As Charlotte digs out of the recession and banking crisis, one of the nation's leading digital-age thinkers is headed to town to talk about how the city can survive in a world of rising "supercities."
If you're just getting comfortable with Facebook and Twitter, you might want to brace yourself: Foursquare, the hottest among a rising new class of social networks, is gaining ground in Charlotte.
If you're into Twitter, you'll want to mark your calendar for the next monthly CLTweetup. For the uninitiated, that's when Charlotte-area Twitter users get together in person for their monthly social - a "tweetup."
For some in the tech world, nothing ranks quite as high on the professional "bucket list" as making a pilgrimage to the annual TED conference in California.
Observer reporter Eric Frazier puts one of today's biggest stories -- the burgeoning phenomenon of social networking and digital media -- under the microscope.
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