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'Internet'

Senate panel OKs bill to allow cities to provide broadband service

Senate panel opens a crack in private monopoly on broadband services.
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Governor releases broadband plan to reach rural communities

Gov. Asa Hutchinson today released a plan to deliver broadband connectivity to most towns in Arkansas by 2022.
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The Democrat-Gazette yesterday, today and tomorrow

The past and future of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a rough time for the newspaper industry is expected to be on display in the Sunday edition of the statewide daily.

Fake news devastates a pizza joint. This could happen to you

Fake news on the Internet helped elect a president. It can also be used to target individuals with damaging effect. Read about a Washington pizza parlor targeted for such an attack.
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Comcast announces high-speed data service in Little Rock

Comcast Business announced today that it has completed a fiber optic network in Little Rock that can provide 100-gigabit speed to customers.

LR matchmaker Christian Rudder of OkCupid dinged for web experiment

Christian Rudder, the Little Rock native who helped found the OkCupid matchmaking service, has come under fire lately for an experiment to see how unmatched couples might match up. The New Yorker talks to him about it.
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Repressive governments crack down on bloggers

Russia goes after bloggers. You say it couldn't happen here? Let's hope not. But our politicians have repressive tendencies, too.

National media spin on the Clinton papers — Hillary was powerful!

The New York Times put its gloss on the Clinton White House document dump at the Clinton Library yesterday. In short: Nothing new, but we have to make it seem like there is.You will be shocked, undoubtedly, to learn that Hillary Clinton has an aversion to media. That she was a champion of women's rights. That her staff wanted her in public more. That the health care initiative was a bummer.
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Report: Tom Cotton called for cigarette ban at Harvard

The Daily Caller, whose politics lean far right, is out with a story on Republican Rep. Tom Cotton, the freedom-loving independent thinker who's going to announce for U.S. Senate next week.

Careful what you say on the Internet in Greenwood

Popping off on Internet chat boards can get you in trouble. Particularly if you're an unpopular newspaper writer in a small town and your unfriendly comments are directed at a member of the city council.
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Tom Cotton learns value of Internet

I'm not ready to jump on the Democratic Party of Arkansas's bandwagon on this one, though it is kind of amusing.

The end of anonymity; the world is wired

This isn't exactly news, but it's a worthwhile reminder: The NY Times has rounded up a number of recent episodes in which people have been exposed to potential prosecution, if not simple embarrassment, by the reach of the Internet, combined with cell phones, social media and all the rest.
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