As 2011 dawned, Facebook released a map that spoke to our era of social media in much the same way the first pictures of Earth from space spoke to the 1960s.
Tunisians filled the streets with the help of Twitter. Egypt's protests were coordinated on Facebook pages like that of internet activist Wael Ghonim. Libyan dissenters spread the word about their "day of rage" last week the same way.
"People protested and brought down governments before Facebook was invented. They did it before the internet came along."
Why is Rocko, that one-dimensional wallaby from the '90s cartoon series, now a friend of mine on Facebook? And Charlie Brown? And Chip 'n' Dale?
I learned the hard way last year that predicting NFL success for a college star isn't so easy. After all, I'm the guy who wrote this about Alabama offensive tackle Andre Smith:
The NFL took a small step forward from its customary stance of denial and obfuscation on the issue of brain injuries.
GPS Reading Listupdated: Wed Apr 22 2009 17:53:00
GPS READING BLOG Check out some books and articles that Fareed and his guests are reading this week: BOOK OF THE WEEK The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing by Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat. The authors examine how global political risks such as government changes, terrorism, and war, can affect the business world. They provide methods to help corporations and global firms to understand and manage political risk. It is a fascinating look at how to read an ever-changing geo-political landscape. OUR GUESTS RECOMMEND... PEGGY NOONAN, author of "Patriotic Grace" The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor edited by Sally Fitzgerald. "The author was thinking constantly about God and writing, which she experienced as a vocation and as part of her purpose for living on earth. It's humorous, unpretentious and shows that she knew how to suffer -- but she also knew how to own it." JON MEACHAM, author of "American Lion" The Lords of
Why are some people amazingly successful -- and other people with the same intelligence or abilities just part of the crowd?
In the business world, managing talent is one of those topics that are both overanalyzed and misunderstood. What separates the legendary CEO from the chronically dissatisfied cubicle dweller?
Where are we, exactly, in the trajectory of green business? Things seem to have changed decidedly in the past six to twelve months, as more and more companies do more and more things. But what should we make of it?
Last year Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink, blurbed economist Steven Levitt and co-writer Stephen Dubner's Freakonomics. Then the newbie blogger got one too many questions about whether Levitt's t...
What's Next?updated: Mon Oct 10 2005 10:50:00
Speculating on how we're going to be living in 2020 is best left to the futurists and to science fiction; instead, TIME's "What's Next?" feature offers a sneak peak at the technologies that are just around the corner, and at the trends, events and people that will matter in 2006. And it explores how some of America's finest minds contemplate and plan for the immediate future.
The simple-concept-that-explains-the-world book--epitomized by Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point--has been big for a while. So big that the approach is getting a bit tired.
In the picture that accompanied Malcolm Gladwell's 2000 book, "The Tipping Point," he has close-cropped hair. The picture of the author from "Blink," however, shows him with a broad, Afro-like hairstyle.
Think fastupdated: Tue Feb 22 2005 10:20:00
Malcolm Gladwell is a science writer, not a rock star. But you'd be forgiven if your first impression is that of the latter.
If you could assemble the world's most perfect board of directors, whom would you put on it? You'd probably want some theoreticians from the business schools, a venture capitalist or two, maybe a s...
Fortune: Bookshelfupdated: Mon Mar 06 2000 00:01:00
In City of God (Random House), we learn that Einstein "had a habit of calling God the Old One." Posted on this message board of a novel, this incidental fact falls between a pot-smoking priest turn...
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