Recently, there has been talk of a proposed bill in Congress which could give the White House the authority to control the internet in the event of an emergency.  Bill S.773, also called the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Sen. Olympia Snow (R-ME), presents the potential for a sort [...]

The old adage says that “all press is good press,” but with the omnipresence of social networks, this theory may change.  It can be relatively easy to achieve celebrity in a socially networked world, but it seems to be just as easy to achieve notoriety and infamy.  People might forget the negative press.  YouTube never [...]

It’s amazing how one simple sentence, one word even, can set the internet and the blogosphere foaming at the mouth.  At the American Magazine Conference, Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced that the internet was a “cesspool” and that brands serve as the giant filter, the main form of protection from the cesspool.  Within minutes, the [...]

Christmas is my favorite time of the year.  The famous Christmas carol heralds that it is, in fact, the most wonderful time of the year, and I would agree with that.  However, it seems that this year may not be quite as wonderful as in years past.  The first spending projections for the season came [...]