The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.

The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying.

I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

Information wants to eat brie.