I’m happy to announce that W. W. Norton & Company has agreed to publish my first book, Rewire: Rethinking Globalization in an Age of Connection.… Read More »Rewire: Rethinking Globalization in an Age of Connection
This week started for me with a huge event in my family’s life – after six years of study, my wife was ordained with a… Read More »A reflection on Tunisia
George Brock (Professor and Head of Journalism at City University London, long time writer and editor for the Times of London) has a thoughtful and… Read More »Brock’s insights on the Tunisia media attention disparity
On December 17, a 26 year old Tunisian man named Mohamed Bouazizi reached the end of his rope. An unemployed university graduate, Bouazizi had become… Read More »What if Tunisia had a revolution, but nobody watched?
My beloved wife, the Velveteen Rabbi, is now a real rabbi. She was ordained on Sunday by the Jewish Renewal movement, a group founded by… Read More »From Velveteen to Real
Regional dialects are alive and well on Twitter: Slang terms like y'all, yinz, koo, coo and suttin predict location of tweet authors Very clever. Using… Read More »links for 2011-01-08