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How a Lone Grad Student Scooped the Government and What It Means for Your...

How a Lone Grad Student Scooped the Government and What It Means for Your Online Privacy Jonathan Mayer (Peter McCollough/ Wired) by Peter Maass ProPublica, June 28, 2012, 6:30 a.m.   June 28: This...

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Your E-Book Is Reading You – WSJ.com

Your E-Book Is Reading You Digital-book publishers and retailers now know more about their readers than ever before. How that’s changing the experience of reading. By ALEXANDRA ALTER It takes the...

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Microsoft’s $6 billion aQuantive whoopsie – Jul. 2, 2012

Microsoft’s $6 billion whoopsie By David Goldman @CNNMoneyTech July 2, 2012: 5:54 PM ET     NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Some business deals just don’t work out — and sometimes they really don’t work out....

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As Weather Channel Buys Wunderground, Storm Clouds Brew Among Fans – NYTimes.com

Fans Howl After Weather Site Buys Out Rival By JOHN SCHWARTZ and BRIAN STELTER Published: July 3, 2012   It’s stormy out there. Peter DaSilva for The New York Times Executives and meteorologists at...

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Betaworks Buys What’s Left of Social News Site Digg – NYTimes.com

  Betaworks Buys What’s Left of Social News Site Digg By JENNA WORTHAM   For a while, Digg, the social news site, was one of the hottest things on the Web. But then it fell on hard times as services...

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Beware, Tech Abandoners. People Without Facebook Accounts Are ‘Suspicious.’–...

  Beware, Tech Abandoners. People Without Facebook Accounts Are ‘Suspicious.’ The term “Crackberry” seems silly today — and not just because consumers OD’ed on Blackberry and moved on to iDealers. The...

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How to Make a Dead Cat Bounce on Twitter – NYTimes.com

  How to Make a Dead Cat Bounce on Twitter By NICK BILTON A tool built by The New York Times Company Research and Development Lab called Cascade can track when an article is shared on Twitter and then...

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2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 230,000 times in...

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Social Media Is a Romance Contraceptive – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com

Put the Smartphone Down. Now. David Wygant is a dating and relationship coach. He is also the author of “Naked!: How to Find the Perfect Partner by Revealing Your True Self.” UPDATED DECEMBER 30, 2012,...

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The Creep of Social Media Raises Big Questions – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com

The Creep of Social Media Raises Big Questions Sherry Turkle    Social media won’t get less attractive the longer they exist. But we will learn how to use them more wisely. Right now, we’re smitten and...

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