I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.

Journalists don't have audiences, they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.