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Blacksburg reminds us how to worry about our kids
Apr 17, 2011 | 40 years online, Family
What you choose when you choose a network
Apr 16, 2011 | Community, 40 years online
When I went to work for the Rae government, I thought the choice of which computer to use was a choice of Mac vs PC. But what I was really choosing was a connection to a group of people who would change my life, and the future of our country.
Finding the soul of the web in HTML
Apr 15, 2011 | Community, 40 years online
Search party: 10 tips for better searching on Google and beyond
Apr 14, 2011 | Top Posts of 2011: How to, 40 years online, Productivity, Toolbox
Online innovators turn foresight into insight
Apr 13, 2011 | 40 years online, Career
Quiz: What level of online security is right for you?
Apr 12, 2011 | Top privacy, security and surveillance posts, 40 years online, Lifestyle
Core tenets of the social web
Apr 11, 2011 | Community, 40 years online
The Core Tenets of the Social Web, 25 years in the making
Apr 11, 2011 | The Harvard Business Review, Top Thought Posts, 40 years online
This post originally appeared on the Harvard Business Review. We like to think of the social web as green fields in which we are just now sowing best practices and first principles. After all, if there are no hard-and-fast rules, then anything goes. We get to come up...
Cut the cord
Apr 11, 2011 | Lifestyle, 40 years online
Honoring the debt Canada’s connectivity owes to Chinese workers
Apr 9, 2011 | Community, Top Thought Posts, 40 years online
When you choose a historical metaphor, you make claims on conscience as well as imagination. Canada chose to complete its national network of connectivity in November 1985, on the 100th anniversary of completing a national railway built on the hard work of ill-treated Chinese workers. The Canadian – and global — Internet is in danger of repeating that sad history.