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		<title>People Are Buying Boston Marathon Bombing Domain Names and Putting Them Up for Auction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boston Marathon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a high-profile act of violence occurs, certain reactions are predictable. The White House will respond with a sober statement. Reporters will throw themselves into hyperdrive. And people will start buying up domain names. Just as after 9/11 and the death of Osama bin Laden, you can now find web addresses related to this week’s unforgettable event on registrar auction sites. Go Daddy, the largest domain name registrar, tells TIME that on Monday it saw a 430% increase in registrations that included words such as Boston, marathon and bomb. The next day, that spiked to 555%. By Friday morning, as the manhunt in Boston took over televisions and drove residents into their homes, domain names related to the suspects were for sale: thetsarnaevbrothers.info was listed in Go Daddy’s auction forum at $2,000. On Thursday evening, interested parties could find names such as bostonmarathonmassacre.com, listed at $40, or explosionsatbostonmarathon.com, listed at $99. And though the prices were changed by Friday morning, some sellers had tagged their new commodities with hefty prices: bostonmarathonheroes.com had a starting bid of $3,500. If bidders chose to “buy now,” bostonmarathonvictimsfund.com could be theirs for $10,000. The ostensible motive for those snatching up the domain names, many of whom buy their goods by proxy so that their personal names aren’t associated with the registration record, is to make money off of an event that is dominating the news. But Internet domain name attorney Ari Goldberger says those plans are unlikely to pan out. “It’s a crazy phenomenon,” he says. “These names have very little value … No one’s going to buy a domain name for $10,000.” Few people would think to type in a domain name related to the event instead of searching for keywords associated with it, he says. And that inclination will likely be lessened as the news story fades into the past. “Of course, a tragic event like this is a huge event. But it’s a passing event,” he says. “In six months, are people really going to be typing this in? No, I<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160674&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>States Rush to Ban Employers from Asking for Social Media Passwords</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should your boss ever have access to your Facebook page? What about a prospective boss? Or your school administrator? via States Rush to Ban Employers from Asking for Social Media Passwords &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159846&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hallowed Be Thy Name: Ron Paul Tries to Retrieve RonPaul.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Texas Rep. Ron Paul is waging a fight to wrest his namesake Web address from the current owners. It’s harder than it sounds… Hallowed Be Thy Name: Ron Paul Tries to Retrieve RonPaul.com &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158492&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your Digital Legacy: States Grapple with Protecting Our Data After We Die</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/29/digital-legacy-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who is allowed to read through your e-mails — or update your Facebook page — when you die? In many states across the U.S., there are no clear answers to such basic legal questions. That’s why Cynthia Creem, along with numerous other policymakers nationwide, is fighting to bring clarity to the high-tech confusion. A Massachusetts state senator, Creem proposed a bill this year that would give executors access to e-mail accounts of the deceased. “You would certainly have access to somebody’s desk,” Creem says. “Why should this be any different?” Her bill would make Massachusetts the sixth state to put a “digital asset” law on the books. But tech companies are wary of new privacy-related legislation — and in this case, Google hired a lobbyist to oppose it. (MORE: 2012 Tech Gift Guide) A question increasingly on the minds of lawyers, academics and legislators is how to deal with the ever expanding digital footprints we leave behind when we die. High-profile showdowns over online accounts have often pitted bereaved parents against industry behemoths armed with terms-of-service agreements, those novella-length contracts that everyone checks and no one reads. But now that baby boomers are moving online too, this probate problem will become much more widespread: by one estimate, 580,000 Facebook users will have died this year in the U.S. alone. Creem’s colleagues clearly share her concern: Massachusetts legislators unanimously passed her bill in the senate this June. Meanwhile, bar associations from Oregon to Nebraska are drafting their own measures outlining whether these e-things are bound. What qualifies as a digital asset? “Anything that we store online, on our computers or in a cloud that might have value,” says George Washington University law professor Naomi Cahn. “It’s not just financial value. It’s also emotional, personal value.” That definition covers everything from domain names to Twitter handles, apps to frequent-flyer miles — or perhaps, to cite a favorite example of Cahn’s, the virtual sword used in video game Age of Wulin that sold at an auction for $16,000. “Everyone is basically moving their lives online,” says Marc