Thirtysomething

Writing good directions is not unlike poetry: an exercise in awareness, requiring an eye for detail and succinct but evocative language

When are we, as users, going to start self-curating ourselves?  Because these products aren’t going to do it.  Facebook and Twitter and Google and Groupon aren’t going to build tools that will allow you to slow down...

My gripe with movies and books like these is that it gives our entitled selves a false sense of security.  Exploring the world in these constructs mean visiting the tourist trails and ticking off checklists.

Your photos already carry the narrative elements of who, what, where, when and how whenever you upload them to Flickr. Browse Flickr and you’ll see stories within stories — photos within photostreams within groups or any kinds of combinations. So we’ve made it easier to find when a photo

From the Editorial Observer: This represents a shift away from the view of education as the process of intellectual engagement through which we learn to think critically and toward the view of education as mere training. In training, you are trying to find the right answer at any cost, not

The democratization of media also affects our governance.  The bright klieg lights of 24 hour news, tips, blog updates and tweets surfaces the seedy affairs, hypocrisies, warts and ugliness of our political system – frankly, those stories have always been there, hidden from view.