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		<title>Viewpoint: Does Facebook Owe Its Users Money?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/05/20/viewpoint-facebook-should-be-paying-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaron Lanier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What you usually hear about Facebook going public is disappointment. The initial public offering got more publicity than any in recent history, yet the stock plunged quickly and has bobbed up only into mediocre territory since. You also hear about the anticipated solution: Facebook stock might finally perform well once the company finds a way to place more ads on mobile phones. (MORE: Facebook&#8217;s IPO One Year Later: Mobile Growth, Legal Headaches and a Stalled Stock Price) But that kind of short-term analysis masks the bigger issue, which is that a dumb ideology has forced most consumer-facing Internet companies to focus on a single business plan that doesn’t have a future. The ideology was first adopted by Google around the turn of the millennium. Since computers would continue to get cheaper and cheaper, following Moore’s Law, why not make the services free? It’s the data that’s valuable, according to this line of thinking, so online companies can give away the computation and keep the data. This was the opposite of the business formula of the earlier PC era. Before computers became cheap and everyone got online, those who owned personal computers also owned their own data. Google’s idea was to centralize the information-services industry by demonetizing it. No one can compete with free. (WATCH: Jaron Lanier: Who Should Own the Future?) If the new formula was to give away the computing but keep the most valuable data, how would money be made? Well, the term advertising was repurposed. Where it used to mean an act of communication, a romanticizing of a product, now it would mean micromanaging the options placed in front of people for pay. It’s a fantastic business plan in the short term. Google, by owning gigantic computers, can outcompute smaller competitors. The more openly that information is shared, the more advantage Google gains. Google’s users are not its customers. Instead, the customers are the advertisers, who pay to place links in front of users, based on “Big Data” analysis of how the users can be most effectively manipulated.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=32621&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: Want Safer Drivers? Embrace, Don&#8217;t Ban, Technology</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/05/01/want-safer-drivers-embrace-dont-ban-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Keywell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The federal government’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently announced guidelines calling for automakers to put limits on the installation of electronic devices in new cars, including a provision that most Internet-linked applications must be disabled while the car is in motion. But if the goal is to prevent fatalities, these guidelines show some misguided priorities — and could prevent further innovation from addressing some deadly issues. Technology is the solution to dangerous driving, not the main culprit behind it. Let me be clear: I’m not advocating for texting while driving. I signed the No Phone Zone pledge, and think that people who text while driving are just plain stupid. But let’s look at the statistics to put things in perspective. In 2011, distracted driving caused about 10 percent of traffic deaths, or 3,331 fatalities. Drunk drivers led to the deaths of three times as many people. Not wearing a seatbelt caused more than half of all fatal injuries to passengers. (MORE: Will Self-Driving Cars Change the Rules of the Road?) “Distracted driving” is not even exclusively defined as car infotainment systems or mobile devices. It can be anything from looking at something outside to applying makeup to trying to deal with a rogue insect — all of which have higher odds of resulting in crashes than dialing or talking on a hand-held device, according to a 2010 NHSTSA-sponsored study. And while there were 64 more deaths in 2011 than in 2010 from distraction-related crashes, the number of people injured in such accidents dropped by about 29,000 in the same period. Contrary to the negative reputation that tech companies have for cranking out too many distracting gizmos, many startups are actually focusing on making driving easier and safer. Just look at the thousands of traffic apps that give you real-time updates for a smooth trip, including my favorite, Waze. Other companies are discouraging distracted driving by developing programs to keep drivers awake and alert — NoNap has an earpiece that sounds a buzzer if it senses your head starting to droop into sleep-mode, and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31864&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Privacy: A New Bill Finally Offers Protections</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/30/internet-privacy-a-new-bill-finally-offers-protections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It should not come as a surprise to anyone these days that Internet companies have &#8220;digital dossiers&#8221; on all of us — the websites we visit, the friends we&#8217;ve sent emails to, the photos we&#8217;re tagged in, the medical symptoms we&#8217;ve searched for. But there has never been any way for us to know just what these companies know about us — or who they&#8217;re selling our information to. But that could finally be about to change — in California, which is on the cutting edge of technology policy, and perhaps, eventually for the whole nation. A long-overdue bill in the California legislature, &#8220;The Right to Know