Since the levees collapsed, I've been reading the local newspaper, the Times-Picayune, watching and listening to the local media, which, post-disaster, have rediscovered their mission to make local news more than a recitation of the previous day's murders, car crashes and celebrity misbehaviors.

CNN: Commentary: Does Obama care about New Orleans?

Social networking in a corporate environment should now be a listening exercise rather than a post-a-day marathon.

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Perhaps even more so because I have been listening to the dialogue about how to make America more post-racial -- mostly as it pertains to black and white culture -- for so long that it never occurred to me that an Asian immigrant family might cry foul when their son fell in love with an all-American girl like me.

CNN: His parents said, 'Not with a white girl'

Britain's major banks now share information on attempted cyber-attacks and hold regular meetings with officials from the UK's secret listening post GCHQ, the Public Accounts Committee was told.

BBC: Al-Qaeda lacks expertise for cyberwar, expert tells MPs