If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

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

It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.

I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google Maps. I probably eat and sleep better when I'm on the road, but I miss the mystery of travel when it was more random and unpredictable.

Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.

The Internet is corporations all the way down.