The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so.

Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.

The Internet is corporations all the way down.

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.