Colleges and universities across the US are offering free courses online on virtually every subject imaginable.
The White House took a major leap into Web 2.0 on Friday, launching pages on social networks MySpace and Facebook and sending its first "tweets".
The halls of the US Congress are alive with the sounds of Twitter.
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/ 15 February 2009
The fate of US newspapers is in the news as journalists, editors, bloggers, media pundits and concerned citizens debate the future of the industry.
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/ 15 December 2008
The White House campaign of Barack Obama has ensured that things will never be the same again, according to no less of an authority than Joe Trippi.
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/ 14 December 2008
Circulation is dropping and readers are going online to get news for free, leaving the US newspaper industry awash in red ink.
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/ 21 October 2008
Joost, an internet television website from the inventors of Skype, has received a technical facelift.
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/ 23 November 2007
Thomas Jefferson, the United States’s third president, was a man of many accomplishments: architect, ambassador, author of the Declaration of Independence. But one coveted title eluded him: winemaker. More than 200 years later, Marilyn Lasserre, a 31-year-old vintner from Dax in France’s Bordeaux region, is helping to bring Jefferson’s dream to fruition and put his native state of Virginia on the wine map.