Web Scout

With this column, Web Scout moves from Sunday to daily Calendar.

The startup allows video from cellphones to be streamed live on the Web. In the future, will any bad behavior may go unnoticed?

Forget due process. Online hordes act like judge and jury.

The website is awash in video, few interesting. Anyone can watch, but the site proves that there is anonymity in numbers.

A blogger threatens suicide. She later claims it was art, but did it become too real even for her?

The Washington Post Co.’s latest online venture targets a black audience, drawing from its own media properties but linking to too little else.

Facebook users, angry at being turned into junk-mail senders, prompt a change.

Celebrity death: No other kind of event electrifies and illuminates so many parts of the Internet at once.

Virtual ‘primaries’ are popular with users, and campaigns take note.

Websites help Scrabble players make sense out of their seemingly hopeless jumbles.

Things happen fast on the Internet. Here’s how the future is shaping up.

As the stakes rise, companies find controversial ways to boost the bottom line.

Why don’t striking writers create original online programming that could bolster their cause and show the medium’s true potential?

What’s wrong with this picture?

Hollywood is wading cautiously in to the wide world of webisodes.

Can you believe GodTube.com?

As the 6-year-old encyclopedia project begins shifting from adding articles to pruning them back, arguments ensue, and it isn’t pretty. Just ask its founder -- and victim.

Images of UFOs, purportedly videotaped in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, have Internet viewers watching and debating.

Collaborative music sites make finding bandmates easier than ever.

Plant your pedigree and watch it grow by building a bridge to thousands of relatives.

The video site goes polyglot, tailoring itself and video lists to fit nine nations.

Free design tools make for program mashups that are more killer than the sums of their apps -- or at least funnier.

Vintage shows and commercials are winding up on the Web, bringing forth cheers and legal claims.

There’s real money in the virtual hills of Entropia Universe; just ask club impresario NeverDie.

As more advertisers stick their necks out online while paying off popular posters, some site surfers are screaming ‘Sellout!’

Despite the MPAA and the Swedish police, the Pirate Bay’s file-sharing ways are popular.

Artists who document their lives by taking a self-portrait a day can condense years into a few minutes of video.

The video blog Rocketboom had advertising, a big audience and world domination in its sights. The split of its creative team has proven rancorous.

Face time? It’s so 2006. Now users can webcam their way to the virtual world, live and uncut.

All is not always what it seems in cyberspace, as visits to a couple of sites aptly illustrated. Beware the ‘Wig Out’ virus.

HBO’s “Viral Videos Live” brings Internet acts worth millions and millions of hits together in Las Vegas.