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• Don’t Tweet On Me

  Daniel Lyons 9/17/2009 12:00:00 AM

  The comedian Dane Cook apparently believes he is building his brand by pumping out a steady stream of comments on Twitter, the microblogging site that lets you broadcast 140-character messages to anyone who chooses to become your "follower." Cook's followers receive a regular series of bons mots: "Just got my hair cut. When finished she asked me, 'Do u want any product in your hair?' I said sure—how about dairy?" Or this: "The future is wide open. What a slut." Not laughing yet? How about: "I hollowed out the pages of a bible today & hid a smaller bible inside."

• Lonely Planet

  8/21/2009 12:00:00 AM

  There are more than 300 million of us in the United States, and sometimes it seems like we're all friends on Facebook. But the sad truth is that Americans are lonelier than ever. Between 1985 and 2004, the number of people who said there was no one with whom they discussed important matters tripled, to 25 percent, according to Duke University researchers. Unfortunately, as a new study linking women to increased risk of heart disease shows, all this loneliness can be detrimental to our health.

• The ‘New’ Sexual Harassment

  8/13/2009 12:00:00 AM

  When her hotel room phone rang at 2 a.m., Megan McFeely assumed it was an emergency. Maybe a friend or family member was hurt or in trouble. Worried, she sleepily picked it up, only to hear a male coworker on the other end. Not a superior, he was someone with "definitely more power than I had," urging her to come back down to the hotel bar. It was obvious he was drunk.

• Turning the Page on Tradition

  Arlene Getz 8/12/2009 12:00:00 AM

  Somehow, yearbooks have always been more than the sum of their parts. More than mere highlights of the year's events, those permanently smiling portraits always held—for me, anyway—the iconic poignancy of a frozen dream. But now yearbooks are receding from the cultural mainstream—at least at the college level. Like newspapers, these annual publications are under siege from the Web. Social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace allow users to share instantly the photos that once would not have been published for months, and enable college friends to stay in touch years after dorm life is done.

• Wired For a Revolution

  Mark Hosenball 6/20/2009 12:00:00 AM

  Iran's mullahs are finding out the hard way that medieval methods of control are no match for 21st--century technology. According to several current and former U.S. and European security officials, Iran is too thoroughly wired for its government's efforts at disabling Facebook, Twitter and text messaging to hold back the tide of dissent. "[The Iranians are] not good at doing it," says a former senior U.S. intelligence official, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive subjects, adding that while authorities have tried various stratagems to control cyberspace and cell-phone traffic, "they can't black out the opposition."

• It Feels Like Activism

  Evgeny Morozov

  It has happened to all of us: a friend forwards an e-mail urging you to sign an online petition or join a Facebook group for some noble cause like saving Darfur or stopping deforestation. Most of us, out of respect for the friend or because we agree with the cause, click ACCEPT or AGREE, often without giving the issue much thought. After all, it can't hurt, can it?

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