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Who is responsible for Louisiana's current budget crisis? The same people who want you and I to reach deeper into our paychecks to fix it.

What was the first thing sold online? It was long before Amazon.com way back in 1972.

We are not sure why this used car dealership in Massachusetts decided to give this pizza delivery guy a hard time, but it really backfired on it.

Russian gang steals 1.2 billion username/password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses from thousands of different sources.

The UL graduation ceremony will be broadcast live on the Internet. You can also follow the events on social media.

The breakdown revealed this week affects a widely used encryption technology that is supposed to protect online accounts for a variety of online communications and electronic commerce.

We use the internet to send electronic mail, pay bills, get our news and purchase almost anything we want. People can visit a virtually limitless number of websites to obtain a vast amount of information. Data has become the "cash crop" of the 21st century. Corporate entities are constantly searching for new ways to grow, and monetize databases. Social media enables users to reconnect with people they haven't seen in decades... That may not always be a good thing...

I notice, from time-to-time, that some of my friends post links to parody sites on Facebook that are clearly spreading falsehoods.

I'm usually annoyed by the autocomplete feature on Google, but it turns out that the autocomplete can actually be used to write a form of poetry. Visit Google Poetics to find out how this all works, and to write your own Google poem!

Make your own Christmas song online and even pick your own instruments.  This is awesome and fun.

Holy crap, Kmart's new 'I Just Ship My Trousers' commercial is hilarious!

The Country Singing Bible Boy, Ashton Kutcher's Speech, Raising Cane's sauce recipe, Funeral Taxi Prank, and the Cheating Gag that Backfired. Here they are again, in case you missed one or want to enjoy all over again!

While selfies took the world by storm in 2013, it turns out they've been around for a lot longer than you may think.

Eric Robicheaux from Moss Motors (sponsor) and I were talking during the Polyester Power Hour Friday morning and he said that he had watched a video that made him put his phone down for, "the rest of the day".

For the first time in 10 years, Amazon is raising shipping prices and lucky (yeah right) for us, just in time for the holidays.

It may not be quite as private as you think.

According to a new survey, 56% of people with the Internet (and that's not everyone) admit to looking their names up on a search engine to see what's there.

Being on the Internet, and using social media are part of my job. After all, I work for a company called Townsquare Media. I'm expected to engage & interact with you & other nice folks during the workday. Hey!...It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do do it. Your  boss might not appreciate it when we chat online.

We live in a digital world. We all know that. But what exactly are we doing in this vast frontier?

One can find a plethora of clever sayings (and not so clever) on Facebook so I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorites.