A new issue of the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence is out. Alison Powell and Victoria Nash (Oxford): The Dissenting Values at the Heart of the Internet: How Child Protection and Freedom of Expression Advocates Negotiate Shared Values and Shape the Future Internet. A review of Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Kevin Poulsen. Anti-social network: Technology meant to bring us together is turning America into a nation of narcissists. Age of the Algorithm: The all-powerful Google search has given rise to sites like eHow.com, which critics dismiss as online sweatshops. Bubble Boys: Out in Silicon Valley, the last bastion of full employment, the Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerbergs of the future are staying up all night writing code in dorms. How Google Translate works: The web giant's translation service might serve up the odd batch of nonsense, but it's still one of the smartest communication tools of all time. What will be the state of the Internet after the collapse? The suburb that changed the world: In the 1980s, Silicon Valley was populated by lefties and hippies who dreamed of a computer revolution; Jaron Lanier recalls how the internet was born. Rob Walker on the work of art in the age of Googled reproduction. From Wired, Dan Ariely on how online companies get you to share more and spend more. Does Facebook spell the end of human interaction as we know it, or is it just bad news for psychics, dating services, and women’s magazines? More and more on Eli Pariser's The Filter Bubble. Attention must be paid: Esther Dyson on how the Internet is changing how people listen. The man who would have Facebook: Is Paul Ceglia a sleazy grifter, Mark Zuckerberg's long-lost angel investor, or both?
