Handmade 2.0: What are so many crochet-hook-wielding, papermaking, silversmithing handicrafters doing online? Trying to prove that the future of shopping — and of work — is all about the past. Scholars are falling into line to maneuver through new territory: Online socializing as academic discipline. Erich Fromm, one of the 20th century's most prescient thinkers, predicted half a century ago that we need proper human warmth, not keyboard friends. When the bullies turned faceless: Cellphone cameras and text messages, social networking Web sites, e-mail and instant messaging, all give teenagers a wider range of ways to play tricks on one another. Email and the end of civilization: Com’on everbody, ligten up — wats so bad about email? Spam, spam, spam, spam, and poetry: Is there art in those bizarre, indecipherable come-ons in junk e-mails? And those "enlarge your manhood" e-mails — who is sending them? Wikipedia doubled its number of articles in just 18 months, but who are the “Wikipediots” writing them? And why do they do it? After 10 years of blogs, the future's brighter than ever. Bloggers of the world, unite: The journalists' union has recruited its first blogger, and why not? Moving with the new media to represent working people is what they do.
