Category Archives: Science + Tech

There is a five-minute version of this clip that traces the entire conversation right here. I suggest seeing the whole thing. Also, this clip below cuts off the best part of the conversation. The last 5 seconds makes the entire … Continue reading →

I gave a talk to the Indiana Public Relations Leadership Seminar on Friday, April 16. But I also recorded a version of that talk for a Communication class at Ball State University. I’ll unlock the video in a few days. … Continue reading →

Here’s what 1/2 a penny on the dollar buys you, according to astrophysicists Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you listen to nothing else, skip to the 4 minute mark. The best examples of why technologists point out that the future technology … Continue reading →

The last two years have been instructive for me professionally. When I began working on The Cult of Me, I had every intention of writing a book about how the news industry could save itself from implosion. I thought it … Continue reading →

I was 28 when I graduated from Berkeley. 30 when I left Wired (and San Francisco). I bring that up because 10 years later (or 8 years later if you’re doing the math), I don’t feel particularly smarter than I … Continue reading →

I’m angry. Well, angry isn’t exactly what I am. It’s not Hulk Smash anger. It’s some weird combination of frustrations, annoyance, alone-ness and emptiness wrapped into a people sandwich. Why? The continued insistence that the world that I exist within … Continue reading →

<1> Last week, I gave a presentation at the Popular Culture Association that didn’t go very well. It was the first public presentation of a project that Brian McNely, Matt Mullins and I had worked on for the better part … Continue reading →

In response to the work Brian, Matt and I presented this past weekend (which is now behind a password-protected wall), my friend Evan Ratliff forwarded me this essay written in Harper’s a few years back. It’s a treatise on influence, … Continue reading →