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Following Up After a Job Interview: Do the Old Rules Still Apply?

Susan Wilson Solovic | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Susan Wilson Solovic

Early in my career when I was job-hunting, I always sent a hand-written thank you note to every person I met during the interview. But do people really read those notes today?

Eliot Spitzer, Frank Partnoy, William Black: Treasury Should Make AIG Emails Public For 'Open Source' Investigation

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

A.I.G. was at the center of the web of bad business judgments, opaque financial derivatives, failed economics and questionable political relationships...

Checking It Twice

One For The Table | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
One For The Table

I feel a great sense of accomplishment when my Inbox is "cleaned out," and am genuinely tormented by items that cannot readily be deleted, answered or put into a folder.

Rush Limbaugh's NFL Bid For Rams Attacked By Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson

AP | R.B. FALLSTROM, AP Sports Writer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

ST. LOUIS (AP)--The Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson attacked the bid by Rush Limbaugh to buy the St. Louis Rams on Monday, saying the conservative...

Mindfulness With Email: 4 Steps

Soren Gordhamer | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Soren Gordhamer

Email is one of the central means of communication in our increasingly connected world, but as helpful as it can be, we can become a slave to it.

Obama, Kennedys Join Coakley's Fight For Ted Kennedy's Senate Seat

AP | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

BOSTON — President Barack Obama and the family of Edward M. Kennedy on Thursday pushed to keep a Democrat in the late senator's seat and protect...

The Rightroots: Are They 2010's X Factor?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

Republicans were supposedly leaps and bounds behind at that time of the election, but after a year's worth of execution on the part of both parties, it now looks like the space could be anyone's to own.

Imam Al Awlaki Says He Did Not Pressure Accused Fort Hood Gunman Nidal Hasan

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

WASHINGTON — A radical Muslim cleric with suspected links to al-Qaida considered himself a confidant of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychia...

Email, Exposed: See How Your Usage Stacks Up

WSJ | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Want to know how your email usage stacks up? The results of our informal email survey provide some food for thought (though clearly not much science)...

Most Common Email Password Revealed

wired.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

A researcher who examined 10,000 Hotmail, MSN and Live.com passwords that were recently exposed online has published an analysis of the list and found...

Breaking Up And Old Love Lessons: Change Your Passwords

Andy Selsberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Andy Selsberg

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.

The Truth About Author Platforms

Jonathan Fields | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Jonathan Fields

A few years back, proving your platform meant whipping out your big black book of press clipping. You know, the ones that proved you could get into the media at will. Not any more.

Email, Texting Top Social Media Gen Yers Can't Do Without

mashable.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

While Generation Y may believe that social media is for narcissists, a new behavioral study shows that the same generation spends more time on social ...

Email's End?

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Rob Kall

Crossposted from OpEdNews.com Every change in communications medium causes big changes in culture, since cuneiform, then writing were introduced. Em...

My Beef with Gmail

Andrew Sniderman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Andrew Sniderman

we are increasingly exposing ourselves to others. The insidious genius of Gmail is that its users consent to self-surveillance. Just as my Inbox stores messages to me, my outgoing messages are stored in the Inboxes of the recipients -- and in the cloud.

Has The Internet Brought Us Together -- Or Pulled Us Apart?

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Johann Hari

The internet has transformed the way we think about ourselves. The story of this decade is the story -- in all its strange sinews -- of the World Wide Web.

Winning Online: 10 Tips for 2010 Campaigns (Part II)

Matt Dunn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Matt Dunn

The reality is that Election Day 2010 is one year away. It's time for campaigns to start gearing up, and interactive needs to play a bigger role than it did in 2008 or 2009.

The Evolution of Technology

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Dr. Jim Taylor

Have you ever thought about how far we've come in our ability to connect with others and how far we'll go? I've been thinking a lot about connectivity recently and have always found that looking back to where we came from can help us better understand where we are today and, more importantly, where we may be going in the future.

The Bodhi Tree and Community

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Michael Sigman

Buddhist meditation has helped me deal with disappointment. But I still felt devastated when I learned that the owners of the Bodhi Tree are closing their iconic West Hollywood bookstore.

Digital Dieting

Jacqueline Leo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Jacqueline Leo

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.

Post Office Lost $3.8 billion Last Year

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

WASHINGTON — The Postal Service reported a loss of $3.8 billion last year, despite a reduction of 40,000 full-time positions and other cost-cutt...

What's Next After Twitter, Facebook? They're Not Dead Yet

Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

If you follow enough of the chatter about social media and tech, you'll pick up on a recurring trend: we love killing things off. The Wall Street J...

The End Of The Email Era

Wall Street Journal | JESSICA E. VASCELLARO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over. In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold--ser...

Mark Foley: Disgraced Former GOP Congressman Makes Radio Debut

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley began his new career on a Florida political talk radio, three years after a lurid scandal ru...

The Real Meaning of the Email

Bob Franken | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Bob Franken

As another in my series of vital public services, I am interpreting the language of electronic mail... what the words actually mean.