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Jenny has not returned my calls in roughly a year. She has, however, sent me a poinsettia, poked me and placed a gift beneath my Christmas tree. She's done all this virtually, courtesy of Facebook, the social-networking site on which users create profiles, gather "friends" and join common-interest groups, not to mention send digital gifts. Although Jenny has three children, ages 4 to 14, and rarely finds time for visits, phone calls or even e-mail, the full-time mom in upstate New York regularly updates her status on Facebook ("Jenny is fixing a birthday dinner," "Jenny...
...probably won't find out. Instead, I gave in. Last week I sent Jenny a note - through Facebook, naturally - requesting a get-together. She accepted. When we met up, it seemed like we were closer than I had thought. I knew about Jenny's son's part in the school play, her sledding expedition and what she'd cooked for that big birthday dinner - information we would have shared if we still lived in the same neighborhood and talked regularly, the inane and intimate details that add up to life. The constant stream of data is a digital form...
...golden light. The family-in-peril angle is also a change from Duncan's story. While Andi and Bruce's kindly social-services caseworker Bernie (Don Cheadle, who could have phoned this in but didn't) would like to keep the siblings together, they live in fear of being sent to separate foster homes. The parallel between the human strays and their canine counterparts is obvious but sweet...
Steve Jobs' announcement that he will take a six-month leave of absence from Apple to tend to "health-related issues" has sent the company's stock tumbling and gadget-lovers pouring into online forums to gossip on the gravity of Jobs' condition. It's only natural that Apple's fans would fret: in Silicon Valley, Jobs is a mock-turtleneck-clad deity, a leader synonymous with his company's brand - and its success. But analysts believe Apple will be in good hands while the CEO convalesces. The man stepping into Jobs' New Balance sneakers, chief operating officer Tim Cook...
...Barack Obama is reprising the call to service. But rather than using television, he has sent out his message primarily over the Internet, through millions of e-mails, hundreds of thousands of YouTube views and a new social-networking site created by his Inaugural committee. "I will ask all Americans to make a renewed commitment to serving their community and their country," the President-elect announced this week in a video posted online. "Just visit USAService.org to find service projects in your community, or even organize your own around the causes you care about." (See 21 ways to serve America...