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When Funny Goes Viral

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One weekend this spring, close to 1,000 people gathered on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to attend a sold-out conference devoted to the question “What is awesome on the Internet?” While the event included presenters and moderators with respectable research credentials from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard and the like, what they had gathered to examine, more or less seriously, is what might be called the ROFL universe.

Author: Rob Walker
Published: Jul 16, 2010
Length: 18 minutes (4,580 words)

Endless Summers

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Throughout his dazzling but controversial career—top World Bank economist, Treasury secretary, Harvard University president, and now head of the White House National Economic Council—Larry Summers has been his own worst enemy.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Dec 1, 2009
Length: 32 minutes (8,239 words)