Click here to view the embedded video. I love this quirky little how-to clip, mostly because the audio doesn’t match up to the video, making poor Leila look like she needs her own mandated visit to the house of corrections. But I can relate to Leila and her message, and I’m willing to admit that...

President Obama caused a bit of a stir when he persuaded his security staff to let him continue using his BlackBerry device after he took office. Even though he’ll only be able to connect with a select group of staff and friends, the 44th President is now the first sitting President to use a w...

The American Psychological Association’s Science Directorate has just published an article by Marguerita Lightfoot on the potential of electronic communication in the context of psychological interventions. Given many adolescents’ preferences for communicating via the internet over face-to-face ...

Editor’s note: in advance of this weekend’s U.S. Open, this is the second in a series of posts exploring the metaphorical relationship between golf and writing. One of the enduring paradoxes of golf as played by amateurs is the huge and hugely disproportionate emphasis placed on the driv...

Every time I hang out with that kid I come out of it feeling rejuvenated and with a renewed faith in our ability to bring some measure of sanity to this benighted ball of rock. Plus he’s pretty hot....

To open up this new year, I would like to extend a discussion that got off to a good start in 2006-7: the new possibilities and challenges associated with the fact that we increasingly–whether we like it or not–have an online persona to project, or at the least protect. Kate got this bal...