Act,&#8221; would force companies such as Google and Facebook to reveal what personal information they have collected and how it&#8217;s being used. The public cares about Internet privacy — even though tech companies like to argue otherwise — and opinion polls show strong support for laws to protect it. In one national poll, respondents favored a law disclosing all information collected on users by a 69% to 29% margin. But this popular support for online privacy has not translated into strong legal protections — both because the public has not been good about demanding privacy laws and because industry has been very good at blocking them. (MORE: Will We Ever Get Strong Internet Privacy Rules?) The Right to Know Act has been getting a great deal of attention. Civil liberties organizations, privacy advocates and women&#8217;s groups have been urging the state legislature to pass the bill — and if the will of the people were the only consideration, it would seem destined to pass speedily. But powerful tech companies are lined up against the bill — and it&#8217;s looking like it will be a tough fight. Personal information has been called &#8220;the web&#8217;s new gold mine,&#8221; because it can be used to target personalized advertising to Internet users — a lucrative business — and it can be sold to an array of shadowy data brokers who have many ways of turning it into<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31867&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Degrees of Separation from a Bomber</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/23/two-degrees-of-separation-from-a-bomber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Christakis and Nicholas A. Christakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spent a tense hour last Monday checking Facebook and Twitter to account for all 400 of our students at Harvard College, several of whom had been running in the marathon and were close to the blast site. As heads of one of Harvard’s undergraduate residential &#8220;houses,&#8221; news of last Thursday’s MIT shooting also reached us within minutes (because one of our students happened to be on the school’s campus and texted us, “gun fire at MIT; somebody shot — all I know”). Word continued to spread at warp speed as reports of shootings and sirens were shared from the real-time police feed. The social networks through which information flows may seem like a 21st-century phenomenon, but people have always lived their lives embedded in networks, ever since we emerged from the African savannah. And we have always had an astounding ability to cooperate that exists side-by-side with a depressing ability to kill. This past week in Boston, our new online world crystallized both of these age-old features of our humanity. (MORE: The Boston Bombings: Should Cameras Now Be Everywhere?) Over the course of a few hours, we watched a surreal game of Six Degrees of Separation unfold: we learned that our 18- and 20-year-old sons, independently, knew several people who’d hung out in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s house, gone to prom and played sports with him, and knew his teachers. Our students reported similarly eerie, yet banal, connections. A few knew him directly — the storied Cambridge Rindge and Latin School sends plenty of kids to Harvard each year — and one of our colleagues had been the younger Tsarnaev’s coach at one time, which was a particularly horrifying connection insofar as yet another one of our colleagues was the heartbroken sibling of a victim killed in the attack. Many in Cambridge discovered oddly specific but nevertheless tangential links to the suspects. And we all became aware of these perplexing bonds together, well before they appeared in the news, while sheltering in place under the governor’s order. This is what happens<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31604&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four Myths About Millennials</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/12/four-myths-about-millennials/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chelsea Clinton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I’ve been privileged to meet and work with. Fresh from Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) 2013, my father and I just spent the weekend with more than 1,000 college and university students — Millennials — from around the world at Washington University in St. Louis. Every student who attended made what we at CGI U call ‘commitments’ — specific pledges to tackle a specific challenge, whether on their campus or a continent away. Attendees came from more than 300 colleges and universities, all 50 states and over 75 countries and their commitments ranged across equally diverse areas, including education, climate change, gender inequality, poverty alleviation and public health. CGI U left me both exhilarated and exhausted, but above all, inspired. I left St. Louis incredibly optimistic about our future. (MORE: How Minority Millennials Are Driving Politics) It&#8217;s not that the young people I met aren&#8217;t aware of the negative stereotypes of them out there. Some of the critiques against them do contain insight. But Millennials are actually remixing their generation&#8217;s vices into virtues that are informing their ambitions, their work and helping make the world a better place. Here&#8217;s how: 1. They&#8217;re All about the Money It&#8217;s a widely-held belief that Millennials are obsessed with money. And it’s also wildly true. Just don’t mistake it for a fixation with getting rich. After all, a survey of university graduates by consulting firm PwC shows that flexible hours and job development trump cash in their ideal workplace. The young people I met and listened to at CGI U were focused on money in the sense