Four years after the publication of the final installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and on the day of that film's debut, Harry and all his friends—not to mention his enemies, minor acquaintances and a few of his forebears—are still leading extremely active lives online in the form of fan-made fiction and inspired media. The series has long enjoyed one of the biggest, most productive and considerably vocal fandoms on the Internet, not surprising as its publication coincided with the wider blossoming of the web. READ MORE

Hadi is showing me pictures from epic-looking parties. Men and women dance, their bodies caught in ecstatic pause. The women are, for the most part, rather scantily clad: microscopic skirts dominate, and belly shirts that show a good deal of taut belly. Their faces are masterworks of make-up art: streaks of vibrant color rising to the eyebrow, glitter and blush and outlined lips. They move, the partiers, with abandon, heads tipped back, preening and laughing. The pictures are from Iran. READ MORE

My nominee for Most American Person of the Decade is Lauren Conrad, ex-star of MTV's "The Hills," New York Times best-selling Young Adult author, television personality, celebutante, clothing designer and unswerving embodiment of the American dream. READ MORE

Tonight, Yahoo! will shut down Geocities, the free webhosting service that was a mainstay in many of our early internet adventures. It's sad-particularly for Yahoo!, since they paid $3.9 billion in stock for it ten years ago-but the good news is that there's still time to save your old fanfiction from dotcom obscurity. READ MORE