Rotenberg, executive<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=152341&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting Online Assets: 9 Ways to Safeguard Your Digital Legacy</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/29/digital-legacy-assets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just because you don’t know how “the Twitter” works, don’t think you’re off the hook. Planning for digital assets is something that anyone crafting a will—or power of attorney—should consider these days, particularly given that laws vary state by state and an increasing number of families are finding themselves locked out of their loved one’s accounts. (Read TIME’s full report on the legislative rush to protect your digital legacy) Here are nine easy tips for protecting your online identity: 1. Make a list. A digital asset is considered anything you access online, on your computer or in a cloud that has emotional or financial value. A few examples might include: email and social media accounts; digital photo albums or movie collections; video game avatars; domain names; online subscriptions; online investment accounts; even frequent flyer miles. Keep in mind that others might value some of your digital assets differently; emails could seem worthless to you, for instance, while they’d be treasures for loved ones or keys to managing your estate. (MORE: Tech Buyer&#8217;s Guide for 2012) 2. Cast a wide digital net when planning. Maybe you use automatic, paperless billing for your cell phone. Maybe you have a PayPal account that will need to be closed. Maybe you use a regional bank for your online checking account. That may not fall under the strict umbrella of “cataloging digital assets,” but while you’re racking your brain, jot those details down along with your other usernames, passwords and answers to security questions. Leaving your representative instructions for anything and everything will make the transition easier—and be a helpful reminder about what needs to be managed. 3. Know the law where you live. Or at least make sure you consult an attorney who does. Five states have laws that help representatives gain access to digital assets: Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Oklahoma and Rhode Island. And many more states have bills in the works. So far, those laws are far from uniform, some covering only email, others everything down to “micro-blogging.” Estate law, on the whole, varies<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=152336&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cell Phone Woes: America&#8217;s 10 Worst Cities for Mobile Phone Reception</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/08/20/can-you-hear-me-now-the-10-u-s-cities-with-the-worst-cell-phone-reception/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Tech Special]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cell phone users, are you plagued by dropped calls? Is your download speed slow as molasses? Does using your mobile phone often involve leaning out a window? Well, that could be because you live in one of the ten following U.S. cities. As part of TIME’s look at how wireless technology is changing our lives, we partnered with data firm OpenSignalMaps to find out which places with populations over 250,000 had the spottiest service.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=143376&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chart: Dating in the Texting Era</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/08/17/chart-dating-in-the-texting-era/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our Wireless Issue, TIME examines how mobile technology is changing everything from politics to health care. But as anyone who's young and single knows, it's also affecting the dating game—largely because of texting.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=143300&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Company Tries to Make Airport Movie Rentals Fly</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/14/company-tries-to-make-airport-movie-rentals-fly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Digiboo might sound like an online dating site for hip-hop enthusiasts, but it’s actually one of the latest players getting into the video market. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company produces kiosks where people can rent or buy movies via flash drive, and the first went live at the Minneapolis airport this week.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=123239&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Products at the Smithsonian</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Smithsonian National Museum of American History doesn’t have a sample of every product Steve Jobs ever touched. Their concern is with the larger picture of how technology develops and what part that subplot plays in American history. Items in the science collection span from the 11th century to the 21st, and about 130 Apple-related pieces have made the cut. That includes everything from manuals to advertising to computers and those trademark white earbuds. I took a tour with curator Peggy Kidwell to view some of these, as well as other contraptions that could be classified as items in a Steve Jobs Smithsonian Collection.