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The Face of Things to Come

We Americans have had our share of entertaining pretenders. From yesteryear’s The Monkees to Disney’s Lemonade Mouth, there have been plenty of producer-created bands and

Death Told by Facebook

I didn’t know who Ryan Dunn was until a few days before he died, when I happened to watch part of the NBC game show

A Gunman’s Facebook Status

In one of the more bizarre examples of social networking give and take, an armed 36-year-old guy named Jason Valdez recently held a woman hostage

Yosemite Slam

Plugged In recently published a story of mine called “Around the World in 80 Clicks,” which examined the amazing (and kinda scary) ability we have

Family Media Surprise

For generations, parents have told their kids, “Shut off the TV and go outside!” And in the last decade or so, we can add iPods,

A Zettabyte Is Big. Really Big.

A colleague and I sometimes laugh about weird headlines. My favorites from the past week or so include “Fearsome Lawn Ornament Shot Dead by Cops,”

Your Sniffer or Your Smartphone?

Even though I was an English major, I still took two classes in anatomy and physiology in college. In addition to memorizing the names of

The Current Cautionary Call

Let’s face facts. If you take everything we watch, read and hear at face value, our modern life is out to get us. It’s like

Chasing Death for 15 Minutes of Fame

There are professional storm-chaser videos, and then there are WHAT-are-you-thinking-you-lunatic storm–chaser videos. Not long after the most recent siege of devastating tornados ripped across the

Comfortably One

Time magazine recently published an article (“Bursting the Bubble: Are We Isolated in a World Wide Web of One?”) that discussed how search engines and

Plugged In Parent’s Guide to Today’s Technology

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