The Connector: How Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg rewired our world and changed the way we live: A short biography of TIME's 2010 Person of the Year

eWeek recently said this about Time Magazine's bestowing its "Person of the Year" honor to Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg:

Now that Mark Zuckerberg has been given the rare honor of being named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, perhaps it’s time to reflect on how this young man moved from creating a Website to help college students connect to building Facebook into a global social and cultural phenomenon. According to some analysts, Zuckerberg’s Facebook is accessed by one-tenth of the human population, a number that’s sure to grow. This is a signal achievement in human as well as computing history. But in addition to its influence on the lives of all those users, Facebook has insinuated itself into virtually every part of life and commerce. A quick look at Google News shows a range of separate stories about Facebook, from its integration with Bing to it use of facial recognition to tag photos. There are stories about the Time magazine story, of course, and about 1,500 other stories on this event.

Charlie Rose's Monday, July 5, 2010 conversation with with Lev Grossman

CHARLIE ROSE: Joining me now to talk about summer books is Lev Grossman, author and book critic for "Time" magazine. I’m pleased to have him at this table to introduce us to what you might be reading this summer. So welcome.

LEV GROSSMAN: Thank you.

CHARLIE ROSE: Where do we start? What do you think will be the big commercial success this summer that we’ll see everybody reading on the beach?

LEV GROSSMAN: Well, I believe and also kind of hope that it will be Justin Cronin’s "The Passage." Justin Cronin is probably not a writer who you are intimately familiar with. He is what call is called these days a midlist literary writer who a couple years ago had an inspiration for a horrific vampire apocalypse novel, and he wrote it.

Read the full transcript here. Watch the full Charlie Rose interview here.