Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with internet http://salem-news.com 2007 We have had the pleasure and great fortune of adding new writers to our staff page in recent weeks and months. It is good news as Salem-News.com continues to climb in the Web ranking scale at a phenomenal pace that is both fast and serious. The growth we are seeing continues to render our promotional materials invalid, such problems! Along with a soaring online presence, our group of contributors has expanded, and the people we have added are fantastic additions because they are all specialized writers who deliver something that we didn't have already. http://salem-news.com/articles/march142010/staff-additions-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march142010/staff-additions-tk.php Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:45:00 PDT I am pleased to announce the re-launch of the Intifada-Palestine website with a brand-new design. It’ll be easier to navigate, allow for more interaction, and above all it will reflect the giant leap our readers have allowed us to make into the blogosphere since January 2009. The site began as a pro-Palestine Blog managed by a single person trying to satiate a need for truth in a world typified by inconsistencies, propaganda and outright lies against the Palestinian people. http://salem-news.com/articles/march112010/new-intifada-ef.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march112010/new-intifada-ef.php Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:03:00 PST Terrors reigns in the news media in Tamaulipas, a northeastern state that borders Texas, after more violent clashes between drug traffickers and after reports – not all confirmed – of a total of eight journalists being kidnapped or disappearing. The staff of newsrooms refuse to talk for fear of reprisals. “We don’t want to die,” is the typical response. http://salem-news.com/articles/march112010/mexican-press.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march112010/mexican-press.php Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:42:00 PST For nearly six years, Salem-News.com has been a constant in the Willamette Valley. The first independently owned online news group in the Nation, Salem-News.com has grown from an idea to a mainstay in homes and offices across America, and around the world. Today, according to Alexa.com, the small upstart of a news company has surpassed the Gannett-owned Salem based newspaper, The Statesman Journal, in online ranking. http://salem-news.com/articles/march102010/salem-news_beats_sj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march102010/salem-news_beats_sj.php Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:55:00 PST I have never met the producers of the documentary "Loose Change", but I would call their movie the definitive program detailing the problems behind the official story of the events of September 11th 2001. I have been watching it for years, from the earliest edition, to the latest, which is finely polished and the product of even more time, research and investment. http://salem-news.com/articles/march092010/loose-change-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march092010/loose-change-tk.php Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:47:00 PST YouTube is playing God with media content and their skills in investigating complaints against users like Salem-News.com are non-existent, or severely lacking. They don't hesitate to issue threats like: "Strike 1" and "Strike 2" to define our "offenses". I've played baseball, I know where this leaves us. http://salem-news.com/articles/march092010/youtube-threats-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march092010/youtube-threats-tk.php Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:44:00 PST How could 200 thousand tons of steel drop to the ground in under 11 seconds because of a fire? Over a thousand architects and engineers say that it simply cannot happen, at least not the way it happened on September 11th. http://salem-news.com/articles/march022010/rtv-911-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march022010/rtv-911-tk.php Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:33:00 PST In the digital era, news has become omnipresent. Americans access it in multiple formats on multiple platforms on myriad devices. The days of loyalty to a particular news organization on a particular piece of technology in a particular form are gone. http://salem-news.com/articles/march022010/pew_internet_news.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march022010/pew_internet_news.php Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:28:00 PST 19-year old Anthony Stancl of New Berlin, Wisconsin showed no emotion last week as he received a 15 year prison sentence for blackmailing dozens of classmates to have sex acts with him, according to news sources. He could have been sentenced up to 30 years. In December, he pleaded no contest to two felonies, including repeated sexual assault of a child. http://salem-news.com/articles/march012010/sex_blackmail.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march012010/sex_blackmail.php Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:26:00 PST Internet: No media in history has offered business so much in the way of advertising, for so little. There are good investments and there are bad ones, but if you know what you are looking for, you can get the name of your business in front of thousands for a fraction of what it costs to place an ad in a newspaper or on television. http://salem-news.com/articles/february262010/internet-advertising-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february262010/internet-advertising-tk.php Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:21:00 PST TALKERS Magazine names Thom Hartmann #10 on the "Heavy Hundred," its list of the 100 most important radio talk show hosts in America, and the only progressive host in the top ten. In recent weeks, THE THOM HARTMANN PROGRAM began airing in afternoon drive time on New York City's WWRL-AM 1600 which now springboards the show into the nation's top radio market. http://salem-news.com/articles/february242010/hartmann_top.