Occupation: Journalist Birth: January 18, 1949
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price..
One of the reasons that I'm a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I'm delivering something to the competition that I ou….
I don't have dating tips..
There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter..
Twitter and Facebook are brilliant- tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting mater….
Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from... from... wait, what was I s….
Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it..
The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements..
I'm a Capricorn, actually..
The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions..
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises..
Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice..
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid..
Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to jou….
My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the prob….
I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media..
Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may ex….
I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it..
Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love..