Wednesday’s a lot anticipated, extensively watched SOPA hearing lasted twelve hrs — 12 terrible hrs of the many of the nation’s most effective individuals pulling on the levers that manage the Net while admitting they do not truly know how the Internet performs. In the end, not a single amendment was passed, and pending a 2nd round of marking up the bill on Friday, it looks like [...]

Individuals are employing the Web to spend a lot more bills and send a lot more messages. The weak economy is reducing marketing. So what do Americans feel about the need for the post office? ___ Ohio State University graduate student Allison Fisher says she pays most of her bills electronically, so if postal companies were to decrease or finish, it would have an effect on her considerably less than [...]

Sandra Ordonez is a web astronaut who specializes in digital technique and collaboration. A passionate open source chick, she presently serves as external communications lead for Joomla!, and previously served as Wikipedia’s director of communication. Couple of things bothered Sylvia Martinez much more than what the web thought of her and other Latinas. [More from Mashable: Search for Facebook, [...]

Internet users are continually judged by how they use the Net. Embarrassing Facebook images (no, I don’t want to see you do a keg stand), inane tweets (I do not care what you ate nowadays), and archaic email  (Aunt Millie, please get rid of your AOL account) can all be sources of silent disapproval or open ridicule from those we interact with on the Net. And now there’s yet another: [...]

CAIRO (AFP) – Six months after they launched a revolution that ousted the regime, Egyptian bloggers have acknowledged that it takes more than a Facebook page on the Web to overthrow a dictator. “The Web played a essential part but it was not the only tool. The revolution really belongs to the people,” stated Wael Abbas, a veteran Egyptian blogger who has been posting his thoughts in [...]

China’s huge on-line police force is apparently censoring Web discussion about former president Jiang Zemin, whose absence from a key Communist Celebration occasion sparked rumours he was seriously ill. The 84-year-old failed to seem at celebrations marking the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party on Friday, just as Hong Kong media reported he was ill, launching a frenzy of speculation on [...]

HAVANA (Reuters) – Members of Cuba’s modest Twitter community gathered on Friday for the 1st time to put faces to names in a meeting in which political viewpoints were off limits but complaints about the island’s poor Net connections had been not. About 50 people showed up at a civic center in the Cuban capital for the occasion — referred to as #TwittHab — organized by [...]