of getting back to real growth in the developed world, ensuring that prosperity is more widely shared in the developed and developing world, and for the United States, fixing our long-term fiscal challenges (there was even a fierce competition to see which students led the best campaigns to raise Millennials&#8217; awareness of the soaring national debt). Take CGI<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=30665&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steubenville Rape Guilty Verdict: The Case That Social Media Won</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/03/17/steubenville-rape-guilty-verdict-the-case-that-social-media-won/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a sickening crime that fit an all-too-familiar storyline. Young men who turned a night of partying into an ugly sexual assault. A culture in which high school football players are treated like gods and act as if no rules apply. And an innocent young woman who was abused by people she thought were friends and then humiliated. But what made the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case — which ended today with guilty verdicts against Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond — different and what made it feel cutting edge is the pervasive role the Internet played. It is a whole new kind of crime when teen sexual assault meets social media and goes blaringly, glaringly public. (MORE: Steubenville Teen Rape Case: Witness Pleads Fifth as Trial Continues) There was, to begin with, the Instagram photo of the two Steubenville High School football players holding their 16-year-old victim over a basement floor, one by her arms, one by her legs. The image, which was endlessly reblogged, has a chilling quality because we know what happened next. The young men penetrated the inebriated young woman with their fingers, which in Ohio constitutes rape. (Mays, 17, and Richmond, 16, were tried as juveniles; they could face detention until they turn 21.) There was the now infamous 12-minute video from the night of the assault.  In it, a former classmate of the young men can be seen mocking the victim, laughingly referring to her as “dead” and repeatedly joking about sexual assault. And there was nearly one more video: a classmate of the attackers testified that he took a video of part of the actual assault with his cell phone but later deleted it. And then there were all of the text messages. There were messages recounting the events of the night. One the attacker allegedly wrote: “I’m pissed all I got was a hand job, though. I should have raped since everyone thinks I did.” And messages to the victim, including one in which one of the attackers tried to persuade her that “nothing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=29827&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At Book Launch, Sheryl Sandberg Takes Center Stage</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/03/11/sheryl-sandberg-takes-center-stage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Davis Konigsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the mother of all book launches, Sheryl Sandberg — the COO of Facebook and a first-time author, though you would hardly know it — was interviewed by TIME&#8217;s deputy managing editor Nancy Gibbs at the Time Warner Center in New York City. Sandberg, the cover subject of this week&#8217;s TIME magazine, is on a mission to empower women in the workplace. &#8220;I believe that if more women lean in, we can change the power structure of our world and expand opportunities,&#8221; she writes in TIME&#8217;s exclusive excerpt of Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, a book that has gotten a tremendous amount prepublication attention. (MORE: Read TIME&#8217;s cover story &#8220;Don&#8217;t Hate Me Because I&#8217;m Successful&#8220;) &#8220;Thank you for joining us around the bonfire that Sheryl has lit,&#8221; Gibbs said in front of a crowd of about 200 that included Katie Holmes, Suze Orman and Lesley Stahl, before launching into her first question for Sandberg: &#8220;What has surprised you most about these last few days?&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m surprised by how much attention and how early it has been,&#8221; said Sandberg, noting that the book had only officially come out that very morning. &#8220;That hasn&#8217;t stopped anyone from having an opinion of it,&#8221; Gibbs pointed out. &#8220;What I&#8217;m concerned about is stagnation and apathy, and if a heated debate around a book is what it takes to spark a conversation, then that&#8217;s great,&#8221; replied Sandberg. (MORE: Why Sandberg Matters for Real Women) The conversation quickly turned to stereotypes that continue to hold women back and the Catch-22 of what Sandberg calls women&#8217;s success-likability penalty. &#8220;As women get more powerful, they get less likable,&#8221; said Sandberg. &#8220;I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it.&#8221; Sandberg returned often to the theme that women face a double standard — if they turn down an assignment, they&#8217;re seen as difficult, if they ask for a promotion, they&#8217;re seen as too aggressive. Until there&#8217;s greater awareness of this bias,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=29566&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">TIME WARNER&#039;S CONVERSATIONS ON THE CIRCLE: A Conversation With Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook And Moderated By Nancy Gibbs, Deputy Managing Editor, TIME</media:title>
