The New Family Album

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M.I.T.'s Turkle agrees that we have seen only the beginning of the trend. "When my 12-year-old daughter was born, I was completely besotted and kept a diary, which I now share with her," she says. "But I wouldn't have dreamed of putting it on the Internet. Families today are creating a whole new way of using the Web that I don't think anyone could have predicted." Nor do most parents themselves predict that they will be the next ones to blog on. But first you get the digital camera, and the next thing you know, you're e-mailing baby pics, and soon you are blah, blah, blogging.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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