The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out..

The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be..

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well..

Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so..

[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in ….

The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C..

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want..

Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet..

The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal..

People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or li….

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine..

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications..

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people..

There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market..

I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never ….

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance..

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior..

Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention sugg….

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories..

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalizat….

It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking..