With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.
Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.
Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.
Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects.
Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.
Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation.
When there's an emergency weather situation, the local broadcaster is the source of information that often makes the difference between life and death.
To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.
Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.
To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.
As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It's a joy for me, either writing a good story or telling a story on video.
I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.
Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