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99426&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Settles With FTC Over Privacy Complaint</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/11/twitter-settles-with-ftc-over-privacy-complaint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The charge was serious: that Twitter on more than one occasion told consumers that the company was protecting their privacy when they, in fact, were not. Which is where the hackers come in. Specifically, the FTC alleged that due to &#8220;serious lapses&#8221; in security, hackers obtained &#8220;unauthorized administrative control of Twitter, including both access to non-public user information and tweets that consumers had designated as private, and the ability to send out phony tweets from any account.&#8221; (Non-public user information includes things like email addresses, IP addresses and private messages.) According to the FTC, the hackers gained control of Twitter on two occasions between January and May of 2009. And today, after many months of consideration, the FTC and Twitter came to an agreement over the incident. Under the terms of the settlement, &#8220;Twitter will be barred for 20 years from misleading consumers about the extent to which it protects the security, privacy, and confidentiality of nonpublic consumer information&#8230;.&#8221; The company also must &#8220;establish and maintain a comprehensive information security program, which will be assessed by an independent auditor every other year for 10 years.&#8221; Twitter officially admits no wrongdoing, but failing to live up to terms of the settlement could cost them as much as $16,000 per violation. More on TIME.com: Senators Write to Facebook&#8217;s Zuckerberg To Reconsider Privacy Changes How to Opt Out of Everything Online Loving and Hating Twitter&#8217;s New Quick Bar<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=70116&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q: Which Has Shorter Shelf-Life: E-Books or Chocolate Syrup?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/02/28/q-which-has-shorter-shelf-life-e-books-or-chocolate-syrup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A. If the book in question is a library e-book from HarperCollins, you should be putting your money on Hershey&#8217;s. The Library Journal broke the news on Friday that all new e-books licensed from that publisher &#8212; which brought us such modern classics as Sarah Palin’s America By Heart and Justin Halpern’s Sh*t My Dad Says &#8212; will be good for 26 checkouts before the license expires. Part of their logic is that 26 boomerangs is the equivalent of about one year for popular titles, assuming the average checkout time is two weeks per bookworm. (Chocolate syrup, meanwhile, will stay good in your pantry for almost twice that long.) Many bookworms, however, aren’t pleased by this policy, and some are even trying to organize boycotts of the publisher until limits are removed completely. At first glance, that kind of knee-jerk reaction seems par for the course in our age of digital entitlement, with many holding tight to the sentiment that creative works, copyrighted or no, should be free and unabridged. But this case is a little different, of course, given that we’re talking about institutions that make a habit of giving things away for free. And libraries already have in place some protective policies for publishers, such as limiting checkouts of e-books to one person at a time. That said, the policy-makers at HarperCollins shouldn’t be tarred as completely unreasonable hoarders of words. Tangible books have a limited bookshelf lifespan &#8212; even if it would almost always be much longer than a year &#8212; so it seems fair that electronic titles would have some replacement potential, too. This rule would only apply to new titles, meaning anything out there now will stay out there indefinitely. And there are other publishers who refuse to dabble in the e-lending game at all. Like all other media going digital, the transition for books is an awkward convergence of demands for business and pleasure. And while some are calling this policy an example of corporate selfishness, others are viewing it as a nice bit<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=68281&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dictionary Update: Welcome to English 2.0</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/02/28/dictionary-update-welcome-to-english-2-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As our software gets updates, so does that old-fashioned gum-flappin’ language we use to describe our techy lives. To that end, Oxford Dictionaries Online has expanded their database, giving us definitions of terms from clickjacking to bloggable. First, a snippet of the tech-world words coming online: bandwidth (secondary definition): the energy or mental capacity required to deal with a situation bounce rate: the percentage of visitors to a particular website who navigate away from the site after viewing only one page clickjacking: the malicious practice of manipulating a website user&#8217;s activity by concealing hyperlinks beneath legitimate clickable content, thereby causing the user to perform actions of which they are unaware feature phone: a mobile phone that incorporates features such as the ability to access the Internet and store and play music but lacks the advanced functionality of a smartphone onliner: a person who is online; an Internet user scareware: malicious computer programs designed to trick a user into buying and downloading unnecessary and potentially dangerous software, such as fake antivirus protection sexting: the sending of sexually explicit photographs or messages via mobile phone The definition of such words might, especially from the savvy onliner, elicit a reaction of “Well, duh.” But moving the technology sphere and the linguistic sphere together signals that&#8211;if there was any doubt left&#8211;the electronic world is not a separate one but part of our standard one. Especially telling are definitions like bandwidth’s secondary one. Rather than describing technology in human-experience terms&#8211;like say, a World Wide Web&#8211;we’ve come full circle. Now we’re explaining our human experiences in technological terms. As in, “Dude, I don’t have the bandwidth to deal with contemplating the size of the universe.” Somewhere in the world, people are probably already describing their one-night stands as bounce rates or getting parents to unknowingly sign a permission slip as clickjacking. And it will be self-propelling. As linguist Benjamin Whorf said, “Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.” (For a full list of the new terms added, head here.)