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In the News (Mon 21 Dec 09)

  
 Urban Dictionary: internet phenomenon
Once an Internet phenomenon, it has outlived its 15 mintues of fame.
Bizarre Internet phenomenon of the man who can be seen in any photograph.
More of an observed phenomenon than a group of actual young people, kiddies refers to the apparent force that seemingly sways various events on the Internet.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=internet+phenomenon   (379 words)

  
 Clasione - Internet Marketing Phenomenon
After all is said and done, directing a sophisticated internet advertising campaign towards the promotion of your web site can immediately start driving sales and leads to your business creating overall success for your venture.
After the effectiveness of pagerank became reliable, it was introduced visibly to share with internet users and offers a glimpse of what Google would used to make decisions.
Without Net Neutrality, your internet service provider will have the right to filter out content they believe may interfere with their own agenda whatever it may be.
clasione.blogspot.com   (3281 words)

  
 The Internet Cultural Phenomenon
As is the case with a number of curricular initiatives, student interest in technology will play a major role in (a) driving the curricula, (b) influencing teachers' choices and styles of instructional delivery [4], and (c) advancing independent learning [5].
Although use of the Internet is a much publicized and popular discussion topic among professionals and students, actual usage as an academic tool is becoming a basic expectation.
A primary advantage of a course like IOI is using the Internet as a "virtual classroom." However, a "virtual classroom" assumes that the same facilities are available to all students and that Internet access is not a problem.
www.firstmonday.org /issues/issue4_1/hakim/index.html   (3486 words)

  
 The Internet Phenomenon, from SSS Online
The internet is an amazing thing -- a great place to do research, conduct business, play games, keep in touch with friends and relatives, and shop, just to name a few.
The very nature of the 'dated' traditional Internet résumé is that it can identify an individual to others.
Even in the midst of financial market turmoil caused by September 11, Brokerhunter.com had one of its most profitable periods by staying focused on delivering a needed service at a crucial time and viewing technology as a tool for providing service.
www.sss-mag.com /internet.html   (1389 words)

  
 The Internet Cultural Phenomenon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hyperbole aside, the Internet is here to stay; it has become more than a dynamic multimedia communication environment: it is a living culture (or a web of mixed cultures), with its own language, residents, historical biographies and autobiographies [2].
In that spirit, the Internet presents a bonafide curricular subject, one worth exploring in a formal course which, true to its own nature, should be interdisciplinary and comprehensive.
Instructors using the Internet in the classroom have to develop a curriculum based on their own Internet experiences; this curriculum contrasts to those developed in their own academic disciplines in which they had been formally trained.
www.firstmonday.dk /issues/issue4_1/hakim   (0 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
This is a list of notable phenomena specific to the Internet, such as popular themes and catchphrases, viral videos, amateur celebrities and more.
The Blair Witch Project — The first film to notably use the internet for astroturfing, its makers spread rumors the material they shot was authentic and that the three protagonists really disappeared in Burkittsville, Maryland, which caused problems for the police department of Frederick County.
Snakes on a Plane — This 2006 film starring Samuel L. Jackson became an Internet phenomenon due to the film's title and premise a year before its planned release, and before any promotional material was released.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Internet_phenomenon   (2341 words)

  
 ABC News: People of the Year: Bloggers
A blog -- short for "web log" -- is an online personal journal that covers topics ranging from daily life to technology to culture to the arts.
There are millions of blogs on the Internet -- a new one is created every seven-and-a-half seconds.
This year, for the first time, bloggers were permitted to cover the national political conventions firsthand.
abcnews.go.com /WNT/PersonOfWeek/story?id=372266&page=1   (395 words)

  
 O'Reilly Media | The Whole Internet: The Next Generation
In 1992, The Whole Internet introduced millions of readers to the new Internet phenomenon.
We don't need to convince you that the Internet is a valuable resource--whether you're a corporate attorney or a gourmet chef, you already know.
If you need to catch up with the many changes that have taken place in the last few years--if you'd like to try some of the next generation tools that are now available--The Whole Internet: The Next Generation is a book you have to read.
www.oreilly.com /catalog/twi3   (523 words)

  
 The Internet Phenomenon - Associated Content
The Internet's success and popularity is to a large degree due to its ability to hide most of this complexity and give users the illusion of a single, seamlessly connected network where the fragmented nature of the underlying infrastructure and the many layers of protocols remain largely transparent to the user.
It is the design and evolution of this large-scale, highly-engineered Internet that we use in this article as a concrete example for discussing and exploring a range of issues related to the study of complexity and robustness in technology in general, and of large-scale, communication networks in particular.
As complex engineered systems such as the Internet evolve over time, their development typically follows a spiral of increasing complexity to suppress unwanted sensitivities/vulnerabilities or to take advantage of new opportunities for increased productivity, performance, or throughput.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/22321/the_internet_phenomenon.html?page=3   (0 words)

