Story of the Year: Newspapers and the Internet

Scott Bradner, Network World

As the year winds down I’ve been trying to decide how to summarize it Internet-wise. But it seems to me that the continuing saga of the news business symbolizes yet another year of close-to-terminal, Internet-induced confusion for traditional businesses — or, maybe, panic.

Google slashes the Internet

By Robert X. Cringely
February 2, 2009 (InfoWorld) If the world ever needed proof that it’s Google’s Web and we just surf on it, we got it in spades last Saturday morning when the Search Engine That Roared declared the entire Internet one steaming fetid pile of manure.