A little before 9pm on Wednesday night and I'm standing on the 'VIP' balcony of San Francisco's Regency Ballroom, holding a can of something called 'MySpace Buzz' and waiting for Weezer to take to the stage. It's a weird scene, all told, and not just because I thought Weezer was dead. The bulk of the weirdness stems from the make-up of the crowd: a dozen feet below me in the main auditorium there are maybe a couple of thousand writhing teenagers - Weezer fans to a (wo)man, cheering and shouting and jumping and sweating and doing all ...

Although Facebook recently admitted that Twitter was in its rear-view mirror, it appears that Twitter may be moving out of eyeshot. September's U.S. comScore data has just been released and it appears that the gap between Facebook and Twitter is widening. Facebook grew by over 3 million unique visitors during the month of September, from 92.2 million unique visitors in August to 95.5 unique visitors in September. Twitter, on the other hand, is completely flatlining, barely growing over the past month. In August, Twitter received 20.8 million unique visits in the U.S. compared to ...

Why did that once-wealthy nation do so poorly over the last century? Education, education, education, an economist writes.