One of the biggest sources of miscommunication is people having different styles of communication, or different norms about the right way to express emotion...

A year ago, I wrote about the launch of Gourmet Live by Condé Nast. It was a fascinating project for many reasons, ranging from the fact it was bringing back...

Summary: The White House is looking to build a web community to get its questions answered, sort of their own Quora, and they’re trying to do it the right way....

While Linus Torvalds is best known as the creator of Linux, it’s one of his more geeky creations, and the social implications of its design, that may well end...

In improvisational theater and comedy, one of the first rules of participation is allowing co-creation. Basically, instead of saying “No, wait!” you respond to...

I try to keep my social network as open as possible. Here’s the thing — I’m not talking about web applications that mimic real-world behaviors. I mean the rea...

Those who know me know that I’m pretty much inept at any kind of artistic endeavor. Which makes it all the more amusing that I’ve recently had the chance to pr...

I’ll pay $100 to the first person who figures out how to make SubEthaEdit (worst name ever! I still call it Hydra) and OneNote service pack ‘s document-edit...

Hello, visitors from the Mirror . Too bad you’ve stumbled across my site right now, I’m not updating for a little while. But if I were, I would regale you wit...

So, I made vague reference to the idea before, but this time I’m serious: There needs to be a geographically-distributed consortium of web developers, who ca...