From the JCMC, Heidi Campbell (Texas A&M): Religious Authority and the Blogosphere; and Sonja Utz (VU): Show Me Your Friends and I Will Tell You What Type of Person You Are: How one's profile, number of friends, and type of friends influence impression formation on social network sites. Anonymous online poster comment on everything from today’s news to hotel rooms; many are harmless, but some are ruthless — who are they exactly, and why do they do what they do? The philosophy (and business) of memes: Tracking and spreading viral and wacky Internet content is both a business and an art. The Internet offers an endless supply of medical information, some of it reliable, some of it not; faced with a supremely sensitive health-care decision, Matt Kapp turned to the Web. (Caution: Male-reader discretion advised.) Alissa Quart on the trouble with experts: The Web allows us to question authority in new ways. A review of Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky (and more and more and more and more and more and more) and The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brain by Nicholas Carr (and more and more and more and more and more and more). Googlethink: Nicholas Carr on the giant’s creepy efforts to read his mind (and more). YouTube is Google's greatest untapped weapon — and it'll stay that way. A review of The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick (and more and more and more and more and more and more and more). R.I.P. Chatroulette, 2009-2010: A few months ago, it was the web's hottest trend — then users took their self-exposure way too far. Closing the digital frontier: How media companies are taming the Internet’s chaos. A look at how the most exciting part of web isn’t "world wide".
