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.

Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

Creativity is an import-export business.

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.