Feeling overwhelmed by the sheer volume of online content? You’re not alone. Keeping up to speed can be nearly impossible these days, with potentially hundreds or even thousands of daily postings competing for your attention from services like Facebook, Twitter, and RSS feeds.

An artful, witty or newsy status update is a pleasure — a real-time, tiny window into a friend’s life. But far more posts read like navel-gazing diary entries, this CNN writer argues.

Today’s Internet is governed by the idea that crowds of people can create the news, share information and collaborate on online projects. So when Wikipedia, the user-written encyclopedia that’s built an empire on this ideal, decided this week to add a layer of oversight to its system, the Web erupted in debate.

The Internet lit up with comments, pro and con, about Tiger Woods’ public apology, although viewership and Twitter chatter were less than what some had expected. Here’s what people were saying.

Is it possible to learn to speak or write a foreign language through computer software or Web tools? CNN.com’s Elizabeth Landau, who is learning Russian, explores what Web language-training resources are available and tries out a few.

The Twitter phenomenon, in which anybody can tell his or her followers anything — in 140 characters or less — now has a payoff that can go beyond the thrill of self-publishing.

Forgot to charge your cell phone last night? Imagine that you could power it by walking. Weirder still, you might be able to just spray a new battery on. In a small but growing field, nanotechnology is being used to create energy.

Tuesday is her 104th birthday, but that hasn’t stopped Britain’s Ivy Bean from being an avid Twitter user and possibly the oldest person on the social networking site.

They were crimes born of the Internet age — romantic solicitations on popular Web site Craigslist that police say led to the fatal shooting of one woman and the robbery of another in Boston hotels this past spring. And it was high-tech, 21st-century sleuthing, along with some old-fashioned gumshoe detective work, that led to the arrest of 23-year-old medical student Philip Markoff, who has been indicted on seven counts, including first-degree murder.

The mayor of Topeka, Kansas, has unofficially changed the city’s name to “Google” for a month in the hopes of luring a Google project to build high-speed Internet networks there. (The above photo is a CNN illustration.)

A day-old fundraising campaign done solely through text messages and made viral on networking sites like Twitter and Facebook has raised more than $3 million for the Red Cross’s relief work in Haiti.

Weather forced a postponement of a scheduled launch of space shuttle Endeavour for a third straight day Monday.

Online music is confusing these days. Instead of buying CDs or downloading songs, younger consumers appear to be shifting toward streaming music online and on mobile devices. And digital music offerings are expanding. Here are 10 sites that are rethinking how people access music on the Internet.

The Internet used to be a place where Ken Harrenstien could do anything. But with faster activity, Harrentstien, who is deaf, now works to caption content to make it accessible to all.

Weather forced NASA on Monday to scrub a launch of space shuttle Endeavour, marking the spacecraft’s third takeoff postponement in three days and fifth since mid-June. The launch will be tried again on Wednesday.

When a racist image of first lady Michelle Obama surfaced from the ugliest corners of the Internet last week to top Google’s image search results, the episode shined a spotlight on the mysterious workings of search engines.