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ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus.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.

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

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

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

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.

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.

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