From First Monday, Robert W. Gehl (Utah): Ladders, Samurai, and Blue Collars: Personal Branding in Web 2.0; Kalev Leetaru (Illinois): Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting Large-scale Human Behavior Using Global News Media Tone in Time and Space; and Jana Bradley, Bruce Fulton, Marlene Helm, and Katherine A. Pittner (Arizona): Non-traditional Book Publishing. From Vanity Fair, is Groupon's idiosyncratic CEO, Andrew Mason — an accordion-playing, ever paranoid prankster — ready to move Groupon forward and fight off a horde of copycats? The Trivialities and Transcendence of Kickstarter: Kickstarter leverages the free-for-all ethos of the Internet to turn unlikely ideas into reality — but someone still has to be in charge. From Psychology Today, is your mind at odds with the online world? From On the Media, a series on the monolithic impact Google has on our lives for better and for worse. Why software is eating the world: Far from a bubble, we're watching a new generation of tech start-ups realize the Web's original potential. Information Designer: In the golden age of data visualization, Ben Fry helps designers think like programmers, and vice versa. Who's afraid of digital natives? Let's not get intimidated by kids and their Internet savvy. A review of Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick. Many of us have a social media presence, but what happens to that personality after you've died? Google This: The Internet is changing our brains — but so what? (and more) Through the power of Auto-Tune, the Gregory Brothers are making viral video hits; their songs are as unshakable as the common cold, but a lot more fun. Will new top level domains end the rent-seeking of domain name speculators? The days of scarce domain names — and the gatekeepers who hoard them — may soon be over (and more).
