Creativity is an import-export business.

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

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.

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.

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.

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.

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.