Earthlink is busy turning all those dreams of free municipal WiFi into broken promises. Both the municipal deal they signed in Philly and the one they’ve joined in San Francisco (with Google) carry user price tags. In Philly they say…

News of the Civil Rights lawsuit aimed at making Craigslist mediate its listings has hit The New York Times. The Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law says that the company’s current ads often violate laws against non-discrimination….

Another of those political-historical things. Move along, oh lovers of tech stuff. (That’s the 1966 Buick Chevy Impala to the left.) It disturbs me when people ignore history, even the history they themselves have seen. Like Brit Hume today saying…

One of the great absurdities of the “intelligent design” debate is when someone says “science says.” Scientists say a lot of things. Scientists agree (and sometimes disagree). The consensus among scientists is what science “teaches.” But that consensus can change,…

Those of you under 30 may never have heard of Dennis Hayes. But once he was somebody. I knew him. His was one of the first tech stories I wrote in Atlanta, back in 1982. Dennis Hayes made modems. His…

Yahoo tried to draw some favorable press coverage today. (That’s actress Charlize Theron, but she’s very small, hard to recognize. That’s deliberate, as you’ll see.) In the wake of a scandal over the fact its Chinese affiliate cooperated with…

During Mao’s Cultural Revolution, show trials were used to cover-up the evils of the regime. Innocent parties were brought in, tried without justice, then either killed or sent to “re-education” camps. The U.S. House held its own version of such…

Slate has another of those “blog bubble about to pop” stories out. (The doll’s name is pimple, available here. We are not into grossing y’all out here at Mooreslore.) As a business story it may be 100% accurate. As a…

I’ve been writing for over 40 years, professionally for 30. If you’re interested in doing the same, here’s a simple four-step process that will make your writing all it can be. Writing is easy to learn, easy to do. But…

News that David Edmondson, the CEO of Radio Shack, had to quit after a week because he phonied-up his resume was sad to read. The more I thought about the story, the sadder I got. That’s because Radio Shack had…

Google’s Image Search service is illegal. U.S. District Judge Harold Matz of Los Angeles delivered this stunner in a suit originally filed by a porn firm, Perfect 10. At issue is the Google Image Search caching and delivery of “thumbnail”…

Generally, political issues involving the Internet are handled by elites. Voters don’t understand things like the “Brand X” decision, or the ICANN mess. All they care about is that the resource is there when they want it, at some price…

On another list I’ve been discussing the nefarious Bell plan to kill the Internet by hoarding digital bandwidth. Bruce Kushnick’s e-book, “The $200 Billion Broadband Scandal,” is fascinating in this regard. But what if the Bells aren’t solely to blame?…

Spam is back in politics. But this time, the industry insists, it’s different. This time it’s e-mail marketing. Leading the charge is an outfit called Advocacy Inc., headed by Roger Alan Stone (he uses Alan so you won’t confuse him…

By ignoring what blogging is about, The Wall Street Journal has created a scandal out of whole cloth. Here’s the conflation, in a nutshell. Journalists can blog, and blogs can be journalism. Thus many journalists assume all blogging is journalism….