Via Reuters: One in every 11 minutes spent online globally is on networking sites. Between December 2007 and December 2008, the time spent on the sites climbed 63 percent to 45 billion minutes. . . . The biggest growth in Facebook membership comes from the 35-49 year old set. Facebook has added twic...

Glenn Reynolds points to Reason TV and “Why you’re living in the libertarian moment. ….” I’ve suggested otherwise more than once, unless by “moment” we mean a passing pulse of time — then, perhaps, that’s about right. But libertarianism is neither the de...

Eric Goldman makes an interesting point about too-clever-by-half lawyering (”what the hell, let’s throw everyone in”) that’s actually pretty stupid.  I’ve highlighted that point at the bottom: A New York teenager has sued Facebook and four Facebook users (plus their pa...

I liked this Business Week article about certain social networking myths, sent to me by Ben Rothke (my computer security maven friend whom I also linked to last week on the other blog).  Two passages deserve to be excerpted.  The first one is about the gigantic baloney factor out and about there r...

A lot of things are looking different from how they once did, aren’t they? While experiencing serial delays along New Jersey’s government transit system, I decided to take a long, hard look at the contacts database in my BlackBerry.  Boy, there were a lot of names in there of people reg...

The Right Staff is Key I have to excerpt almost this entire posting from Above the Law, because you have to read it to believe it.  This might just make a good comment at the blog, but unfortunately the comments section at ATL — which is still, in many respects, a remarkable thing, as David L...

This February has been so darned cold that I just don’t know what to do about it.  I am beginning to wonder if all the time I have been talking about how much I enjoy the procession and cycle of the seasons I’ve just been rationalizing?  Because this has been miserable. Now it was warm...

NYU’s administration doesn’t think collegiate protest is so groovy when you’re The Man: After renewed calls for negotiations between NYU officials and student body protestors after a night of intense rioting, those who were still barricaded in the college cafeteria Friday have fina...

Zenpundit over at Chicago Boyz questions the assertion by von Clausewitz that the challenge of a comprehensible military reality has almost the same effect as the acceptance of that challenge and actual engagement.  This is because the playing out of that scenario in an adversary’s strategic ...

Blawg Review at the East Central Illinois Criminal Law & DUI Weblog: Today, we will find our inspiration in the seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride. Without further ado, here are your submissions shoehorned into these categories. Yeah, well, after that, who nee...