Crowd-Frauding: Why the Internet is Fake
Eric Hellman, Go To Hellman, February 10, 2014
The message for me in this - beyond the obvious, which is that you should take any claims about web traffic with a grain of salt - is that models built on mass will tend to fail over the long run. The reason is described in this post. More...

Map of the Internet 1.0
The9988, Deviant Art, January 31, 2014

A nice detailed map of the internet. It's worth exploring in some depth because of the wealth of detail. Don't forget to look at the ocean currents. More...

How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet
Steven Levy, Wired, January 7, 2014
Ultimately this story doesn't reveal that much, but it's a good summary of the damage done by the American NSA (National Security Agency) in a widespread spying program started during the Bush years and carried on under the Obama administration. More...

Leveraging Mobile and Wireless Internet
Good overview of the trend toward the use of mobile and wireless devices in learning, along with a set of changes developers should expect as a result of this trend. More...

From "Paperless Classroom" to "Deep Reading": Five Stages in Internet Pedagogy
The first four stages of the author's progression into the use of technology in learning are familiar to most: class management, online discussion, online texts and multimedia. But the fifth stage, deep reading, takes more explaining. More...

The End Of The Internet As We Know It…Could It Happen?
Deirdre O’Donnell, Evolving Science, 2018/06/25
Over the years news media publishers in Europe have tried repeatedly to end the practice of people linking to their stories. Their reasoning (I think) is that readers should come to the newspaper websites directly. Currently legislation being proposed is the closest yet to accomplishing this. More...

It's time to rebuild the Internet
I found myself nodding in agreement with a number of the suggestions offered by Ray Ozzie, the developer behind Notes and Groove. Something more dynamic, depending more on structured data, and less centralized. More...

Internet Trends 2018
Mary Meeker, Kleiner Perkins Partners, 2018/05/31
Mary Meeker's annual oracular tome has come out and this year it's a heavy 294 page PDF. What I'm seeing here is a mixed bag - some areas of growth are slowing and even stopping as the market approaches essential saturation. More...