Facebook and Twitter are transforming politics around the world, but to what effect? They helped dissidents drive dictators from power in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. No doubt they will continue to help subvert despotic regimes. Will they also foster democracy in newly liberated nations? Will they increase the leverage of activists pressing democratic governments to [...]
Nate Silver had a great piece in the Times recently looking at how clashes with police seem to have driven mainstream media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests (a classic example of the principle of “if it bleeds, it leads”). The centerpiece of his article is this chart, showing the pattern of relevant media hits. Nate’s article [...]
Today I’m excited to welcome some of the world’s foremost experts and advocates to Seattle for the foundation’s second Malaria Forum. As we head into this exciting day, I can’t help but reflect on the tremendous progress we have made in building public support to end malaria since the last forum four years ago. We [...]
Software company SmartBear recently released the seventh installment of their quarterly Web Performance Index for Social Networks. It ranked which social media sites were the fastest and which were the most reliable in the third quarter of 2011. The findings are based on data collected by SmartBear’s AlertSite, which monitors the home pages of these five [...]
The new online environment our children live in requires a different style of parenting. The reality of the social web is that parents cannot completely control where and when their kids get access to, or post, certain sensitive information on topics like sex, drugs, violence, racism etc., so we require new tools that parents before [...]
It took me a while to get used to the idea of marriage, because I thought it had only one definition – and I really didn’t like it. I had to mature a bit to realize that two whole people could define their relationship the way that worked best for them – that other, more [...]
This morning on the “Joy Behar” show, Arianna Huffington and actress Rita Wilson talked to Behar about love and relationships after 50. Behar asked how Wilson, the Editor-at-Large of Huff/Post50, “keeps it hot with Tom Hanks.” On a more serious note, Huffington talks about how liberating it is to grow up and be free of [...]
Does being in a long-term, committed relationship make you more well-behaved than your friends who date around? According to a recent study from the University of Texas, the answer is yes. The study says that sexually active teens in romantic relationships are less likely to engage in delinquent behavior than teens who have casual sex, and [...]
Statistically for men, second marriages fail at a much higher rate than first marriages. The reason is simple, and it’s critical every woman contemplate it before marrying a divorced man. Many men fail to glean the lessons from their failed marriages and consequently never heal their wounds. Many aren’t even aware they’re the walking wounded. [...]
I was brought up and programmed to believe in a number of ideas that have turned out to be untrue. These false beliefs led me to make various life and relationship mistakes. I didn’t like making mistakes any more than you do, but it is from my mistakes that I’ve learned so much. In this [...]
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