Conor Clarke, writing for the Atlantic, argues that the United States should end the tradition of summer vacation. He makes three compelling points:
First, the United States ranks near the lowest # of school-days per year.

Japan–243 days
South Korea–220 days
Israel–216 days

Compared to those countries, the United States’ school year of 180 days seems significantly short.
Secondly, research that schools [...]

On Friday evening, over one-million Facebook users joined in on a landrush to claim their custom extension to their Facebook page. Users could now be have memorable identities that they could put on a business card. Compare these two urls:

http://www.facebook.com/bill.sherman
http//www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1544430393&ref=nf

Now, I’ll admit, I was one of those people who logged on to acquire my custom [...]

Yesterday, I wrote about the impact of social network technology on the Iranian protests.
It’s interesting to compare this past week’s events with other protests:

Ukraine’s Orange Revolution (2004-05)
China’s Tianamen Square Protests (1989)
Czechosolovakia’s Velvet Revolution (1989)
Poland’s Solidarity Movement (1980)

Would Poland’s change have occured quicker if the union members and organizers had access to today’s social media? How [...]