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Jim Zirin speaks with Nina Burleigh.

Author of a brilliant new book entitled “The Fatal Gift of Beauty,” Nina followed the Amanda Knox case from start to finish. She concludes that Knox’ Italian murder conviction, later overturned on appeal, was a total miscarriage of justice arguing that Knox was unfairly incriminated largely by ambiguous posts Knox and her boyfriend made on the Web.

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Jim Zirin speaks with Steven Wyer.

Internet misconduct has ruined reputations and lives. What do you do if your online identity is stolen? Or your privacy invaded? Suppose you are defamed? Can the truth ever catch up with the libel? The author of a brilliant new book, “Violated Online,” tells Jim how you can protect yourself, and even fight back, by remembering a few simple rules.

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Jim Zirin speaks with Bill Bratton.

When four days of rioting broke out in London last August with thugs mobilizing on the social media, the British government turned to our own Bill Bratton for advice in handling the violence, the street gangs and the Metropolitan Police. Bill explains his strategy to restore law and order in England.

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Jim Zirin speaks with Isobel Coleman.

The Mid-East expert just returned from Egypt where she waded through mobs of  protesters, interviewed autocrats, and drew some stark conclusions as to what Mubarak’s toppling means  for the foreign relations of the United States.

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Jim Zirin speaks with David Kirkpatrick.

The author of the bestseller, “The Facebook Effect,” tells the true story of the development of Facebook which you didn’t get in the hit movie.

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Jim Zirin speaks with Richard Susskind.

Susskind argues that the time charges oriented business model of the large law firm is flawed, and that if lawyers don’t reinvent themselves, and use technology to package their services, they will surely risk extinction.

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Jim Zirin speaks with Evgeny Morozov.

He tells Jim how dictatorships use the Net for their own repressive ends–and why the cyber-utopians have got it all wrong.

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Jim Zirin speaks with David Pogue.

He has over 1.2 million followers on Twitter.  When he Tweeted his posse, “I need a cure for hiccups right now,” he instantly received a torrent of suggestions.

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