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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]