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		<title>Can Online Dating Lead to Love?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/02/14/how-to-game-online-dating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Webb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alice, a marketing executive in her 40s, has been a member on and off of the Jewish dating site JDate.com for years; at her count, she’s been on more than 100 dates with men from the greater Dallas region. But the more she lingers on the site, she says, the harder it is to settle on any one suitor. She blames online dating for her inability to determine who, precisely, qualifies as her perfect match. The catalog of possible dates is just too infinite. (MORE: Why Restaurants and Valentine&#8217;s Day Don&#8217;t Mix) When Alice mentioned this predicament to me at a conference last week in Texas, she was echoing the growing sentiment that online-dating sites actually prevent people from finding long-term partners. But I told her she only has herself to blame. The &#8220;tyranny of choice&#8221; theory posits that surrounded by too many options, we become paralyzed, overwhelmed and unable to make a decision. Some of us begin to think that we have infinite opportunities and become lured by the prospect of bigger, better deals. Others just want out, so they’re willing to settle for someone who seems good enough at that moment in time. But this phenomenon is only applicable for those people who aren’t really looking for long-term love. They may not willingly admit this to their friends and family as they complain that there are just too many choices, but the reality is that an online dater will never really find satisfaction if she doesn’t know for whom she’s actually searching. Dating sites and the algorithms they employ don’t assess us on the qualities we’re looking for in others; rather, they ask us for data about ourselves. As I argue in my book, people are perpetually single or labor on in unfulfilling relationships not because of tyranny of choice but because they haven’t created a specific list of what they want in a mate. “Aligning on religion, finances and family” doesn’t qualify as a list. To wit: if you were to visit a grocery store with a list that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=28318&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will &#8216;Stalking Apps&#8217; Be Stopped?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/02/04/will-stalking-apps-be-stopped/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, owners of the Leaf, Nissan&#8217;s hot new electric car, got an unfortunate surprise along with their phenomenal 99 miles per gallon: a sharp-eyed security blogger revealed that Leafs secretly reported their owners&#8217; location, speed and direction to websites that other users could then access through a built-in RSS reader. Nissan did not warn customers that this information was being passed on to various third parties without their consent. Leaf owners are hardly alone. In the past few years, there have been reports that iPhones and Android smart phones have been secretly sending Apple and Google information on users’ whereabouts. (VIEWPOINT: The Government Would Like to Keep Reading Your E-Mail) Locational privacy is the next frontier in the privacy wars. More than 110 million Americans have smart phones, and millions more have GPS devices and other high-tech gadgets that keep track of where they are. Companies are eager to know our whereabouts in order to serve up location-based ads and services — you&#8217;re taking a business trip, and all of a sudden you&#8217;re getting offers online from local restaurants. And app makers are selling apps like the now infamous Girls Around Me that allow people to follow other people. The trouble is, a lot of us do not want big corporations — or the government or strangers — knowing our comings and goings. Minnesota Democratic Senator Al Franken has drafted a bill that would require companies to get customers’ consent before collecting data on their location or sharing it with nongovernmental third parties. The act has solid bipartisan support. That is not surprising for a piece of legislation informally known as the Stalking Apps Bill. But industry may yet succeed in blocking it. (MORE: Are We Guilty of Oversharenting? Why We Owe Our Kids Online Privacy) To put it simply, privacy law in the U.S. is a mess. We do not have any major, overarching federal protections; instead, there are a few laws that focus on discrete issues (health care privacy, privacy for children) or specific situations. For example,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=28107&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Was Aaron Swartz Really &#8216;Killed by the Government&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/18/was-aaron-swartz-really-killed-by-the-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the funeral of Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old Internet freedom crusader, Swartz’s father had a blunt message. Aaron — who committed suicide last week while being prosecuted for hacking — “was killed by the government,” he declared. The elder Swartz fanned the flames of a growing debate: Did federal prosecutors go too far in pursuing Swartz on serious felony charges, and are they in part responsible for his death? (MORE: Aaron Swartz, Tech Prodigy and Internet Activist, Is Dead at 26) Swartz, a computer prodigy, helped create Reddit but was perhaps best known as a freedom-of-information activist. In addition to campaigning against overly punitive copyright laws, he allegedly linked his laptop to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s computer system to download millions of articles from JSTOR, a paid-subscription database of academic articles. (MIT was a subscriber to JSTOR, but Swartz was not an authorized user.) Federal prosecutors in Boston charged Swartz with 13 felony counts that could have sent him to prison for more than 30 years. Since Swartz’s death — he was found hanged in his home in Brooklyn — his family, friends and allies in the information-freedom movement have put much of the blame on federal prosecutors. Swartz’s family said in a statement on an online memorial site that his death is “the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach.” In particular, they charge that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts contributed to Swartz’s death by choosing to pursue “a harsh array of charges &#8230; to punish an alleged crime that had no victims.” (MORE: Aaron Swartz&#8217;s Suicide Prompts MIT Soul-Searching) U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz pushed back Wednesday, saying that her prosecutors have a duty of “protecting the use of computers and the Internet” and that they had never intended to see the maximum sentence of 30 years given. In fact, they had offered Swartz a plea-bargain deal that would have put him in prison for only a few months — a deal he had rejected. In a blog post titled “Prosecutor as Bully,”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=27539&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: The Government Would Like to Keep Reading Your E-Mail</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/02/the-government-would-like-to-keep-reading-your-email/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scandal that brought down General David Petraeus last fall contained a miniscandal within it: just how easy it is for the FBI to read people’s e-mail. If Petraeus and his biographer Paula Broadwell had communicated about their extramarital affair solely by telephone, their exchanges might have remained secret. But e-mail does not get the kind of legal protection from government snooping that phone calls and regular mail do. There have long been calls on Congress to upgrade e-mail privacy, but it has not done so — and recently, it let us down once again. This failure to act is not the usual Washington inertia or gridlock. It is because there are a lot of people in government who like the idea of being able to read citizens’ private e-mail. And Internet users — who have gotten good at pushing back against Facebook over privacy issues — have not been putting pressure on Congress to strengthen e-mail privacy. (LIST: Top 10 Scandals of 2012) The Electronic Communication Privacy Act — the main law governing e-mail privacy — was enacted in 1986, when no one had any idea how important e-mail would become or how it would be used. The ECPA requires the government to obtain a search warrant to read e-mail — just like regular mail — but the FBI’s position is that it does not need a warrant once you have opened your e-mail. That means in much of the country — some federal courts have said no — all the FBI needs to do in order to read your e-mail is, essentially, ask Google or Yahoo nicely (and issue an easy-to-do subpoena). Last fall, when Congress got to work on rolling back privacy protections for online videos — something Netflix wanted badly — the original bill contained a provision requiring the FBI to get a search warrant before reading people&#8217;s e-mail. But in late December, Congress passed the “Netflix amendment,” which did not include the e-mail-privacy provision. Make no mistake: the protections did not get lost in the shuffle.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=27053&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Backlash Against &#8216;I Am Adam Lanza&#8217;s Mother&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/12/17/the-backlash-against-i-am-adam-lanzas-mother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Davis Konigsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A word of warning to any mother who writes about her child&#8217;s problems: you just might get blamed for them. This lesson was made clear by the dramatic arc of a blog post by one Liza Long, who in describing the challenges of her seriously disturbed son garnered sympathy and praise for breaking the code of silence and shame around mental illness. (MORE: &#8216;I Am Adam Lanza&#8217;s Mother&#8217;: When Parents Are Afraid) Long&#8217;s post went viral, but soon one observer, Sarah Kendzior, took the time to read Long&#8217;s entire blog and found some not entirely sympathetic statements from the beleaguered mom, such as &#8220;I quit! Let the state take care of you and your compulsive inability to stop poking people.&#8221; Kendzior also noted that Long and her husband had been involved in a messy divorce, which, while not entirely germane to the question of how to best treat a mentally ill child, did not exactly put Long in a favorable light. It was all somehow reminiscent of the days, not so long ago, when mothers of schizophrenic and autistic children were routinely blamed by the medical profession for their child&#8217;s illness. Labeled &#8220;refrigerator moms,&#8221; these women were said to have caused the social withdrawal of the child with their lack of maternal warmth and attention. We still don&#8217;t know nearly enough about Connecticut school shooter Adam Lanza&#8217;s psychiatric history, but we can be sure that his mother Nancy Lanza will, in this tradition, be scrutinized for what she did and didn&#8217;t do, should have or could have done. Understanding this tendency, both in society and in ourselves, Long and Kendzior have already put their differences aside. In a joint statement, they proclaimed, &#8220;We are not interested in being part of a &#8216;mommy war.&#8217; We are interested in opening a serious conversation on what can be done for families in need. Let&#8217;s work together and make our country better.