At a time when we’re sharing more and more on the web, Matt Buchanan wonders if deletion is the only way to privacy: http://nyr.kr/YkLXq0

millions of users of [Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks] have supplanted their profile pictures with that symbol to display their support and hope that the Justices will rule in favor of marriage equality…

…but how effective is this form of online activism? Matt Buchanan considers: http://nyr.kr/YJO5TP

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Cartoon by Ward Sutton. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/WqSOMI

Shouts & Murmurs: What if Facebook were Yelp? “Terrific friend, would definitely recommend her….I’ve spent years going to Jane for conversation and drinks. She’s got a GREAT vibe and REALLY knows how to listen.” 

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Cartoon by Harry Bliss. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/RlF99m

Twitter has been instrumental during past moments of political upheaval, typically as a means for citizens to communicate outside the wrath of oppressive states (such as in the Arab Spring). But news, and precedent, were broken here: this is a narration of real, physical violence by the agents of violence, all as the violence is being wrought. And this raises a number of questions for the start-up giants who founded the various platforms…

Emily Greenhouse writes “The Tweets of War,” on Israel’s and Hamas’s recent use of Twitter: http://nyr.kr/UDWiWL

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Earlier today we posted some favorites from Jesse Burke’s takeover of The New Yorker’s Instagram feed. Next up in our Instagram takeover series: Ed Kashi brings @newyorkermag to Aspen, Colorado, where he is spending the week teaching a photography workshop at Anderson Ranch: http://nyr.kr/SJA997

Last week, the photographer Jesse Burke took The New Yorker’s Instagram feed with him around New England, posting photos from wherever he went: a Vermont wedding, snorkeling on the coast of Rhode Island, and other adventures around his home in Providence with his two beautiful daughters and two odd-looking cats. 

Click-through for a slideshow of Burke’s images, and for his opinions on using Instagram as professional photographer: http://nyr.kr/ORo1Gs

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