The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we’re usually filtering it out.
It’s becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we’re trying to get new groups of people talking.
Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.
It’s fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.
Curators are great, but they’re inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.
I’m not nearly as well organized as I would like. I am a creature of to-do lists and calendars – if something doesn’t get onto my Google Calendar, I don’t show up for it.
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
Talking about ‘stopping globalization’ is unrealistic – and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.
The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.
People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list – a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won’t work.