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@Joe DiMaggio2011 Check out today’s fun crossword on Joe’s Facebook Page.

@David_Rogers has a free webinar next Thursday, February 24 to discuss the lessons from his book The Network Is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age.

Hollywood Sign: The famous icon is ever a tweetable mention. @amanduhh417 @Miss_Savory @DJSamSneaker are among the many to pass it today. With the Oscars coming up next weekend, we’re getting ready with Leo Braudy’s The Hollywood Sign: Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon.

@AlisaCosta @kaydora1 @RichardAlbert: February 18, 1688 marked the first formal protest against slavery. Meanwhile, revolution was brewing in England. What a year! (February 18, 1861 was the inauguration of Jefferson Davis as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.)

@David_Rogers: Everyone is abuzz with the Network Is Your Customer book launch, free chapters, reviews, and most importantly, grabbing a copy! Learn more on Twitter with #TNIYC and #sobelbrite hashtags, and be sure to check out the author’s site to catch up!

@Drudge_Report: Headlines like Matt Drudge’s “EGYPT ON THE BRINK” abound after protests erupted, calling for the end of President Mubarak’s term. Tarek Osman, author of our newly published Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to Mubarak, has now written an op-ed for CNN.com on the current political climate.

@rearraigh75 is being tempted to renew his New York Review of Books subscription by the recent review of The Anthology of Rap.

@princetonupress is thinking about happiness this week on their blog, too. What can we say: our authors go together.

Representing Justice from coast to coast: @atrzop at Harvard chatted up Dennis Curtis and @SLSlib_newbooks at Stanford celebrates the new addition to their collection.

@Jason_M_Kelly is talking about his book The Society of Dilettanti: Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment at IUPUI on April 7. Sign up now to reserve space and lunch.

@lynchcartoons ponders why a 3 year old post about Ivan Brunetti’s 1999 article “I Almost Drew Nancy” in Roctober magazine is getting more attention. Could be that people are getting anxious about to bookend Brunetti’s perspective and experience with the soon-to-be published, Cartooning: Practice and Philosophy?

It’s the return of YUP’s Follow Friday!

@bencarp is hanging out with YUP staff at our AHA booth, with tea, coffee, and cookies.

@3PennyMovies gets into the quirky lunar folklore of Bernd Bruner’s Moon.

@ChrisMacDen is anxiously awaiting his copy of The Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade after reading Michelle Alexander’s new book The New Jim Crow.

@mcnallyjackson hosted David Swanson with Mark Crispin Miller, editor of our Icons of America series, for a conversation on Swanson’s War Is a Lie; Michael Takiff to talk about A Complicated Man; and the editors of the Paris Review.

More great links this week:

@jonathasmello clues us in on John Cage's rather strange dietary habits through the video posted above.

@drshow (The Diane Rehm Show) links to their interview with Taliban author Ahmed Rashid while @WashUnplugged prepares for their Monday airing.

@Fictional 100 and @celticglambert both recommend Alberto Manguel's A Reader on Reading.