Social Issues

Magazine articles on the internet's impact on society, privacy, spam, hacking, scams, regulation.

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The Motley Fool June 4, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Jack Bauer's Gonna Get You, Pirate Punk Fox goes after a 24 pirate, split screen and all. Few will be able to make a legal argument in favor of the renegade uploads. So is this a time for fisticuffs or for diplomacy? Fox is in a desirable position.
Wall Street & Technology May 25, 2007 Penny Crosman	Brokerage Firms Are Starting to Use Digital Rights Technology to Protect Their Research Plagiarism by online content vendors and the need to sell research profitably are driving the top brokerage firms to guard their reports with digital right management tools.
PC Magazine May 30, 2007 Lisa Zyga	Sniffing Out Fake Blogs Big companies have discovered the power of blogging as a marketing tool, but some Web users are fighting back.
PC Magazine May 30, 2007 Heather Eng	Wilfing the Day Away A new study says workers are wasting more time online than ever before. What exactly is "wilfing," and should we be worried?
Reason June 2007 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Wikipedia and Beyond Wikipedia was born as an experiment in aggregating information. But the reason it works isn't that the world was clamoring for a new kind of encyclopedia. It took off because of the robust, self-policing community it created. Despite its critics, it is transforming our everyday lives.
ifeminists May 31, 2007 Wendy McElroy	The Harassment of Online Women The subject of women bloggers being threatened and harassed is a hot topic right now but the fact that other women are eagerly perpetrating the viciousness is not being addressed. Here are some examples.
Inc. June 2007 Max Chafkin	How to Kill a Great Idea! Jonathan Abrams created the first online social network and enlisted Silicon Valley's best and brightest to run it. Yet Friendster flamed out spectacularly. What went wrong?
InternetNews May 25, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Standards Group OKs E-Mail Validation Spec The Internet Engineering Task Force has adopted a vendor-developed specification designed to detect e-mail with bogus header information. The technology could help reduce spam and phishing attacks that clog Internet traffic.
InternetNews May 23, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Learning to Live With Spam Pew research finds users have gotten smarter about spam and are learning to deal with it, in more ways than one.
The Motley Fool May 23, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	I Spy a Lost Opportunity Spyware is the talk of Congress, but the bill has no teeth.
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