As 2007 drew to an end, I revisited dozens of sites to cull my favorites from the year's selections and to ponder the state of the educational Internet.
No matter your age or your level of expertise, technology changes so fast, we all need somewhere to lookup technical jargon and obscure acronyms. Today's picks are online dictionaries specializing in Internet and computer terms: some are designed for elem
Although often confused with search engines, today's featured sites are actually directories, because each and every entry is handpicked by a human, not an automated Web crawling computer program. Yes, their databases are considerably smaller than the hug
Like a missile on a radar screen, popular culture can be tracked, analyzed, ranked and rated by looking at search engine queries. Although they each parse the data a little differently, most search engines do give us a peek behind the curtain by publishin
Many radio stations can be heard over the Internet through a process called streaming. Streaming allows you to listen to a program while it is being downloaded, instead of waiting for the download to finish Without streaming, you would need to download th
Safety for kids on the Net is front-page news now that the Supreme Court has struck down the Computer Decency Act, returning sole responsibility for kids' online activities to parents. Whether or not you opt to use parental-control software, children nee
KidsCom presents ten rules for Internet safety (don't give out personal information), online manners (always be polite), and copyright law (don't use pictures from someone else's Web site).
Here you'll find five basic rules for Internet safety, followed by a wealth of other safety information presented in a question and answer format.
This page of notes and warnings is not broken down into a neat set of numbered rules, but contains wisdom such as if "looking at something on the Net makes you uncomfortable, don't look at it! The back button is your friend.
Syndicated columnist Larry Magid condenses online safety into six (often quoted) rules.
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