The autopsy of a once-dominant site.

A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, savvy CEO.

An Iowa dad’s surprisingly short path from commentor to screenwriter.

On the popular iPhone app.

Just the day before, President Barack Obama had signed on and begun sending out photos. This seemed like a real sign that Instagram had arrived. Obama already has accounts on Flickr and Facebook. He (or his people) must have seen something unique and wonderful in Instagram’s audience, some way to reach people via that channel that it couldn’t through others. When the President joins your network, it’s news. And while it’s great news, it can be the kind of thing a company isn’t prepared for. But as it turns out, Obama is a fractional compared to Justin Bieber.

In a dark echo of Rear Window, a wheelchair-bound hacker seizes control of hundreds of webcams, most of them aimed at young women’s beds.

On the intersection of technology and revolt.

A profile of Christopher Soghoian whose “productions follow a similar pattern, a series of orchestrated events that lead to the public shaming of a large entity—Google, Facebook, the federal government—over transgressions that the 30-year-old technologist sees as unacceptable violations of privacy.”

Relying on programmers to map real world social connections is like “hiring a Mormon bartender” and other observations on why our strange urge to document the nodes of friendship is doomed.

Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook vs. Amazon.

In Silicon Valley, up all night coding in the dorms with the aspiring Mark Zuckerbergs of tomorrow.

A cautionary inquiry into the unchecked hive mind.

How a musical subculture evolved alongside a technological subculture:

Rave’s rise mirrors the Web’s in many ways. Both mixed rhetorical utopianism with insider snobbery. Both were future-forward “free spaces” with special appeal to geeks and wonks.