Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

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.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.

You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.

See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure.