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Todd Smith's Shady Venturenew

If you asked Todd Smith seven or eight years ago what he'd be doing by 2010, the words "online sunglasses entrepreneur" probably would never have come out of his mouth. But after losing his job at Merrill Lynch, he decided to turn his fashionable hobby into a new online business venture.

Pittsburgh City Paper | Charlie Deitch | 01-11-2010 | Fashion

Tags: stunners, Sunglasses, San Francisco, California, business, web, Bay Area, Pittsburgh, fashion, online

No Room for the Little Guy in Big Web?new

If Microsoft buys Yahoo to create what we'll call Microhoo, it means we'll have fewer options when it comes to online searches, using web mail, and just plain goofing around online.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Annalee Newitz | 04-16-2008 | Tech

Tags: Internet, web, Google, big media, Microsoft, yahoo, computers & technology

Here's the Rubnew

Mistress has a new favorite website, which features videos of people masturbating -- shot from the shoulders up.

Seven Days | Mistress Maeve | 01-26-2007 | Sex

Tags: Sex, porn, web

What is Your "Local Community"?new

The Supreme Court sets an impossible standard for proving threats to artistic speech on the Internet.

Metroland | Miriam Axel-Lute | 03-30-2006 | Civil Liberties

Tags: Internet, amendment, First, free, porn, S&M, speech, web

Rx for Info Overloadnew

A media critic offers a guide on how to navigate through today's information overload and become reasonably well-informed without making the quest a full-time job the way news addicts do.

The Village Voice | Sydney H. Schanberg | 07-29-2005 | Media

Tags: web, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, herd reporting, television news

Why Shoppers Ought to Think Twice About Ordering Onlinenew

Writing from prison, Internet scammer Brandon Samuel Brooks explains how, between the ages of 15 and 20, he stole about $100,000 from unsuspecting rubes over the Internet.

The Pitch | Tony Ortega | 12-13-2004 | Crime & Justice