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The Internet is filling up

Gerald R. Faulhaber (Penn): Economics of Net Neutrality: A Review. Angela Daly (EUI): Recent Issues for Competition on the Internet: Google's Search and Advertising, the Apple App Store, and the AOL Huffington Post Merger. How Google dominates us: James Gleick reviews In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy; The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry) by Siva Vaidhyanathan (and more by Evgeny Morozov); Search and Destroy: Why You Can’t Trust Google Inc. by Scott Cleland with Ira Brodsky; and I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 by Douglas Edwards (and more and more and more and more and more). Is Google ruining your memory? (and more and more) It's like the difference between public and private school: Facebook and Google have very different vibes. The Blogfather: MetaFilter founder Matt Haughey put the blog in blogosphere — now he looks to the future. From Prospect, two decades of the web, a utopia no longer: Evgeny Morozov traces the development of the web from the laboratories of the Cold War to the world of venture capital and big money; and is the Internet a free-for-all? The Internet's breakneck expansion poses questions for its future. Web 3.0: An article on the "social wave" and how it disrupts the Internet. The Internet is filling up with dead people and there's nothing we can do about it. Don't let the trolls get you down: Internet trolls are maddening, but a lecturer has set up a guide to interacting with them (and more on the rise of the meta-troll). Can anyone create a hacker-proof cyberspace? The Autistic Hacker: Gary McKinnon hacked thousands of government computers. Marissa Mayer on the day she "broke" the Internet.