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Map to Nowhere
The FCC has now failed twice at producing good broadband data. Time to give someone else a try.
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OsamaBinRaided.com, Going Once, Going Twice …
The flash market of Bin Laden-related URLs isn't making many people rich.
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An HTML for Numbers
Is Google's Public Data Explorer the first step toward a universal data format?
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Jesus of Wikipedia
Using Christ's page as a guide to the online encyclopedia's 10-year history.
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The Internet's Secret Back Door
Web users in the United Arab Emirates have more to worry about than having just their BlackBerries cracked.
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The Tweet Alternative
Help Slate find better words for tweet, like, and other social-media jargon.
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Broadbandits
What's wrong with the FCC's plan to bring high-speed Internet access to rural America.
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Be Like Gmail
What Facebook and other Internet companies can learn from Google's webmail service.
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Masters of the Wikiverse
Wikipedia's new editing policy isn't the end of the encyclopedia's democratic age. It's business as usual.
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No, You Can't Have My Social Security Number
Why using SSNs for identification is risky and stupid.
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Will My Video Get 1 Million Views on YouTube?
A Slate investigation reveals: not a chance.
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The Death of Windows
Step aside, bloated operating systems. The Web browser is coming to save the day.
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The Craigslist Sex Panic
How shutting down its "erotic services" section hurts prostitutes and cops.
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I'm Human, Computer, I Swear!
It's time to move beyond those squiggly letter tests that Web sites use to weed out spam.
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I See You Typing
Spying on someone by hacking into his webcam is disturbingly easy. Why don't more people do it?
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Ye Olde Social Network
Friendster is at once a thriving success and a robot-ruled ghost planet.
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Charles Darwin Tagged You in a Note on Facebook
The evolutionary roots of Facebook's "25 Things" craze.
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The 10 Things We Want To Know About "25 Random Things About Me"
A Slate reader survey: What are the origins of the Facebook phenomenon?
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Measuring the Palin Effect
Is the Alaska governor responsible for record Web traffic in September?
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Why Is the Internet So Infuriatingly Slow?
Plus, two horrible things your Internet service provider wants to do to make it speedier.
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The Lazy Man's Guide to Web 2.0
FriendFeed crawls Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube so you don't have to.
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How To Talk to a Search Engine
Three queries to help decide if Google or Cuil or Ask is right for you.
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The Search Engine Litmus Test
How do we know if a Google competitor is any good? A Slate reader contest.
