Connected enjoys the prestige of being Editor’s Choice in the New York Times Book Review & one of Business Week’s Top 20 Innovation Books of the Year.

Professional s##! talker, Baron Vaughn, sits down each week with a friend or an expert (sometimes they’re the same) to talk through big life themes on his recently launched podcast, Deep S##! w/ Baron Vaughn.  He’s been blogging his hilarious experiences, poetry, and wit on since 2005, and in 2012 will b launching the B-Vlog.

Left | The Roybal Center for the Study of Social Networks and Well Being at Harvard investigates in detail the effects and the interplay of social networks and geographic area on health and health care

Right | Michael Laub’s biology research lab at MIT to which he and his post-docs can contribute without any knowledge of building websites

Myq Kaplan is a 2010 Last Comic Standing Finalist, is on TV quite a lot, and released an iTunes top selling Comedy album last year.

The difference between the prestigious world of academia by day and the late-night stand-up comedy and entertainment world is quite a chasm, but a single philosophy in web design unites them.