Internet
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Twitter security tips we can learn from the Trump administration
Jan 28, 2017 6:16 am - President Donald Trump is arguably Twitter's most prominent user. But, as many outlets have reported over the past couple of days, the people operating his administratio...
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Where is online dating headed in 2017?
Jan 07, 2017 6:15 am - To add more fuel to the anti-2016 fire, dating experts are calling it a bad year for dating trends. "I wanted so bad to say something positive, but it's mostly negative,...
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6 wacky gadgets from CES 2017
Jan 07, 2017 6:13 am - The tech industry's annual Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, is known for showing off a ton of crazy gadgets, both useful and fanciful. It's easy to dismiss some ...
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The 10 most read stories on Dailyherald.com in 2016Dec 30, 2016 9:00 am - The year on dailyherald.com started with everyone trying to get rich quick by hitting the Powerball, and it ended with Bill Murray and his brothers announcing they were ...
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Q&A: OK Go on 10 years of viral videos, the internet
Dec 17, 2016 6:19 am - The first OK Go viral video was an accidental success: the band made a tape of its intentionally goofy stage dance and put it online. It was 2005, the same year that You...
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Seven ways to master your Instagram account
Dec 17, 2016 6:16 am - Instagram, at first glance, seems like a pretty simple social network: snap, post, repeat. But while the service started as a way to share artful pictures from your smar...
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Want to find a dead website? Try Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
Dec 10, 2016 6:18 am - It can be hard to find sites that have disappeared from the internet. But the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is on the verge of rolling out a feature that will make ...
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Behind Reddit's crackdown on pro-Trump board, 'most toxic users'
Dec 03, 2016 6:18 am - Very occasionally, a war on Reddit consumes everyone there. This is one of those times, and it is (in part) chief executive Steve Huffman's own doing. And now Huffman, w...
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How Wikipedia tames partisanship on the internet
Oct 29, 2016 7:10 am - The internet is dotted with cesspools, also known as comments sections. Consider, for instance, the Facebook chatter surrounding a recent New York Times article about Do...
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Essay: What the internet loses when Vine shuts down
Oct 29, 2016 7:00 am - Nothing good or simple ever survives the internet, which is presumably why Twitter is shuttering its six-second video app, Vine. Launched with one pure, uncomplicated pu...