"Whether you believe it or not, I believe it."
Two high speed trains collided on a bridge in China recently, causing six carriages to fall off the tracks and onto a farm below. Immediately, passengers began using a Twitter-esque site to describe...
View ArticleThe Web Has Become The World's Mood Ring
Analysts at the CIA's Open Source Center spend their days combing through the world's tweets, blogs and facebook pages in an attempt to determine the mood of people across the globe. They say this...
View ArticleA Conversation With the Man Who Tweets Revolutions
Throughout the months of the Arab Spring, the twitter feed of NPR senior strategist Andy Carvin was a one stop shop for keeping up with events in the region--even though Carvin was a world away in...
View ArticleWatching Each Other Watch
Last Sunday, AMC aired the final episode of Breaking Bad. You may not watch the show, but if you’ve been hanging around anywhere online, its presence is inescapable. Fans on Twitter tweeted 100,000...
View ArticleGuantanamo Reunion
When they last met they were on different sides of a cage door at the world's most notorious prison. Now a former guard at Guantanamo Bay has reunited with two of his former prisoners from Britain...
View ArticleScrambling to Help the Victims in Haiti
In the aftermath of the earthquake's devastation, residents in Port-Au-Prince had to scramble to help their injured neighbors. Without the help of international aid, they had to make do with basic...
View ArticleJoint Chiefs of Staff Chairman on Why He Tweets: His Wife Reminds Him
This afternoon, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen sat down with John Hockenberry to talk about the U.S. military's role in the Haiti relief effort and terrorism in India and Pakistan. But the...
View ArticleHas Iran's Opposition Lost Steam?
Pro-government marchers flooded Iran's streets yesterday, on the anniversary of Iran's revolution. In fact, pro-government rallies far overshadowed opposition protests. And government supporters in...
View ArticleTMI: Find Someone Sharing Information
Are we sharing too much information on Twitter and Facebook? We're exploring the benefits and the downsides of sharing our personal lives making our private lives public. Help us in an experiment!Seek...
View ArticleProgressive and Conservative Net Leaders Define Role of New Media in Democracy
The Personal Democracy Forum gets under way on Thursday, and many leaders of American politics and social networking will meet to discuss what happens when technology intersects with policy.As it has...
View ArticleIn Detroit the SMS May Prove Mightier than the Sword
In Detroit, Mich., a local problem is gaining city-wide attention thanks to the help of some creative reporting and social networking tools. In the city's southwestern neighborhood, known as...
View ArticleFinancial 411: Is Democracy Good for Charities in the Age of Facebook?
JP Morgan Chase and American Express are turning to users of social media to decide how to make their charitable gifts. The New York Times' Kate Taylor reports that's causing consternation and...
View Article'Reputation Bankruptcy,' and Other Ideas to Protect Yourself in a Digital World
You've got something you want taken offline: a drunken Facebook photo, an ill-advised blog post about your flirtation with Satanism, a frustrated tweet you wish you could take back. As Facebook passes...
View ArticleStrong Social Connections Could Help Keep You Healthy
We have long been aware that there is some connection between having strong friendships and being in good health. But a new study shows that social connections are fundamentally important to our...
View ArticleWhat Had YOU Done By 26?
Mark Zuckerberg created the internet phenomenon of a generation, amassed billions of dollars and had a movie made about him ... all by the age of 26. As "Social Network" opens, what would you call the...
View ArticleLife at 26: “A Work in Progress”
Mark Zuckerberg gets a feature film made about his life and he's not happy with it. I'm not surprised. Apart from his incredible success with Facebook, I'm sure the guy is dealing with all the same...
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Tech Entrepreneurs See Themselves in 'The Social Network'
Relationships drive the social media site Facebook: The friends you let into your network, the groups you seek to join. Relationships are also the crux of Facebook, the movie (aka "The Social...
View ArticleContext and a Movie: "The Social Network"
Dana Stevens, film critic for Slate.com, discusses "The Social Network," the controversial new film about the founding of Facebook by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg; and Baratunde Thurston, comedian...
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The Real Life Facebook Movie: Tech Entrepreneurs Say Relationships Make or...
Relationships drive the social media site Facebook: The friends you let into your network, the groups you seek to join. Relationships are also the crux of Facebook, the movie (aka "The Social...
View ArticleAnti-Social Media
Emily Bazelon, senior editor at Slate and founding editor of Double X, looks at the Tyler Clementi case in light of other cyber-bullying incidents with fatal consequences; and New Jersey Star Ledger...
View ArticleThe Year in Twitter Trends: From #GulfOilSpill to #InHighSchool and #Iran
Over the past year, one good way to understand what people in the world are talking about has been to follow the trending topics on Twitter, usually preceded by a hashtag (#). From movies, to...
View ArticleFacebook Valued at $50 Billion
Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor have invested $500 million in Facebook, raising the company's total value to some $50 billion. According to The New York Times, the deal involves special allowances...
View ArticleHas Technology Made You Feel More Distant?
For an MIT professor, Sherry Turkle has a contrarian take on technology: Instead of bringing us together, she says it's actually making us more distant. In a new book called "Alone Together: Why We...
