Recent Media Posts
The hierarchy of innovation
"If you could choose only one of the following two inventions, indoor plumbing or the Internet, which would you choose?" -Robert J. Gordon Justin Fox is the latest pundit to… Read more »
Maybe newsrooms need to kick the front page habit
I recently did an email Q&A with Charles Duhigg, the New York Times reporter who wrote The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business… Read more »
Social production guru, heal thyself
I was pleased to see that Yochai Benkler launched a blog on Monday - and, since the first (and as yet only) post was a response to my claim of… Read more »
My iPad setup
Over at the Interchange Project I detail — and I mean detail –my iPad setup, which is a key part of my writing workflow: A big part of what I… Read more »
FarmVille: a Gothic fantasia
"You built it yourself, with play-labor, but politically it’s a slum." -Bruce Sterling 1 Hardware is a problem. It wears out. It breaks down. It is subject to physical forces… Read more »
On writing
This was originally posted over at the Interchange Project. This is my second day using the Das Keyboard full time. I can’t tell if this is on account of me… Read more »
The cloud without the Internet isn’t very useful
Over at the Interchange Project, I write about how I wanted to watch a movie on Friday night that I had purchased and was storing in the cloud but couldn’t… Read more »
The economics of digital sharecropping
With a reported 900 million active members, Facebook is, by far, the largest digital-sharecropping operation that the internet has yet produced. About one out of every eight people on the… Read more »
Why you can't trust tech press to teach you about the tech industry
If there were one lesson I'd want to impress upon people who are interested in succeeding in the technology industry, it would be, as I've... Read more »
How To Fix Popchips' Racist Ad Campaign
Update: I just got off the phone with Popchips founder Keith Belling, who was sincere and contrite as he offered a thoughtful, apologetic response that... Read more »
