Whether or not the green aspirations of regular Iranian citizens will be met, to me they have helped resurrect the identity of a nation, or at the very least, repaint it in a different hue.
Google is now pulling content for real-time search from Twitter, FriendFeed, Jaiku and Identi.ca and will be adding Facebook and MySpace updates in the coming weeks.
I'm making real investment in fast trains that run where people live and want to go my wish for the New Year.
Are you tweeting your good cheer this year? Putting up Facebook photos for those long distance relatives? Are you sending email Christmas cards to save paper, postage, time, the world? Yes, using today's technology to keep in touch is better than when we couldn't but contact doesn't always equal connection.
I realized that we were all descending, en masse, into a vast swamp of self-promotion that is just not becoming of the writerly class. So I have come up with ten-step pathway to grace for writers.
Like anyone, I enjoy a lot of the pop music dispensed from Simon Cowell's empire, but it's just exciting to see this netroots campaign unseat the winner of Britain's American Idol-like X-Factor with a 15 year-old song about revolution.
Curating "Dear Old Love", a website and now book of short, anonymous notes to old loves, has provided me with an email box full of insight into the ways relationships pull apart.
Worried about Facebook's privacy changes? The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a complaint against the...
December 13th, 2009 at 1:00PM in Times Square: If you happened to be walking through the tourist-infested crowd there over the weekend, you might have seen me and my red hoodie smiling back at you.
I have no doubt that some people buy books based on their discovery of an author online. But I also believe that what helps can also hurt if not done in moderation.
Social networking can create problems for small firms when employees spend too much time using the technology for personal rather than business reasons.
One of the biggest mistakes authors make is selling their book. Remember it's not about the book; it's about what the book can do for the reader.
What do Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the Supreme Court of the United States and golfing giant Tiger Woods have in common? Privacy. More specifically, how we define privacy in our texting, tweeting, Facebooking, YouTubing, Googling era.
Unlike the past, when transparency and accountability were demanded of democratic leaders by their voters, today many leaders are also involved in dialogue with international public opinion and with a global citizenry.
Bell-ringing Salvation Army volunteers are always a telltale sign of the holiday season, and although they certainly still have their place, this year holiday giving has turned to a new outlet: social media.
Last week my procrastination led me to conduct a classmate search on Facebook in which I noticed that a girl who had been my friend now had an "add as a friend" rectangle next to her face. "Add as a friend?"
Because social media is a largely unregulated environment, law enforcement is advancing into the field unchecked. We need to start laying down guidelines for law enforcement access to social networking data.
A new case involving texting on company phones is set to hit the Supreme Court. The case, which involves police officers in Ontario, California exce...
The social media tactics critical to President Obama's victory last fall have trickled down to state-level races in Illinois and bridged the partisan divide.
Why do we group so many things in sevens? Seven is more than a lucky number. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.
Put together cheap resources everywhere and poor self-control, and you get a weight problem literally of epidemic proportions. The trouble is, this same phenomenon may be happening with our minds.
