From Cafe Babel, a series of articles on Facebook & co: Empire of the Network. Nifty ways to leave your lover: As her son tells 300 Facebook friends that he has broken up with his girlfriend, Mrs M is glad her teenage dating took place in the pre-internet years. From The Moscow Times, putting faces to names: Odnoklassniki, a social networking site similar to Facebook, has gained 6 million members in less than two years. From The Economist, a special report on technology: Virtual worlds are being put to serious real-world uses—and are starting to encounter some real-world problems. Better together: The internet, supposedly a new realm, is most useful when coupled to the real world. A look at how the Internet is killing, saving, re-killing, and re-saving journalism. A librarian's worst nightmare: Yahoo! Answers, where 120 million users can be wrong. A review of Do It Wrong Quickly: How the Web Changes the Old Marketing Rules by Mike Moran.
