A number of people wrote in late last year to ask what I thought of the NEA report on declining literacy, To Read Or Not To Read, in the light of my arguments in Everything Bad Is Good For You…

Our busy family trip to Northern California last week meant that I didn’t get a chance to link to George Will’s excellent (and very flattering) column about beer and civilization, “Survival of the Sudsiest”:

The development of…

I’ve mentioned in passing here (and on Twitter) that I’ve been writing a new book this summer, and since I’m now several drafts into it, I figured it was about time I shared some more detailed news about the project. It’s a another book in the vein of The Ghost Map — an idea book wrapped…

This morning we announced our new partnership with the Washington Post: our buzzmaps for the DC area are now live on the Post site. As you’ll see, these maps are variations of the buzzmaps we’ve created for all the bloggers in our system: they’re tracking all the…

It’s an exciting day at outside.in: we’re going live with our StoryMaps, the first of many tools that we’re going to be offering local bloggers and publishers as part of our GeoToolkit. This is the StoryMap for stevenberlinjohnson.com:

I read a galley copy of Oliver Morton’s Eating The Sun: How Plants Power The Planet very quickly a few months ago, as I was finishing up Invention Of Air, in part because the two books have many shared obsessions, and because I knew I had a great deal to learn from Oliver’s writing and thinking. I was…

It’s been a very good six months at outside.in. We’ve launched Radar, our GeoToolkit platform, and just yesterday rolled out our API. And we’re starting to see our traffic numbers really take off at an amazing rate: our core site audience has grown 400% this year; more than a…