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The Palin Network

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His voice dripping with exasperation, the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said to me one July afternoon in his office: “If I would have told you that I could open up a Facebook account or a Twitter account, simply post quotes, and have the White House asked about those, and to have the entire White House press corps focused on your quote of the day on Facebook — that’s Sarah Palin. She tweets one thing, and all of a sudden you’ve got a room full of people that want to know. …”

Published: Nov 17, 2010
Length: 32 minutes (8,074 words)

Generation Why?

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How long is a generation these days? I must be in Mark Zuckerberg’s generation—there are only nine years between us—but somehow it doesn’t feel that way. This despite the fact that I can say (like everyone else on Harvard’s campus in the fall of 2003) that “I was there” at Facebook’s inception, and remember Facemash and the fuss it caused; also that tiny, exquisite movie star trailed by fan-boys through the snow wherever she went, and the awful snow itself, turning your toes gray, destroying your spirit, bringing a bloodless end to a squirrel on my block: frozen, inanimate, perfect—like the Blaschka glass flowers. Doubtless years from now I will misremember my closeness to Zuckerberg, in the same spirit that everyone in ’60s Liverpool met John Lennon.

Published: Nov 4, 2010
Length: 22 minutes (5,685 words)

With a Little Help From His Friends

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At 19, Sean Parker helped create Napster. At 24, he was founding president of Facebook. At 30, he’s the hard-partying, press-shy genius of social networking, a budding billionaire, and about to be famous — played by Justin Timberlake in David Fincher’s new film, The Social Network.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Oct 1, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,068 words)

What She Saw at the Revolution

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Vogue profile of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg

Source: Vogue
Published: Apr 1, 2010
Length: 9 minutes (2,400 words)

We Are All Writers Now

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Go back 20, 30 years and you will find all of us doing more talking than writing. We rued literacy levels and worried over whether all this phone-yakking and television-watching spelled the end of writing. Few make that claim today. I would hazard that, with more than 200m people on Facebook, and even more with home internet access, we are all writing more than we would have ten years ago.

Source: Economist
Published: Jun 26, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,061 words)