People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

There's plenty of rude stuff online. People say things online that they would be ashamed to say face to face. If people could treat others as though they were speaking face to face, that would be huge.

When I was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, this is where the space and rocket center was. This is where all of the German rocket scientists came after war and started designing rockets for NASA, for the moon landing and all that.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

Dialing down is not an option for me.