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=26621&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When News Goes Viral: The Biggest Headlines of 2012 (According to Google)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Skarda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What makes a news story go viral? Perhaps only Google knows for sure. The search giant has released its list of the news events that skyrocketed to the top of their &#8220;trending&#8221; queries in 2012 (and shared the list exclusively with TIME). These events were the most searched over a sustained period in 2012 as compared to 2011. While many of the top trending stories of the year are somewhat expected — it&#8217;s easy to understand how Hurricane Sandy came in first — a few were quite surprising. In a nod to tech&#8217;s ascendency, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) hit number four on the list, surpassing such highly covered events as the presidential debates and Trayvon Martin shooting. And Felix Baumgartner&#8217;s daredevil jump from the stratosphere landed on the list at number seven — although people were more likely to search for what he did rather than his name. (MORE: Top 10 Opinions of 2012) Here is Google&#8217;s full list for the top 10 trending news stories of 2012: 1. Hurricane Sandy 2. Kate Middleton pictures released 3. Olympics 2012 4. SOPA debate 5. Costa Concordia crash 6. Presidential Debate 7. Stratosphere jump 8. Penn State scandal 9. Trayvon Martin shooting 10. Pussy Riot MORE: TIME&#8217;s Top 10 of Everything 2012<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=26355&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Yelp Really for Morons?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/12/05/is-yelp-really-for-morons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Ozersky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Zimmern is not pleased with Yelp. The Bizarre Foods host and former chef recently slammed the user review site, saying it “essentially gives a tremendous forum for a bunch of uninformed morons to take down restaurants.” Defenders of Yelp and other crowdsourced review sites, such as Zagat, Chow and others, say that the range of reviewers — some morons, some not — at least gives a broad spectrum of opinion, which is more than you can say for a traditional restaurant critic. (MORE: The Top 10 Food Trends of 2012) But in my experience, Zimmern is right: the reviews are, at best, wildly uneven. In an earlier, more primitive stage of my food-writing career, I had the eye-opening experience of editing a Zagat dining guide for Long Island. I got to see all the reviews for every single place in the book. And guess what? Most of the reviews were utterly misleading. Because the reviewers generally tended to write up only the restaurants they went to frequently, they tended to grossly overrate them. Every strip-mall sushi joint had “the best fish this side of Tokyo!” that “you&#8217;d think just came out of the ocean!” The most loved and admired place in the whole area, with four or five times more reviews than anyplace else? The Cheesecake Factory. (MORE: Restaurant Ratings: Is Michelin Lost in the Stars?) I&#8217;m not trying to be snotty here, anymore than was the menschy Zimmern. I&#8217;m sure I grossly overrate my favorite restaurants, and underrate those that aren&#8217;t to my particular taste, or those that I just happened to catch on a bad night. Most of the Yelp reviews I&#8217;ve read have been detailed, thoughtful, and fair-minded, as far as I can tell. But that&#8217;s the problem. I can&#8217;t tell you about all of them. I don’t have time to read them all. Consider this analogy: Last night at dinner four very smart people, all of whose opinions I trusted, told me that Skyfall was bad. Skyfall! I was flabbergasted, but if I hadn&#8217;t seen<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=26102&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Use Technology to Make You Smarter</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/11/29/how-to-use-technology-to-make-you-smarter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie Murphy Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can a calculator make you smarter? The QAMA calculator can. You use it just like a regular calculator, plugging in the numbers of the problem you want to solve — but QAMA won’t give you the answer until you provide an accurate estimate of what that answer will be. If your estimate is way off, you’ll have to go back to the problem and see where you went wrong. If your estimate is close, QAMA (developed by Ilan Samson, an &#8220;inventor-in-residence&#8221; at the University of California, San Diego) will serve up the precise solution, and you can compare it to your own guess. Either way, you’ll learn a lot more than if you simply copied the answer that a calculator spit out. Ever since journalist Nicholas Carr posed a provocative question — “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” — in a widely-read 2008 Atlantic magazine article, we’ve been arguing about whether the new generation of digital devices is leading us to become smarter, or stupider, than we were before. Now psychologists and cognitive scientists are beginning to deliver their verdicts. Here, the research on an array of technological helpers: Calculators. Cognitive scientists long ago identified the “generation effect” — the fact that we understand and remember answers that we generate ourselves better than those that are provided us (by a calculator, for instance). But a study published last year in the Journal of Educational Psychology found that adults who tried to solve arithmetic problems on their own but then obtained the answer from a calculator did just as well on a later test as those who didn’t use calculators at all. If you don’t have a QAMA calculator around, you can approximate its effects by holding off using a traditional calculator until you’ve tried to come up with a solution yourself. (MORE: Does Listening to Music While Working Make You Less Productive?) Auto-complete. Frequent users of smartphones quickly get used to the “auto-complete” function of their devices—the way they need only type a few letters and the phone fills in the rest.