Mar 27 Turkey moves to block YouTube following Twitter ban By News Desk A week after the Turkish government banned Twitter, authorities there moved to block online video-sharing site YouTube on Thursday. The Ankara, Turkey-based news organization Anadolu Agency reported that the national telecommunication authority had announced an “administrative block” on YouTube, though… Continue reading
May 14 Internet Cat Video Festival By Tom LeGro At the Internet Cat Video Festival in Oakland, Calif., around 6,000 people gathered on a late spring afternoon to celebrate all things feline and to watch nearly 70 minutes of hilarious cat web videos projected on a 10-story building after… Continue reading
Jul 16 Watch Pew Study: More Viewers Choose YouTube for Breaking News The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study Monday showing that news consumers are increasingly trading traditional media for YouTube. Jeffrey Brown discusses the challenges and opportunities traditional media sources now face with Pew's Tom Rosenstiel… Continue watching
Mar 08 Watch 'Kony 2012': 'Unprecedented' Viral Video's Message, Backlash Examined 'Kony 2012': 'Unprecedented' Viral Video's Message, Backlash Examined… Continue watching
Oct 07 Supporters of Assad Regime Retaliate -- on the Web Dictators in Tunisia and Egypt learned the hard way about the organizational and promotional power of social media. It's a lesson that supporters of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad have taken to heart. In recent weeks and months, as Syria… Continue reading
Sep 11 Watch 9/11 Video Quilt: Americans Consider Aftermath of 9/11 Ahead of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, The PBS NewsHour asked Americans to submit videos of their reflections on the past decade. With help from PBS member stations around the country, we created an online project called the… Continue watching
Aug 11 Watch InvisiblePeople.tv Aims to Empower Homeless Through Social Media, Tech Tools InvisiblePeople.tv Aims to Empower Homeless Through Social Media, Tech Tools… Continue watching
Jun 07 Internet Readies for Transition to IPv6 As the Internet's first major batch of IP addresses runs out, organizations worldwide are test driving a new system starting this week. CNET's Molly Wood explains what the transition to IPv6 means. Continue reading
May 19 Watch Mark Kelly Followed Wife Giffords' Latest Surgery From Space NASA's space shuttle Endeavour launched Monday on a 16-day mission to the International Space Station. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien posed crowdsourced questions to the commander and crew early Thursday in a collaboration with Google and YouTube. Here is an excerpt. Continue watching
May 10 Watch What's Behind Microsoft's Decision to Buy Skype? Microsoft announced Tuesday it was purchasing the Internet telephone service Skype in a deal valued at $8.5 billion. Jeffrey Brown discusses the deal with The Washington Post's Technology Reporter Cecilia Kang. Continue watching