View ArticleDefining Sacred Space in a Virtual World
On Wednesday, we discussed a new iPhone app which helps Catholic users prepare for the act of confession. To Patrick Leinen, creator of The Confession App, the use of interactive media is a natural and...
View ArticleJonathan Coe on 'The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim'
In today’s world, it’s not unusual to wake up alone, drive to work alone, and eat our meals alone. It’s expected that most of our communicating will take place through machines, rather than face to...
View ArticleTechies Gather at South By Southwest
Twitter and FourSquare were first introduced at South By Southwest Interactive and have taken off in the social media sphere. What's going to be the big new thing to come out of South By Southwest...
View ArticleFacebook Drama
Like most teenagers, Brianna loves spending time on Facebook and, most of all, she loves the drama that is constantly unfolding on her friends' and enemies' Facebook pages. But, unlike like a lot of...
View ArticleGoogle+
Tim Carmody, technology writer and contributor to Wired.com, discuss Google's new social platform and what it means for your media diet.
View ArticleOlympic Athletes Protest Social Media Restrictions
Several U.S. athletes are protesting the strict rules that limit what they can post on social media sites during the Olympics. They're using twitter to speak up about it, using the hashtags #Rule40 and...
View ArticleThe Big Plan
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has unveiled his 2013-2014 budget. We'll discuss the $136.5 billion spending plan. Then, Reihan Salam of the National Review reflects on the President’s inaugural...
View ArticleWho Employs Racists? Facebook's New Search Can Tell You
On yesterday’s show we discussed a U.S. federal regulator’s ruling that, in many cases, employees posting about wages, hours and working conditions on social media is protected speech.But what if...
View ArticleTech Writer Anil Dash on The Web We Lost
Blogger Anil Dash says we tend to trumpet the tech revolution, with its vast social networks and slick smartphones, as a triumph of usability and empowerment. But Dash says a spirit of collaboration...
View ArticleBirth Control Costs; Forgoing a Mirror; Cultural Conflict; DSM Woes
The price of birth control pills depends on what pill you use and where you buy it. A new collaboration between WNYC and Clear Health Costs reveals some of these price disparities. Plus: what going...
View ArticleFires Continue To Rage At Yosemite National Park
They call it the Rim Fire, and it's been nearly two weeks since it started burning around Yosemite National Park.This is the seventh largest fire in California history and covers over 280 square...
View ArticleFacebook offers the best advertising for migrant-smuggling coyotes
People who smuggle migrants across the US-Mexico border, known as coyotes or polleros, are logging on to Facebook to find more clients. Satisfied customers will post reviews of their coyotes on social...
View ArticleThe extremists who killed James Foley are as brutal as they are Internet savvy
Among the many disturbing aspects of the execution of journalist James Foley is the fact that it was part of a deliberate PR campaign. Groups like ISIS rely on hundreds of tech-savvy foreign fighters...
View ArticleCanada opens up a new front against Russia — Twitter snark
Canada and Russia tangled on Twitter this week, each posting maps designed to tweak the other country's stance over Russian actions in Ukraine. But while the exchange was funny and popular online, it...
View ArticleThis hobbyist-turned-journalist is a one-man digital detective agency
Bellingcat is a new website for citizen journalists to do what you might call social media detective work. On the site, bloggers and journalists use crowdsourcing, geolocation and reviewing satellite...
View ArticleISIS has mastered high-end video production in its new propaganda wing
ISIS knows media and messaging, from its black and white flag to its raised index finger gesture to its tweets. Now the group has a new propaganda wing that is producing sophisticated, effects-laden...
View ArticleMeet the young women of ISIS — on the social web
Buzzfeed reporter Ellie Hall got a disturbing look at the online world of young women — often from the West — who claim to be members of the Islamic militant group known as ISIS. They go to the Middle...
View ArticleSocial Media Beyond Facebook
Smaller companies are starting to fill niches that Facebook - the social network behemoth - hasn’t. Gina Bianchini, the founder and CEO of Mightybell, discusses what’s next for social media.
View Article10.4.14 - The Power of the Everyday
It's time to examine the power of the everyday. Antibiotics overuse has created resistant bugs that are fundamentally changing healthcare, says Maryn McKenna, author of "Imagining the Post-Antibiotics...
View ArticlePublic Shaming on Social Media
Jon Ronson talks about the renaissance of public shaming that's happening online.
View ArticleTwitter Turned Its Star Into a Heart. :’-(
Twitter replaced its icon for favorites, the star, with a heart, to signify “likes.” Brooke talks to Emily Bell, a columnist at the Guardian and director of the Tow Centre for Digital Journalism at...
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Parisians use #PorteOuverte to offer each other shelter after attacks
French special forces evacuate people, including an injured man holding his head, as people gather near the Bataclan concert hall following fatal shootings in Paris. Photo by Reuters/Christian...
View ArticleThe Many Facets of Radicalization
Top national security officials and Silicon Valley executives are engaged in a conversation about how to confront terrorism where it often begins -- online. One idea: to create an algorithm of sorts...
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Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Fake News Edition
Drawing a distinction between fake and real news is going to be hard for those Facebook and Google employees tasked with banning offending sites. But it shouldn’t be so hard for you, the...
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