I got my first I got my first Kindle last week, and have been toying around with it a little ever since. It is a very provocative little device, one of those technologies that — for all its imperfections — makes you realize that a whole new set of possibilities are just around the…

A few weeks after the book tour for The Invention of Air started to wind down, I got an email from an old friend who had spent some time with Bill Clinton at Davos. It was a quick note to report that Clinton had apparently spontaneously brought up my book in…

The editors at Yale University Press were nice enough to invite me to edit this year’s edition of Best Technology Writing. It’s a great collection of essays, by some of my very favorite writers, and I encourage you to pick up a copy. I wrote an opening essay for the book that tries to wrestle with…

I’d been meaning to do a follow-up post collecting the responses to my SXSW speech on “Old Growth Media And The Future of News,” but I kept putting it off because new articles and posts continued to roll in, and stitching them all together started to seem a little daunting…

In his essay introducing The Long Now Foundation, Brian Eno tells the
story of visiting a wealthy friend in her downtown loft, in an
otherwise destitute Manhattan neighborhood circa 1978:

This week’s cover of TIME features a story that I wrote about Twitter and innovation. Actually, that’s not quite right: this week’s cover features a tweet that I posted about the cover story I wrote for TIME about Twitter. I’ve been chuckling about this cover ever since…

I’ve been saying for a while now that for outside.in,
2009 has been the year of building platforms. We spent the first months
of the year building out our Outside.in For Publishers platform, which
is now used by more than a hundred news organizations around the
country. This fall…