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=68180&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle Update: Page Numbers, More Ways to (Over-)Share</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/02/09/kindle-update-page-numbers-more-ways-to-over-share/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon is giving their Kindle a makeover with a little something old and lot of somethings new. First, the throwback. The most buzz-worthy change coming in the latest update is the addition of “real” page numbers, a quiet homage to the e-reader’s predecessor. By popular demand, the 3.1 version software will display the page number that corresponds to the same the location in a print edition when a reader presses the “Menu” button. These old-fashioned markers will show up alongside those new-fangled location numbers that correspond to each line of text and are displayed at the bottom of the screen. Of course, this doesn’t make for a perfect symbiosis between the e-reader and any old paperback. Only some Kindle books will have corresponding page data, and then that will be data for one edition of a book. This means that if your goal is to know exactly where you are when switching mediums, you could still be left doing some page-thumbing. A quick search on Amazon shows, for example, various editions of Moby Dick that have 656 pages, 570 pages, 464 pages, and 767 pages &#8212; just on the first page of results. That said, for book-lovers uncomfortable with making the switch or book-clubbers hungry for cross-referencing, this is certainly a start. And it will at least give students a way to prove that they&#8217;re not just making up their citations (e.g., &#8220;The pathos Melville evokes at location 5132 &#8230;&#8221;). (More on Time.com: Where to Find the Best Free E-Books) The rest of the updates being highlighted are less about the “book” portion of the Kindle and more about the “electronic.” There is a “Public Notes” function that allows Kindlers to share their insights and highlights via social media. And there’s a “Before You Go” function that will be available at the end of the book, prompting readers to give the work an out-of-five star rating and/or tell people how they’re feeling at the precise moment of their successful book completion. And finally, there will be snazzier navigation tools for<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=66213&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Community Wireless: Your Next Hot Hookup?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/02/03/is-community-wireless-access-gaining-traction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Municipal and community wireless gurus convened in Washington, D.C. this week &#8212; via old-fashioned chairs and, of course, Skype &#8212; to discuss the state of alternative Web networks. The events in Egypt, where citizens had their Internet snatched away in the wake of protests, gave them a good soapbox to stand on to suggest the embrace of new technology models for getting online (the kind that can’t be shut down with one man’s instruction to go ahead and flip that switch). Community wireless is a by-the-people, for-the-people approach to making broadband accessible and affordable. And municipal wireless is a sort of cousin, managed by the local government for the people. In the U.S., such networks are often cast as a means of helping minority or low-income or rural populations get their hands on broadband. (Spreading Internet access is a pet cause of the Obama administration.) At other times community and municipal wireless are used to deck out public and private spaces &#8212; making Internet access available in a park, say &#8212; or to bypass the commercial service providers that have a pretty strong, expensive stranglehold on the Net. All of the speakers at Tuesday&#8217;s hearing were advocates brought together by the New America Foundation, a think tank committed, amongst other things, to closing the digital divide. The truly idealistic, which many present were, see these networks as a means for increasing civic engagement among the technologically savvy, as well as those who would like to be so savvy. “It’s a way to sort of leverage the technology to build a stronger community,” says Ben Lennett, a policy analyst at New America. As people build their own local intranets, full of custom content and applications, or invest in the network’s hardware and become part-owners, a little broadband can become a very social thing, he says. (Gwen Shaffer, who presented European case studies, told the rather adorable story of one community-network clan who went abroad on missionary-style trips to set up mesh networks.) It’s hard to do a rundown of pros and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=65559&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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