From First Monday, Erika Pearson (Otago): All the World Wide Web’s a Stage: The performance of identity in online social networks; and an essay on online courses and how they change the nature of class. An interview with Michail Ryklin, author of Communism as Religion. From FT, a review of Finance: Servant or Deceiver? Financialization at the Crossroads by Paul Dembinski. From Fortune, an interview with Paul Osterman, author of The Truth About Middle Managers. Beijing's GDP Numerology: A look at the unscientific origins of the national obsession with 8 percent — no more, no less — economic growth. Moderate extremists: Tunku Varadarajan on Taliban that he has known. God beats up on people who ask useless questions: A review of Peter L. Berger's Questions of Faith: A Skeptical Affirmation of Christianity. A

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