The perils of instant reviewing: Getting the measure of a long book in less than 24 hours is usually a pretty tall order. Sometimes they don't need to detain you for that long. From TED, Jonathan Harris wants to make sense of the infinite world on the Web — so he builds dazzling graphic interfaces that help us visualize the data floating around out there. Here he presents "We Feel Fine," a project that scours blogs to collect the planet's emoti(c)ons, and the "Yahoo! Time Capsule," which preserves images, quotes and thoughts snapped up in 2006. The internet is an amazing means of communication spanning the globe, but it also has a dark side: Personal web pages. Is Google's data grinder dangerous? It wants to know more about us than we know ourselves. Stealing Comic Gold: One comic's crusade has sparked a heated

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