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Reading While Eating for December 14: Daily Diversions

Wednesday’s links pull you through the week with podcasts and puppies.

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Six Basic Twitter Reactions to ‘The Protester’ as TIME’s Person of the Year

Every year, we field criticism and praise for our pick of the most influential Person of the Year. According to Twitter, these were the most common reactions to our selection this year.

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan: People’s Choice for TIME’s 2011 Person of the Year

The Turkish Prime Minister was the most popular — and the least popular — in our annual online poll.

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Reading While Eating for 11-11-11: Making a Statement

Friday’s links round out the week with Indian action stars and seriously questionable style.

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Who Should Be TIME’s 2011 Person of the Year? Our Panel Sounds Off

Made up of actors, newsmen and Crocs-sporting chefs, our panel members had plenty of opinions.

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Exclusive Facebook Photos: Inside the Brain of the Social Network

TIME magazine recently named Mark Zuckerberg the second-youngest “Person of the Year” in the publication’s history. As part of the POY coverage, our colleagues were allowed into the brain of Facebook.

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Exclusive Video – Working With Zuckerberg: We Spend A Day With Facebook’s Profile Team

It’s 11:30 a.m. on a Wednesday morning. While average users flock to their Facebook account to brush up on the latest news stories or profile updates, the Facebook team in Palo Alto, Calif. conducts some serious business.

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Facebook Watch: Former Business Partner Sues the Winklevi

In a twisted turn of karmic legal events, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the 29-year-old twins who succeeded in extracting a reported $65 million from Facebook CEO (and TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year) Mark Zuckerberg, are now embroiled in another legal battle — only this time, they’re on the receiving end.

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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, Tells World He’s TIME’s Person of the Year – Via Facebook

So if you were second youngest person to ever be named TIME’s Person of the Year, and the inventor of Facebook, where would you break the news? (Hint: Wait, you need a hint?)

A worker sits inside a shop at a wholesale iron market in Kolkata December 13, 2010. Iron ore exports from India's key Karnataka state are likely to fall 67 percent in the year to end in March 2011 due to a ban on exports that has hit supplies to the global market and hardened prices, a trade body official said on Monday.

Reading While Eating for December 14: It’s a Jolly Holiday with Snooki

Tuesday’s links go Gaga.