Christopher S. Yoo (Penn): Cloud Computing: Architectural and Policy Implications; and Is the Internet a Maturing Market? If So, What Does that Imply? Robert A. Heverly (Albany): Breaking the Internet: International Efforts to Play the Middle Against the Ends: A Way Forward. From IEEE Spectrum, a special report on the Social Web. Geoff Maslen on the answer to why people blog. If you think about how the social media environment works, it’s easy to wonder if Facebook can really go the distance. The Making of Diaspora: Armed with Google technologies, four young coders are planting the seeds for the post-Facebook future. From Wired, does Quora really have all the answers? Envisioning the omnipresent, benevolent Internet of the future — is it a force for good? An interview with Steven Levy, author of In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives. Charles Petersen reviews The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry) by Siva Vaidhyanathan (and more and more). Mathew Ingram on the rise of the “Second Internet” and what it means. Lore Sjoberg goes undercover at an unregulated content farm. From Steve Jobs down to the janitor: How Apple, America's most successful — and most secretive — big company, really operates. The Hacker Wars: The computer nerds who defend us from cyberattack are the new Navy SEALs. Jim Holt reviews The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. Maria Bustillos on Wikipedia and the death of the expert. What happens when you mix the ambition of Arianna Huffington with the desperation of Tim Armstrong? AOL shareholders will soon find out. An interview with Eli Pariser, author of The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You (and more and more). Your digital legacy: Your photos, status updates and tweets will fascinate future historians — will these online remains last forever? A UN report declares Internet access a human right.
