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We’ve all been there. Or some of us have. Anyone who cares about books has at some point confronted the Pushkin problem: when a missed — or misguided — literary reference makes it chillingly clear that a romance is going nowhere fast. At least since Dante’s Paolo and Francesca fell in love over tales of Lancelot, literary taste has been a good shorthand for gauging compatibility.

Full article in today's New York Times.

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This just blows me away. Wow.

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My social networking is done via Flickr, this blog, IM and Twitter -- if you want to know what I’m doing then follow me on those services or chat me up in IM or email.

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A few years ago, a parenting magazine asked me to write an article about the dangers that children face when they go online. As it turns out, I was the wrong author for the article they had in mind.

The editor was deeply disappointed by my initial draft. Its chief message was this: “Sure, there are dangers. But they’re hugely overhyped by the media. The tales of pedophiles luring children out of their homes are like plane crashes: they happen extremely rarely, but when they do, they make headlines everywhere. The Internet is just another facet of socialization for the new generation; as always, common sense and a level head are the best safeguards.”

My editor, however, was looking for something more sensational. He asked, for example, if I could dig up an opening anecdote about, say, an eight-year-old getting killed by a chat-room stalker.

Read the full article here.

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The launch of Google Sites may mean stiff competition for Microsoft's SharePoint. MPOW uses SharePoint 2007 and I have been less than satisfied with its performance. Here's the link to today's news.

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Combining Alpharetta, Georgia-based ChoicePoint with the LexisNexis Risk Information and Analytics Group will create a risk-management business with $1.5 billion in sales, Reed Elsevier said today.

Reed Elsevier said it will sell Reed Business Information, which publishes Variety, Publishers Weekly, New Scientist and Australian Doctor. The unit depends on advertising revenue and tracks the ups and downs of the economy, while the company is trying to move to more subscription-based businesses, Reed said.

More news here.

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