Steve Andersen cut to the heart of this question in the lead-up to this year's Web of Change event.
She's a former editor of BlogHer, a current blogger on the Huffington Post and has been a convener for Web of Change, She's Geeky and TEDxAdamsMorgan.
Partly they lie in a tangled web of political changes, including the collapse of the left and the rise of identity politics.
Interviewed by Andrew Bolt on Channel Ten on Sunday, Joyce, the agriculture minister, said the decision was a "disgrace" and suggested academics had been influenced by a lucrative web of climate change consultancies.
The Clinton speech, with its criticism of Chinese Internet controls and its high-minded talk of the power of the Web "to change history," places Google's China shocker in the ideological context of the color revolutions and regime change.
But his struggles, lending him the status of a martyr figure, may paradoxically provide him a better platform from which to leak damaging information, said Evgeny Morozov, a researcher on the political effects of the Internet and author "The Net Delusion," a book that is skeptical of the power of the Web to change governments for the better.
Our dependency on mobile devices for information has forced the design of the web to change.
Traffic to Demand's websites shrank dramatically shortly after the company went public in 2011 as they started appearing lower in Web search results because of changes to Google's ranking system.
The cumulative result is that sustainability professionals must navigate a complex web of overlapping climate change regulations with a number of perverse incentives and unintended consequences (most notably in the assorted treatment of gas and electricity).
They are linked through 350 self-organizing Hubs across cultures, forming 700-1,000 circlesg circles to co-create an inspired web of connections with change makers across society's sectors and systems.
