Web Scout
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With this column, Web Scout moves from Sunday to daily Calendar.
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The startup allows video from cellphones to be streamed live on the Web. In the future, will any bad behavior may go unnoticed?
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Forget due process. Online hordes act like judge and jury.
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The website is awash in video, few interesting. Anyone can watch, but the site proves that there is anonymity in numbers.
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A blogger threatens suicide. She later claims it was art, but did it become too real even for her?
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The Washington Post Co.’s latest online venture targets a black audience, drawing from its own media properties but linking to too little else.
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Facebook users, angry at being turned into junk-mail senders, prompt a change.
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Celebrity death: No other kind of event electrifies and illuminates so many parts of the Internet at once.
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Virtual ‘primaries’ are popular with users, and campaigns take note.
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Websites help Scrabble players make sense out of their seemingly hopeless jumbles.
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Things happen fast on the Internet. Here’s how the future is shaping up.
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As the stakes rise, companies find controversial ways to boost the bottom line.
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Why don’t striking writers create original online programming that could bolster their cause and show the medium’s true potential?
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What’s wrong with this picture?
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Hollywood is wading cautiously in to the wide world of webisodes.
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Can you believe GodTube.com?
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As the 6-year-old encyclopedia project begins shifting from adding articles to pruning them back, arguments ensue, and it isn’t pretty. Just ask its founder -- and victim.
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Images of UFOs, purportedly videotaped in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, have Internet viewers watching and debating.
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Collaborative music sites make finding bandmates easier than ever.
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Plant your pedigree and watch it grow by building a bridge to thousands of relatives.
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The video site goes polyglot, tailoring itself and video lists to fit nine nations.
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Free design tools make for program mashups that are more killer than the sums of their apps -- or at least funnier.
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Vintage shows and commercials are winding up on the Web, bringing forth cheers and legal claims.
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There’s real money in the virtual hills of Entropia Universe; just ask club impresario NeverDie.
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As more advertisers stick their necks out online while paying off popular posters, some site surfers are screaming ‘Sellout!’
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Despite the MPAA and the Swedish police, the Pirate Bay’s file-sharing ways are popular.
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Artists who document their lives by taking a self-portrait a day can condense years into a few minutes of video.
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The video blog Rocketboom had advertising, a big audience and world domination in its sights. The split of its creative team has proven rancorous.
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Face time? It’s so 2006. Now users can webcam their way to the virtual world, live and uncut.
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All is not always what it seems in cyberspace, as visits to a couple of sites aptly illustrated. Beware the ‘Wig Out’ virus.
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HBO’s “Viral Videos Live” brings Internet acts worth millions and millions of hits together in Las Vegas.
