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News.com talk: 'The Future of the Internet -- and How to Stop It'
(Credit: Declan McCullagh/News.com ). SAN FRANCISCO--In a first for News.com, we hosted Oxford University's Jonathan Zittrain on Wednesday evening in a public talk here in our offices. Zittrain has a book coming out next ...

Google Gadgets go cross-platform
Google Gadgets are now available on both PC and Mac platforms.

Yahoo, Adobe team on PDF ads
Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo lets PDF publishers monetize ads.

Enough to make me (almost) love Mitt Romney
"Like all Americans we love our sports teams and hate the Yankees." Last line in tonight's Republican debate, delivered by Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts.

The HD is woking!
The receiver is working with the cheap antenna that it ships with. Here's a screen shot from a PBS program about Mexico. Look at how sharp it is. Now I have to figure out how to get the EyeTV software to record shows in the future. ...

joel.reddit.com
Joel Spolsky has the Digg-clone I envisioned for Scripting News.

Phoenix news team "investigates" new teachers' MySpace pages
Most college students use online social networks, so most new teachers will have social network profiles. And yes, some of the MySpace and Facebook pages will still bear traces of sophomoric behavior on them, given that these new ...

News.com talk: 'The Future of the Internet -- and How to Stop It'
At our SF headquarters this evening, News.com hosted Oxford's Jonathan Zittrain, who warned that the Internet is becoming endangered by restrictive tools and rash approaches to security challenges.

GOP candidates under the gun in CNN-YouTube debate
The eight presidential hopefuls faced wide-ranging questions from online videos featuring all manner of props--from shotguns to Bibles to ears of corn--but no animated snowmen this time.

MSN's 'stuffing the tail back into the head' strategy
MSN doesn't think the portal is dead. Quite the opposite, in fact, says its chief media officer.