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=25853&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Changes to Our Commenting System</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/19/a-note-to-our-readers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Conniff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear commenters, Things are changing at TIME.com. Along with our brand-new look and feel (more on that here), we&#8217;re happy to announce we&#8217;re switching to LiveFyre for our new commenting system. Change is scary, but we think this change is definitely for the better. LiveFrye will provide a better experience and make your life just a little more social. The new system will pull in comments from your favorite social networks, creating more robust conversations about the topics you care about most. For example, if you comment on one of TIME&#8217;s Facebook posts, your comment will now appear in the comments section of the article on TIME.com. You can also easily share comments you write, like or hate to social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. The bad news is that Disqus handles no longer work. But you can sign in with Facebook, Twitter, Google, or create a new TIME.com log-in using Livefyre. Old comments will be transferred to the new system, but it might take a few days, so be patient. We&#8217;re confident that this change will provide a better experience for you. Don&#8217;t hesitate to let us know if you have any issues. We&#8217;re here to help. And for more information about our new look, check out a note from TIME.com&#8217;s Managing Editor Cathy Sharick.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=24284&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Education Entrepreneurs Do Well And Do Good?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/02/15/can-education-entrepreneurs-do-well-and-do-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie Murphy Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The history of for-profit educational ventures has not been pretty. Online colleges like the University of Phoenix have come under state and federal investigation for potentially exploitative and fraudulent practices. Kaplan University has had to defend itself against claims that it preys on the vulnerabilities of the down and desperate; its own training manual advised recruiters to use prospective students’ “pain and fears” to get them to enroll. And who can forget Chris Whittle and his ill-fated Edison Schools, as well as the commercial-filled classroom broadcasts provided by Whittle’s Channel One News? (MORE: 12 Education Activists for 2012) There’s ample reason, then, to cast a jaded eye on the new generation of edupreneurs — young, tech-savvy innovators who have begun producing products for America’s enormous education market. But a closer look reveals that many of these business owners pair a desire to prosper financially with a genuine sense of mission. They aim to “disrupt” education in productive ways, to introduce tools that will transform the way we learn just as other technologies have transformed the way we work, the way we communicate and the way we entertain ourselves. Unlike the giant Kaplan Corporation or the wealthy Whittle who built entire school systems, these entrepreneurs are often running a one-man operation out of a garage or spare bedroom. They include former (and current) teachers, tutors, school administrators and parents — people whose interest in education goes much deeper than making a buck. They’re not all clustered in Silicon Valley or downtown Manhattan, either; you may have an edupreneur living next door. I do. Well, three doors down — close enough for someone with a good arm to throw a football from my stoop to Trey Billings’s front yard. When Billings graduated from Cornell University in 1997, he planned to put his psychology degree to work in the public schools, and for several years he worked for the school district in New Haven, Conn., the city where we both live. Billings found himself frustrated by the outdated equipment and institutional inertia he<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=9714&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Orange Juice is More Expensive on Saturday</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2011/11/18/why-orange-juice-is-more-expensive-on-saturday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Lindstrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, when I was in Tokyo, I happened upon a camera store selling just what I was looking for, at a price that was simply too good to refuse. However, the more advanced model was also on sale. This left me with a conundrum: to be satisfied with my original choice, or to go one better. I told myself not to be greedy and stuck with my original choice. But it kept niggling at me. So just as soon as I’d finished work the next day, I went back to exchange for the bigger, better version. (MORE: 12 Things You Should Stop Buying Now) Imagine my surprise when I got there and found both cameras had gone up by 10%. Indignantly, I demanded to know why. Politely and patiently the sales staff simply explained: “Time of day, sir.” I took a breath, looked around and noticed crowds of other shoppers stopping by after work before heading home. Seasonal price variations are not new. We are well aware of peak and off-peak travel times. Families who want to get together around Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving expect to pay top dollar for air tickets. Retailers also know that our price sensitivity varies across the day, week, month and