Reporter Eric Shackle interviews Maria Amelia, 95.  She talks about life and the Internet.  Read the interview here.

 

Brian Bergstein (Associated Press) writes:

"Forget windows, folders and boxes that pop up with text. When students in Thailand, Libya and other developing countries get their $150 computers from the One Laptop Per Child project in 2007, their experience will be unlike anything on standard PCs."

Read the full news article.

 

 

New Yorker's Nicholas Lemann (Issue of 2006-08-07) looks at Internet journalism, he writes :

 

"On the Internet, everybody is a millenarian. Internet journalism, according to those who produce manifestos on its behalf, represents a world-historical development—not so much because of the expressive power of the new medium as because of its accessibility to producers and consumers." Full article here.

This week's New Yorker has an in-depth article by John Cassidy on what he labels as "Me Media" and the explosion of Internet sites tailored to creating personalized extensions of the self on the web. Unfortunately, the article is not available online, but the article is so good I would reccomend that you pick the issue up at the news stand.

A homeless woman in London has been living in a car since last summer. But by writing a blog she has put herself in touch with an international audience. Full article here.