  
 The Internet is a Global Phenomenon. | evolt.org   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Law-makers and regulators are rushing to prove their knowledge of the internet's implications by restricting them with local laws, and in the process are proving their ignorance on a daily basis.
Those who truly understand the internet cannot ignore the fact that it's an international network that cannot be regulated using national laws.
The day is rapidly coming when America will no longer dominate the internet, as American users will be a minority, and the US will not be responsible for the net's development.
www.evolt.org /node/245   (1054 words)

  
 interdisciplines : The Future of Web Publishing : A humanities approach to the Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This new phenomenon is of particular relevance for those interested in the pragmatics of communication: in every communication act, information must undergo cognitive and rhetorical processing in order to pass from a “private”, personal status, to a public one.
For example, the phenomenon of “banner blindness”, closely studied by usability experts, in which banner ads on web pages are not perceived by users, could be explained by the constraints resulting from this specific affordance of the web.
The research community has been using the Internet for a considerable time, well before the commercial explosion of the new economy and the multiplication of web sites: lists, newsgroups, ftp transfer protocols all made possible, since the Internet was first launched, important scientific exchanges as well as the transmission, sharing and archiving of research articles.
www.interdisciplines.org /defispublicationweb/papers/1   (6094 words)

  
 TxState Counseling Center - Internet Addiction   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Internet Addiction is a broad term covering a wide-variety of behaviors and impulse control problems.
Examples of Internet problems could be no job-hunting, lost sleep, ignoring real-life friends, not facing causes of anxiety or secrecy with a loved one.
Understanding the connection between denial, avoidance and escape helps Net users to be aware of their level of dependency on Internet use and the level to which they may be escaping from the hard work of being human.
www.counseling.txstate.edu /bro/internet.htm   (4835 words)

  
 info: Internet_phenomenon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
An Internet phenomenon (sometimes called an Internet meme) occurs when something relatively or completely unknown becomes hugely popular, often quite suddenly, through the mass propagation of media content made feasible by the Internet.
Mahir Çağrı (i kiss you) — A resident of İzmir, Turkey, Çağrı became an Internet celebrity in 1999, when his picture-laden homepage, which exclaimed in broken English his love of the accordion and travel, was visited by millions and spawned numerous fansites and parodies, one featured on Fox's MADtv (season 4, episode 20).
Internet phenomenon: See what people are saying right now on...
www.napoli-pizza.net /Internet_phenomenon.html   (2181 words)

  
 Frank Ahrens - The Lessons of 'Lonelygirl': We Can Be Fooled, And We Probably Don't Care - washingtonpost.com
Three months and millions of page views after lonelygirl15's debut, the most recent Internet phenomenon turned into a detective story and came to a conclusion last week.
This led the sleuths to suspect -- and post on the Internet -- that lonelygirl15 was not a real lonely girl in a bedroom but actually a marketing device.
As a coda to this whole episode, I look forward to the time when the Internet throws up a phenomenon that is not an attractive young woman behaving in a semi-provocative manner.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600105_pf.html   (745 words)

  
 Carrier strategies for internet success
Internet users have less sensitivity to delay than users in the telephony realm, where any delay longer than 250 milliseconds is considered unacceptable.
The Internet, however, has been built piecemeal by a cast of literally thousands of players, and security must be imposed by logical rather than physical means.
The Internet Is Inevitable For the foreseeable future, the Internet will continue to be a fact of life for telephony providers around the globe.
telephonyonline.com /mag/telecom_carrier_strategies_internet/index.html   (2343 words)

  
 Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Within days of posting it online, the letter became an internet phenomenon, generating tens of thousands of visits each day, as well as personal responses from the school board members themselves.
In the end, the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was released by Random House in March of 2006.
I hope that a year from now we will be recognized as a legitimate religious organization, with all the same benefits *and tax loopholes* that the mainstream religions enjoy.
www.venganza.org /about/open-letter/discussion/feed   (243 words)

  
 The Phenomenon of Internet » Netscape.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The operating system that allowed the internet to become what it is today was UNIX, not Windows.
The internet couldn't have grown nearly so quickly if it had to be constantly restarted, like early versions of Windows.
The internet is actually a series of tubes...
tech.netscape.com /story/2007/02/25/the-phenomenon-of-internet   (759 words)

