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...

How badly can you execute what seems like a good idea? Very badly, of course!  So badly that it makes you wonder just how good an idea it could even have been.  Just as Pipl.com, “the most comprehensive people search on the Web,” which offers “five facts” about “piple...

Michael Arrington: [A]n increasing number of people are just plain avoiding voicemail (for my impromptu and unscientific survey, see the comments here, which are predominantly anti-voicemail). It takes much longer to listen to a message than read it. And voicemail is usually outside of our typical w...

If you are logged into IM, why are you showing a “BUSY” status indicator? Turn the fershlugginer thing off. That’s what’s called “BUSY.”...

Ted Frank: There are numerous scholarly books and law review articles on the history of the Federalist Society. The only book or article the Wikipedia article cites in its references section? “101 People Who Are Really Screwing America,” also cited 9 times in the article. Second is the P...

Lisa Sanders in the New York Times : “[T]he very hardest kind of diagnosis — an unusual presentation of an unusual disease.” This is a fascinating article about the workings of great medical minds and technology in our time....