Online Social Networks are Geographically Anchored

Reporting on a recent study, Richard Florida tells us that online social networks actually tie us even more closely to people within geographic proximity: Their findings indicate that place and proximity continue to matter even in social media. Twitter doesn’t replace the networks that exist in the real world—it reinforces them and makes them stronger. …

Delightful prose by Margaret Weatherford

Delightful prose by Margaret Weatherford in this series of vignettes organized around experiences with the family car: In Burbank one smoggy summer, when my grandfather was dying, my mother took us in the Chrysler to the movies to get out of the heat. When we got to the theater, the car wouldn’t turn off. As the …