what about the right to surf the web? A survey conducted for the BBC World Service has found that 87 percent of internet users, and 70 percent of non-internet users, feel that internet access should be considered a fundamental human right. 27,000 adults across 26 countries took part in the poll.
China's Internet Morality Police
By Abby Goldstein on Monday, March 8, 2010.
In China, internet users approach the concept of crowd sourcing as a means to band together as vigilantes for justice. Web-based crowd sourcing is most often associated with sharing information, designing T-shirts or researching political records. Wikipedia is an obvious example.
But in China, the power of crowds is being harnessed to plot revenge on people who’ve behaved badly. Internet users band together into cyber-posses and track down cheating husbands, accused pedophiles, and – in one notorious case – a killer of kittens.
Reporter Tom Downey writes about it in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine, and he joins us to explain.
New York Times Magazine: China's Cyber Posse
(Photo by Stian Eikeland via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
Missed Connections
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, February 11, 2010.
We continue on the modern relationship theme with “missed connections.” It’s a popular section of Craigslist, the community bulletin board where people find apartments, sell furniture and sometimes, find love. Missed connections lets strangers take a chance that the fleeting glimpse shared at the supermarket or streetcorner might lead to something more.
In a city like New York, missed connections offers a chance to sift through 8 million people and maybe, just maybe, connect.
Sophie Blackall is a Brooklyn-based illustrater who sees magic in these vignettes and turns them into whimsical paintings posted on her blog.
NH Craigslist Missed Connections
The Concord Insider: NH Missed Connections
(Illustration by Sophie Blackall)
Here's What's Awesome: Bribe-Fighting Currency, Energy-Building Soccer Balls
By Brady Carlson on Sunday, February 7, 2010.This week we thought it would be fun for Here's What's Awesome to go big, just like all the football fans in Miami. So we put together an outline for a six hour pre-blog show, complete with in-depth features on each link and narration by Tom Selleck. Then we looked to have big-time ads in between links, as well as a halftime show with a world-class act.
Share With Thy Neighbor
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, February 4, 2010.
Wheel barrels, baby cribs, canoes. Don’t have one of your own? Somebody has one out in the garage. There's a new fix for that.
A pack of websites are facilitating the exchange of goods and services. Whether it’s fresh produce from a local garden or a working snow blower, online exchange forums are popping up in neighborhoods throughout the country.
But are commodity-loving Americans really ready to give up all their stuff, or borrow someone else’s?Janelle Orsi, co-author of the recent book, The Sharing Solution, thinks so. And Justine Fenwick, founder of GoGoVerde, a site where users can swap goods and services, also joins us.
(Photo by Hot Meteor via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
