Is a government Web site more like a bus or a park? How you
answer this question is likely to determine how you feel about
the idea of government agencies selling advertising space on
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At its recent meeting in Marina Del Rey, California, the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced that ".info",
".biz" and ".name" as well as four other top-level domain names
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Lamentations on the state of American politics often take the
following form: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln or Theodore
Roosevelt would never make it to the White… more
In the days before Web addresses were
as ubiquitous as McDonald's, the Internet was imagined as a
lawless badlands. Rogues and bandits would soon terrorize cyberspace
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The future of governance was recently
on display in Yokohama, Japan. It was not a World's Fair, a
U.N. conference or an international exposition. Rather, it was
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I'm a pretty Net-savvy guy. I read my
morning newspaper online. I buy discount airline tickets online.
I participate in animated sports banter online. I even manage
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Several years ago I was driving cross-country from Washington to Berkeley. My D.C. license plates inevitably sparked interesting political discussions along the way, especially … more
