Craig Kanalley

Senior Editor, Big News & Live Events, The Huffington Post

Over the course of the past week, we witnessed the power of real-time news reporting with a major story. Here's a look back at 50 tweets, including 15 pictures, and five YouTube videos (one for each day) that tell the story of the Boston Marathon bombing, from beginning to end.

Chris Anderson

Curator of TED

We at TED would like to respond here to some of the questions raised in an letter from Deepak Chopra, Stuart Hameroff, Menas C. Kafatos, Rudolph E. Tanzi and Neil Theise.

Devra Davis, Ph.D.

President and Founder, Environmental Health Trust, lecturer, San Francisco, London

San Francisco's law made sense at the time it was passed and makes more sense now. And even if the city decides to stop reinforcing this particular law, they still have the power to inform the public through ad campaigns that rely on old and new social media.

Beth Carter

Experienced executive, business and career coach; Founder, Beth Carter Enterprises

What happens though when companies want their employees to be so plugged in that the employees are stressed and can't feel "they can get away from their work?"

Randi Zuckerberg

Founder and CEO, Zuckerberg Media; Editor-In-Chief, Dot Complicated

As parents, if we are going through all this effort to install these apps on our children's phones, we need to make sure we don't turn around and engage in the same harmful behavior ourselves.

Steve Hamby

Chief Technology Officer, Orbis Technologies, Inc.

Efficacy is defined succinctly as the ability to generate a desired or intended effect. Organizations manage data primarily to enable informed decisions. Thus, "Data Efficacy" is, in essence, the ability for organizations to manage data in such a way to drive informed decisions.

Jonah Berger

Author, 'Contagious: Why Things Catch On'

Generating word of mouth or getting something to go viral sometimes seems like magic. Like catching lightning in a bottle. But it's not. By understanding the science behind social influence you can make your own products and ideas contagious.

James Altucher

Financial Columnist and Managing Director, Formula Capital

I limped out of the meeting and said, "excuse me", and took the elevator down 67 stories, went to Grand Central, limped home, and never went back to work at that job.

The Daily Meal

TheDailyMeal.com

"There's an app for that." Cooking has spread beyond the pages of a cookbook and into our hearts through magazines, television and computers, and now we can even find cooking on our phones.

Sarah Hall

CEO@Harley&Co - Marketing, Strategy + PR

In places like America, many of us take for granted that we walk around every day with a pocket sized source of limitless information and decision making companion.

Huff TV

Roy stopped by Bloomberg TV Wednesday night to chat about "the brave new world" of journalism in the age of social media. Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms impact the way news breaks and as Roy noted, it's not always a positive impact.

John W. Whitehead

Attorney, President of The Rutherford Institute, and author of A Government of Wolves (due out in April 2013)

America will never be a "no drone zone." There was a small glimmer of hope that these aerial threats to privacy would not come home to roost, but that all ended when Barack Obama took office and made drones the cornerstone of his war efforts.

Victor Pickard

Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication

Does it matter who chairs the Federal Communications Commission? People might be forgiven if they think it doesn't, especially as President Obama considers a former corporate lobbyist to head the agency.

Austin Grossman

Writer, Videogame Designer

In fact, no one knows what video games can do.

James Grundvig

CEO/Founder, CloudNician LLC

Two weeks after the GigaOm Conference on Structure Data in New York, Gerstein Fisher held its annual Real Talk series. The subject of the investment management firm's lecture followed GigaOm's footsteps, as if by design.

VisualNews.com

A place where you can find daily visual inspiration from around the world.

There is no doubt that technology assimilation continues to get younger, but who knew it was getting this young?

Café McMullen

Educator

Are teachers and classrooms an archaic view of education? Are we evolving past the norm we have seen for as long as we can remember? I have to say the teacher in me is not quite ready to sign on to this view whole-heartedly yet.