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

Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.

On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before. And it's a way of essentially saying, I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

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.

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

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.