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february242010/hartmann_top.php Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:38:00 PST Salem-News.com has seen Internet traffic spike in recent weeks, as well as heightened rankings in the U.S. and on a worldwide level, according to Alexa.com. Salem-News.com now has an Alexa World Traffic Rank of 94,094, and has seen the U.S. Traffic Rank grow to 20,593. Our 5/10 page ranking on Google continues, which is an extremely positive example of what five and a half years of daily news can mean. http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/snc_update.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/snc_update.php Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:59:00 PST Tonight at 9:00 p.m. ET, the President will give his first State of the Union Address. He says he will talk directly to the American people about restoring security for middle class families after a lost decade of declining wages, eroding retirement security and escalating health care and tuition costs. http://salem-news.com/articles/january272010/state_union.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january272010/state_union.php Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:41:00 PST It’s coming up a year since I first started writing for Salem-News. I’d like to explain, to the open-minded and receptive readers of goodwill, what I’m doing and why I’m doing it. I write, basically, because I have no choice. http://salem-news.com/articles/january262010/salemnews_tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january262010/salemnews_tk.php Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:37:00 PST Prineville, Oregon will be the home of Facebook's first Customer data center. It will employ construction crews in the beginning and around 35 permanent employees after completion. News released about this development today by Facebook's Jonathan Heiliger, the group's vice president of technical operations, is well received by elected officials like Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, who applauded today’s announcement by Facebook, Inc. about the LEED certified data center in Prineville. http://salem-news.com/articles/january212010/facebook.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january212010/facebook.php Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:54:00 PST WE are back up, working on a new look and will come back swinging for the fence. Thank you all for your loyalty and patience. We certainly angered someone. Over the past few days, we had received warnings to “back off” from sources around the world and some here at home. We are more than a bit unlikely to do that. With news being such as it is, worthless drivel peddled by... http://salem-news.com/articles/january162010/vt_hack_gd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january162010/vt_hack_gd.php Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:36:00 PST McAfee Labs has been working around the clock, diving deep into the attack we are now calling Aurora that hit multiple companies and was publicly disclosed by Google on Tuesday. We are working with multiple organizations that were impacted by this attack as well as the government and law enforcement. http://salem-news.com/articles/january142010/mcafee_gk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january142010/mcafee_gk.php Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:40:00 PST Google's announcement this week that it will quit filtering its Web-based searches in China and may leave the country altogether may affect the operations of other foreign firms in China, sources said. “Google has posed a tremendous challenge to the Chinese government,” Internet research expert Isaac Mao said on Twitter. http://salem-news.com/articles/january132010/china_rfa.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january132010/china_rfa.php Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:21:00 PST Reporters Without Borders hails US Internet giant Google’s announcement yesterday that it will stop censoring the Chinese version of its search engine, Google.cn – a move that could lead to Google.cn’s closure and Google’s withdrawal from the Chinese market. The company said it took the decision following sophisticated cyber-attacks on Gmail accounts coming from China. http://salem-news.com/articles/january132010/china_rfp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january132010/china_rfp.php Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:11:00 PST Amnesty International has again urged the Chinese authorities to end censorship of the internet. The matter hit the news after online firm Google raised concern about the hacking of human rights activists’ email accounts. http://salem-news.com/articles/january132010/china_ai.