What is the culture of MySpace? Youth culture in my town's high school was dominated by the jocks and their rivals, the burnouts. The closer the burnouts were to jocks, preps, or worse their parents, the more miserable they felt about themselves. The further away from the mainstream, the greater... more

Malcolm Gladwell wrote an article in The New Yorker in 1999 called "Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg." In it, he tangentially explains how it's been mathematically proven that Kevin Bacon is NOT ... more

The New Yorker had an article recently about a consultant who monitors blogs and messageboards for her client. She keeps her eyes peeled for keywords, "flame-ups", coded messages, and signs of attacks. It's something like the ... more