year. Sometimes, we enter a store determined to find a bargain. Other times, like when we&#8217;re in a hurry, we couldn&#8217;t care less. But increasingly, the retail world is becoming so sensitive that it can react to — and create — hour to hour price fluctuations on consumer goods. Have you noticed that those traditional printed price tags on the shelves of supermarkets and big-box stores like Costco and Wal-Mart are being replaced by digital pricing displays? You probably assumed this was for the sake of efficiency, which it is in part. But it&#8217;s also so that they can respond to shifts in commodities markets — coffee beans, oranges — in a matter of moments. Similarly they are changing their prices to accommodate fluctuations in the store’s traffic. Supermarkets, for example, have<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=4246&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Salman Khan: The New Andrew Carnegie?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2011/11/16/salman-kahn-the-new-andrew-carnegie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie Murphy Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Salman Khan, your child’s new teacher. If you haven&#8217;t heard of Khan, rest assured that your son or daughter is in good hands. He has four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard. He got a perfect score on the math portion of his SAT. And he&#8217;s very experienced, having taught more than 85 million lessons to students all over the world. Khan is the former hedge fund manager who set out to tutor his young cousin in math with a homemade video he posted online. From that modest beginning has grown the Khan Academy, a free online library of more than 2,700 videos offering instruction in everything from algebra to computer science to art history. Running the nonprofit academy is now Khan&#8217;s full-time job, and he plans to expand the enterprise further, adding more subject areas, more faculty members (until now, all the videos have been narrated by Khan himself) and translating the tutorials into the world&#8217;s most widely used languages. Much attention has been paid to the use of Khan Academy videos in classrooms. Hundreds of schools across the U.S. have integrated his lessons into their curricula, often using them to &#8220;flip&#8221; the classroom: students watch the videos at home in the evening, then work on problem sets — what would once have been homework — in class, where there are teachers to help and peers to interact with. The approach is promising, and it may well change the way American students are taught. (PHOTOS: The Evolution of the College Dorm) The real revolution represented by Khan Academy, however, has gone mostly unremarked upon. The new availability of sophisticated knowledge, produced by a trusted source and presented in an accessible fashion, promises to usher in a new golden age of the autodidact: the self-taught man or woman. Not just the Khan Academy, but also the nation’s top colleges and universities are giving away learning online. Khan’s alma mater, MIT, has made more than 2,000 of its courses available gratis on the Internet. Harvard, Yale,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=4052&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why &#8216;Data Smog&#8217; May Be Making You Depressed</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We  live in the Information Age. But I&#8217;ve never heard — nor would any sane person suggest — that we live in the Useful Information Age. The modern downpour of data is largely worthless distraction, and the sheer amount is drowning us. Of all of the ways in which the contemporary environment is mismatched with our genes and harms our emotional health, I believe the revolution in information delivery is the one most responsible for epidemic depression. Research so far is sparse but indicative: a 2005 Swedish study, for example, found associations between heavy communications technology use and &#8220;prolonged stress,&#8221; sleep disturbances and depressive symptoms in young adults. This torrent — and its psychological toll — might have some redeeming value if it proved useful to us. Clearly, some small percentage is useful, but the vast majority is not. Before the Internet, data had to undergo a Darwinian selection process before it reached the masses. Paper, ink and distribution cost money and time. That usually meant someone exerted quality control to ensure that whatever was communicated was worth buying. With distribution and consumption now virtually free, that constraint is gone. Francis Heylighen, a cyberneticist at the Free University of Brussels, wrote that the resulting explosion of &#8220;irrelevant, unclear, and simply erroneous data fragments&#8221; might best be termed &#8220;data smog.&#8221; (MORE: Daniel Goleman: They&#8217;ve Taken Emotional Intelligence Too Far) When the amount of low-quality information coming at people exceeds certain real but difficult-to-quantify limits, they suffer. They are likely to ignore or forget information they need and to be less in control of their lives as a result. Neuroscientist Torkel Klingberg&#8217;s excellent 2008 book, The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory, cites research showing that &#8220;there is a fixed capacity for human beings to receive information, and that this limit lies at around seven items,&#8221; a number routinely exceeded in the modern workplace, leading to forgetfulness, distractability and disorganization. In the long term, bad-information overload increases stress, with many negative consequences for physical and emotional health. If the information<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=3712&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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