  
 LifeWay: Biblical Solutions for Life - The Phenomenon of Online Affairs   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Internet is becoming a breeding ground for adultery, so say many experts who track the pattern of extramarital affairs.
The anonymity of the Internet allows them to divulge (or even create) their wildest fantasies.
Just as the Internet has become a new source of pornography for many, so it seems that it has also become a new source for affairs.
www.lifeway.com /lwc/article_main_page/0,1703,A%253D154435%2526M%253D200242%2526P%253D10%25252F6%25252F2006,00.html   (499 words)

  
 Humoro.us - a Humorous Look into Internet Pop Culture and Internet Phenomenon Resource Center - Humoro.us   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This site is a loose history of Internet related phenomenon, Internet popular culture, and other unexplainable online hilarity.
Humoro.us would like to take it's time and focus on Internet Popular culture past and present, and look ahead into the future to new and upcoming Internet phenomenon.
There are a lot of websites that are out there that help drive Internet phenomenon, or have something to do with Internet Phenomenon.
www.humoro.us /Internet-pop-culture   (295 words)

  
 Computer Communication Networks
These programs were begun in 1973, as was a prophetic effort known as "Internetting" which was intended to solve the problem of linking different kinds of packet networks together without requiring the users or their computers to know much about how packets moved from one network to another.
The Internet is truly a global infrastructure for the 21st century -- the first really new infrastructure to develop in nearly a century.
Cerf, together with Robert E. Kahn, is the co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols, and led the Internet development effort at Stanford and DARPA from 1973 to 1982.
www.cs.washington.edu /homes/lazowska/cra/networks.html   (2875 words)

  
 Internet Public Library: The IPL's Advanced Search and Site Search Help Page
There is also a description of NASA's study of this phenomenon from space.
This is a good resource to learn what creates thunderstorms and other types of weather phenomenon that result from this type of storm (e.g.
It has everything associated with the phenomenon that the six films have created.
www.ipl.org /div/searchresults/detail?words=Anomalous%20phenomenon&coll=gen   (594 words)

  
 The growing phenomenon of Internet
Describing "Internet" as a "revolution costing CAN$200 per year" that allows people to "communicate across cultures and continents," the news story goes on to tout how PCs are becoming "tools of the human spirit" instead of mere adding machines or typewriters.
The "Internet expert" shown in the clip was demonstrating how real-time chat worked while the voiceover gave details on how the Internet came into being and was growing "like an embryonic brain" at 10% per month.
While the description of the Internet back then as a "modulated anarchy" is not an unreasonable one today, the collegial nature of discourse described in the report is nowhere near as widespread now.
arstechnica.com /news.ars/post/20040124-3332.html   (361 words)

  
 Wired News: Kevin Bacon: You've Got Mail
Stanley Milgram created what is known as the "small world phenomenon," the idea that every person in the United States is connected by a chain of six people at most.
Columbia researchers are collecting demographic data to find out what barriers make it difficult for messages to get through and to deduce what strategy participants use to reach their intended target.
In a separate project, researchers at Ohio State are attempting to create a social map of the Internet.
www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,49343,00.html   (726 words)

  
 CNN.com - Blogging goes mainstream - Mar. 10, 2003
But as more people have embraced the concept, what once seemed like a passing fancy has morphed into a cutting-edge phenomenon that may provide the platform for the Internet's next wave of innovation and moneymaking opportunities.
"Just like the Internet was 10 years ago, blogging is popular with an underground culture that is doing it for the love and passion," said Tony Perkins, who edited the recently folded Red Herring technology magazine and last month launched a business blog called Always On Network.
This phenomenon is spreading largely because of inexpensive blogging software that is designed to make it easy for just about anyone to publish an online journal.
www.cnn.com /2003/TECH/internet/03/10/bloggers.ap/index.html   (1120 words)

  
 Carlsbad Current-Argus - Obama campaign becoming an Internet phenomenon
Cofer's group is just one of thousands that are springing up in a movement that has turned Obama's campaign into an Internet phenomenon, especially among students and young people.
Internet users in the past week have been introduced to "Hillcast," a campaign video showing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., seated at a table and discussing her position on Iraq.
The Alexa survey, a service of Amazon.com that tracks Internet traffic, shows that GOP contenders' websites are hardly registering on the ranking chart.
www.currentargus.com /ci_5285472   (386 words)

  
 Internet phenomenon - Everything on Internet phenomenon (information, latest news, articles,...)
It is nearly impossible to accurately measure the depth of a phenomenon's popularity, and different groups of Internet users may participate in spreading the phenomenon more than others.
Some people point to these sort of Internet phenomena as good examples of memes, or neta.
Internet - Meme - Neta - William Gibson - Novel - Pattern Recognition
www.spiritus-temporis.com /internet-phenomenon   (177 words)

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