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China Where no cellphones can reach

In this age of instant e-mail and ubiquitous BlackBerrys, is it possible to disconnect completely?
  • Big Think: Clay Shirky on shifts in social media

    The author and new media expert on emotion in the media landscape and why people start using new tools
  • How to go viral

    The man who created flash mobs explains why crazes like Susan Boyle ruin our ability to focus on the big picture.
  • The day the bloggers won

    With no traditional-media allies or lobbying money, the netroots was able to alter the debate about wiretapping in the 2008 campaign. Leading the charge: Salon's Glenn Greenwald.
  • Call me Ishmael. The end.

    Cellphone novels, the rage in Japan, now have competition in America: Twitter fiction.
  • Stop worrying about your children!

    Kids today are just as safe as they were in the '70s, says "Free-Range Kids" author Lenore Skenazy, and what's really distressing is an alarmist culture that refuses to let them grow up.
  • Why can't we concentrate?

    Twitter and e-mail aren't making us stupider, but they are making us more distracted. A new book explains why learning to focus is the key to living better.
  • Rabbit Bites: "Do you have enough friends to get on MySpace?"

    Buns and Chou Chou turn to comedian Brent Weinbach for social networking advice.
  • Are we dangerously dependent on Wikipedia?

    The author of a new book says no, and talks about how a site spawned by an Ayn Rand enthusiast became our most popular encyclopedia.
  • The death of the news

    If reporting vanishes, the world will get darker and uglier. Subsidizing newspapers may be the only answer.
  • The random beauty of "25 Random Things"

    Why the latest annoying Facebook trend might be one of the most inspiring Web crazes in years.
  • You don't have mail

    In the tech-challenged White House, the prez's BlackBerry-savvy aides feel like they've stumbled into the Carter administration.
  • Is the Web helping us evolve?

    The truth lies somewhere between "Google is making us stupid" and "the Internet will liberate humanity."
  • I can has cheezburger ... and pathos?

    The lolcats, the Internet's most famous felines, may be hilarious. But in their yearning, I see nothing less than the tragedy of the human condition.
  • Google's Vulcan death grip

    Is Google the Mr. Spock of the Internet -- all head, no heart? A new book wonders if the very things that made the company great will bring it down.
  • My live-in boyfriend's spending a week with a chick he met on MySpace

    I'm not real crazy about the idea. Should I be jealous?
  • The road to Wikipedia

    How do we know what we know? A new book takes a long view of knowledge, from ancient oral traditions to the rise of universities and the Internet.
  • John McCain, Internet dunce

    Why the Arizona senator, who can barely Google, is not the chief that an increasingly technological world requires.
  • Show the games live

    NBC can't keep getting away with delaying the events we want to see for 12 to 15 hours.
  • Reinventing sports on the Web

    The Sporting News is trying to revive with an innovative method of bringing print design values online.
  • I was masturbating in my office to kinky Internet porn when another mom walked in

    I live in a small, conservative town. I'm petrified about what she may have seen!
  • Where the 20-somethings are

    Forsaken by the networks, the post-college set has turned to the Web for revealing shows (full-frontal coed nudity!) about people just like them.
  • Quote of the day

    Responding to unsubtle jabs about its candidate's age and unfamiliarity with the Internet, the McCain campaign gets a little snippy.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Buzz Bissinger launches a profane, boneheaded attack on the Internet for being profane and boneheaded.
  • Loves walks on the beach and ... money laundering

    Dear Madam, I am a Nigerian banker looking to break your heart and steal your money.
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