Tell us what you really think. Voting closes Friday! UPDATE: Though the comments you leave in the "Other" field do not show up publicly, they are being logged. I'll post those next week when the poll closes. Everyone and your grandma has hopped on the Twitter bandwagon. How do you feel about this communication revolution? ( polls) … [Read more...]

During one of my first panels here at the Conference on World Affairs, someone in the audience threw out the idea that perhaps society was crawling so far up into our technology that we were losing the ability to interact on old-fashioned, face-to-face terms. Were we doomed? Sounds like a reasonable fear, but considering even just the people I've met at this conference so far, in reality nothing seems further from the truth. Selfishly, I report that I am having an amazing time up here in the … [Read more...]

After watching this cover of "Creep", I got a little nostalgic and looked up the original Radiohead video from (gasp) 1992. I listened over and over, clicking for a replay every time the last notes died away. Part of my fascination was the emotional lockbox I had forgotten I'd left inside music that was part of my high school life. Lots of fun stuff to kick around and blow dust off of in there! But when that was over and done, something was still scratching at me. Sure it helps that Jonny … [Read more...]

I'm off to Boulder on Sunday to serve as a panelist for the 61st Annual Conference on World Affairs (April 6-10)! I know! Why the hell would they have asked me?!? Public speaking makes me incredibly nervous, so usually when people are kind enough to invite me to sit on panels and suchlike, my first thought is how to graciously get out of it. But then I tend to find the people and the topics so damn interesting I just can't resist (this also explains how I've been talked into a few New Year's Eve … [Read more...]