This Week's Top Stories

Hi David, Hope you're having a great weekend :) As requested, these are this week's top stories from The Next Web: CNN to buy social media blog Mashable for $200 million+, a 'little bird' tells Reuters reporter Belgian rightsholders group wants to charge libraries for READING BOOKS TO KIDS Twitter has acquired shortform blogging company Posterous, Spaces will remain up and running for now Wikipedia and the Internet just killed 244-year-old Encyclopaedia Britannica Newly redesigned Pinterest profile pages go live Google+ is becoming a beast for the workplace, Google Docs now available in Hangouts Fans would rather engage with brands on Facebook than Twitter, says study Anonymous has just released its own operating system: Anonymous-OS See you at The Next Web Conference (April 26-27) in Amsterdam? We're taking it to the next level! The Next Web  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | view email in browser

Top Stories from the last 24 hours

Hi David, These are the top stories from The Next Web over the last 24 hours. The EU wants your ideas on making Europe a better place for startups Roman Andreev from Russia wins Facebook Hacker Cup by only one minute 10 small agencies that define "Digital Spring" in San Francisco TNW Profile: Unity CEO David Helgason talks about trends in gaming, and his business Baby got tech: Today's children growing up in a world of gadgets The World Wide Soapbox: Let freedom of speech flourish, but don't feed the trolls 6 cool activities taking place on Google+ right now How to avoid the social media time suck See you at The Next Web Conference (April 26-27) in Amsterdam? We're taking it to the next level! The Next Web P.S. Want to be the first of your friends and followers to spread our breaking news stories? Now you can, with Spread.us.  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | view email in browser

The Browser daily newsletter [17 Mar 2012]

Daily Newsletter       17 March 2012  Best of the Moment The Emperor Uncrowned Vinod Jose | Caravan | 1 March 2012 I've just come back from India, where patrician Congress politicians of old have been replaced by a new generation of populists. Some are empty vessels; others are authoritarian and dangerous. Narendra Modi runs the state of Gujarat Comments Cambodia: Beyond The Killing Fields Christopher Hudson | Telegraph | 16 March 2012 Hudson visits The Killing Fields: "No birds sing. It is bouncy underfoot, as if you are treading on invisible hands pushing upwards towards the surface." But despite the horrors of its past, Cambodia is moving on with optimism Comments The Villain Roger Lowenstein | Atlantic | 12 March 2012 Big Ben Bernanke profile. The title is ironic, of course. Portrayed here as modest hero who has repositioned the Federal Reserve to successfully counter an economy-wide collapse while under political attack from left and right Comments Is Silence Going Extinct? Kim Tingley | NYT | 15 March 2012 One way to find out: Head to a remote region of Denali national park in Alaska and record the sounds. The result? In five years of continuous recording, there were only 36 days free from the sound of an internal combustion engine Comments The Chinese Campaign Gets Dirty Evan Osnos | New Yorker | 15 March 2012 Bo Xilai, perhaps the Communist Party's most charismatic politician, has been forced out of his job as Party secretary in Chongqing without explanation or warning. This blog is a compelling mix of speculation, analysis and context Comments Plots Have I Laid Catherine Peters | Literary Review | 5 March 2012 "Even in his twenties Wilkie Collins looked 'weird and odd'. His head and shoulders were unusually large, but his hands and feet were tiny." Nonetheless he was charming, irresistible to women, and a talented storyteller Comments  FiveBooks Interview Andy Borowitz on Comic Writing Do you have to be cruel to be comedic? It often helps, says the bestselling humour writer, who tells us about five novels (and one presidential contender) that are enough to make anyone laugh  Featured Special Report Moral Philosophy Can we have morality without God? Does surveillance make us better? Do babies have morals? Get to grips with some big questions of right and wrong  Reader Recommendations @whitebluewhite Apple as a giant black hole and a hegemonic swarm #browsings #masseffect t.co/rSXkMnqB  Book of the Day Master and Man and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy Rosamund Bartlett says: “The main character in What Men Live By is an angel punished by God for refusing to take a woman’s life. The story is charming, the moral worn lightly”  Video of the Day Religion, Evolution, And The Ecstasy Of Self-Transcendence Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: Why do we search for self-transcendence?  Quote of the Day Alison Lurie, on illness "An occupational hazard of the medical profession is a tendency to overestimate the prevalence of illness" | Homepage | Mobile Apps | RSS Feeds | Twitter | Facebook | Privacy Policy | Contact Us | Having trouble reading this email? View it in your browser. You are receiving this email because you signed up for the Best of the Moment newsletter on thebrowser.com. Click here to unsubscribe The Browser Ltd, 106 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 6PF