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january132010/china_ai.php Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:03:00 PST Thank God for Helen Thomas, the only person to show any courage at the White House press briefing after President Barack Obama gave a flaccid account of the intelligence screw-up that almost downed an airliner on Christmas Day. It took this 89-year old veteran correspondent to break through the vapid remarks about rechanneling “intelligence streams,” fixing “no-fly” lists, deploying “behavior detection officers,” and buying more body-imaging scanners. http://salem-news.com/articles/january122010/thomas_rm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january122010/thomas_rm.php Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:56:00 PST Launched in 2010, Odd Man Out is a new Salem-News.com environmental segment that is the creation of Roger von Bütow, a professional environmental consultant. Written exclusively for the Salem-News, it's intended as the next evolutionary step on the path of an eco-warrior. Roger's success on the environmental war front have left him hungry and motivated, constantly seeking new challenges. As a by-product of his life's journey, Roger had the good fortune to cross paths with the Salem-News crew over the fiasco of the US Government’s questionable remediation of MCAS El Toro insidious soil and aquifer contamination. http://salem-news.com/articles/january022010/odd_man_rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january022010/odd_man_rb.php Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:22:00 PST Ocean-distilled air is clean, clear, cold and somehow mind-stimulating...”cold” being clearly the current chief characteristic ! This short squib is our simplified summary of signals-to-come from Seaside, “whether” permitting. http://salem-news.com/articles/january012010/signals_hr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january012010/signals_hr.php Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:11:00 PST Comments, comments and more comments, that is our life here, day in and day out. We decided at the very beginning of our existence in the summer of 2004 that people should be allowed a voice, and interactivity took a big step forward. Needless to say, the story about the Ukrainian couple who were ultimately convicted of abusing five of their six children, was the most talked about story of the year, hands down. http://salem-news.com/articles/december302009/comments_tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december302009/comments_tk.php Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:29:00 PST This is certainly one of the most interesting pieces that I have the pleasure of writing each year. The stories that make the top twenty for 2009 are probably not so much a reflection of the average Salem-News.com viewer, as they are of general national interest. The viewers who account for those numbers are often arriving at Salem-News.com because they found a story that interested them on the Google feed, or one of many other search engines, blogs and news aggregators that carry links to our stories. http://salem-news.com/articles/december292009/stories_year_tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december292009/stories_year_tk.php Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:20:00 PST Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK) and General Electric (NYSE: GE) announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture that will be 51 percent owned by Comcast, 49 percent owned by GE and managed by Comcast. The joint venture, which will consist of the NBC Universal (NBCU) businesses and Comcast’s cable networks, regional sports networks and certain digital properties and certain unconsolidated investments, will be well positioned to compete in an increasingly dynamic and competitive media and digital environment. http://salem-news.com/articles/december042009/comcast.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december042009/comcast.php Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:12:00 PST The 'Wolf in Sheep's Clothing' analogy may be a little overdone, but I also think it qualifies as an over used strategy in this world. It simply references a deceptive act against a person, it happens all too often. A magazine that I have subscribed to for many years, Foreign Policy, published an article titled "How TV Can Save The World" in their November 2009 issue that appears to serve little real purpose aside from a feeble attempt to save an industry threatened by a superior technology. http://salem-news.com/articles/december032009/fp_rag_tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december032009/fp_rag_tk.php Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:42:00 PST An Internet radio program, American Dawn, will examine the effects of workplace contamination and the impact on the health and well being of the workers who unknowingly are exposed to toxins. Vina Colley, a nuclear plant worker who found herself in a similar position, will share her experience and her journey to educate others on American Dawn. http://salem-news.com/articles/november242009/colley_dawn.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november242009/colley_dawn.php Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:01:00 PST Since January 1, 2009 the Oregon Department of Justice has received well over 600 written complaints about internet retailers. The National Retail Federation estimates that nearly half of all Americans will do some of their holiday shopping on-line. While convenient for many, Attorney General John Kroger offers the following tips to consumers when shopping online. http://salem-news.com/articles/november232009/shopping_online.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november232009/shopping_online.php Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:15:00 PST We just went through the swine flu with our older son, Will. We didn’t panic or allow the hysteria of the msm (mainstream media) to scare us. His first reaction was simply, “Darn, I’m going to miss Halloween.” With the swine flu, we’ve been deluged with scare reports from the media, ignoring the fact that each year tens of thousands of Americans die of the regular flu. http://salem-news.com/articles/november102009/swine_flu_bs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november102009/swine_flu_bs.php Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:25:00 PST