Box Office Report: '21 Jump Street' Wins Friday With $13.1 Mil, Dethrones 'Lorax'

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March 17, 2012 Box Office Report: '21 Jump Street' Wins Friday With $13.1 Mil, Dethrones 'Lorax' The R-rated comedy is headed for a stellar $34 million to $36 million weekend if business holds up; Disney's ill-fated "John Carter" falls 60 percent on its second Friday. More news: Top Stories | Movies | TV | Music | Tech | Style | The Business | Awards

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Cheat Sheet - How Mike Daisey's Zeal Got the Best of Him

Today: Staff Sgt. Bales to be Charged, Car Bombs Strike Damascus, Juror: Ravi ‘Actually Confessed’ March 17, 2012 FABULIST 1. How Mike Daisey's Zeal Got the Best of Him His stories of Apple factory horrors in China were based in truth, even if the details were lies. As NPR's "This American Life" devotes an episode to retracting Daisey's story, Jacob Bernstein reports on his undoing. Read it at The Daily Beast JUSTICE 2. Staff Sgt. Bales to be Charged Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the American soldier allegedly responsible for killing 16 Afghan civilians last week, could be formally charged with murder as early as Saturday. Bales, 38, arrived late Friday night at a military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kans., after being identified Friday. U.S. officials said Bales won’t necessarily be tried in the U.S., as the Afghan government is demanding court proceedings be held in Afghanistan. Bales, a married father of two, has a clean record of conduct, officials said. He had been deployed to Iraq three times where he suffered a traumatic brain injury before he was sent to Afghanistan. Read it at ABC News SYRIA 3. Car Bombs Strike Damascus Two bombs hit the Syrian capital of Damascus early Saturday morning, killing at least 27 security forces and civilians, according to state-run TV, which broadcast an awful scene of bloody carnage. The blasts reportedly came from car bombs targeting the government’s aviation-intelligence department and criminal-security department buildings. A reporter from the Associated Press said shooting broke out shortly after the blasts—the latest in a string of suicide bombings that have killed dozens of people since late December. As usual, President Bashar al-Assad’s regime said “terrorist forces” behind the yearlong uprising were responsible for the attacks, though the opposition says government forces had strategically set up the bombings to tarnish their reputation. Read it at Reuters GUILTY 4. Juror: Ravi ‘Actually Confessed’ Jurors in the Dharun Ravi case said Friday that they used Ravi’s own words to convict him of invasion of privacy and other crimes. “The fact that he actually confessed in his statement, which was very intellectual to us—because how can we go against his word?” said Kashad Leverett, 20, one of the 12 jurors in the case. Ravi was convicted Friday of invasion of privacy as well as bias intimidation, a hate crime, after he used a webcam to spy on his roommate, Tyler Clementi, having a sexual encounter with a man. Clementi killed himself after the incident. Ravi had previously rejected a plea deal that would have spared him any jail time or the threat of deportation. He is scheduled to be sentenced on May 21. Meanwhile, legal experts said Friday that Ravi could face “serious risk” of deportation, since he is a legal resident of the U.S. but not a citizen. Read it at ABC News INTERVENTION 5. China Pressures North Korea In a rare display of public pressure, China expressed “worry” to ally North Korea over the country’s planned satellite and rocket launch, which is raising tension in the region and could break a recent aid deal with the U.S. Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua said Deputy Foreign Minister Zhang Hijun met with Pyongyangs’s ambassador on Saturday to discourage the launch, which is planned for April to mark the 100th birthday of its late leader Kim Il-sung, grandfather of current leader Kim Jong-un. In a report released Saturday, Zhang said he hoped North Korea would “exercise restraint and avoid escalation of tension that may lead to a more complicated situation.” Read it at BBC OOPS Fed Miscalculated ‘Stress Tests’ Revises loss estimates for Citigroup, other banks. NSFW Santorum: Shirtless Photos Are Real Taken while in Puerto Rico. TRIAL Lawyer: Goldman Exec Leaked Secrets In insider-trading trial of Rajat Gupta. AMBITIOUS Assange to Run for Australian Senate WikiLeaks founder plans bid under house arrest. SHAMROCK America's 13 Luckiest States Where can Americans find their lucky charms? The Daily Beast looks at lottery numbers. GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET The Yes List Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. College Sports Programs Don’t Deserve the Bad Rap They Routinely Receive by Michael Tomasky James Barrett on ‘The Irish Way,’ How the Irish Influenced U.S. Cities by James R. Barrett ‘50 Shades of Grey,’ a Self-Published E-Book, Is the Future of Publishing by Lizzie Skurnick

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