When you think of someone hustling to build a better life in New York City, do you think of a small business owner getting up in the wee hours of the morning t...

One key point about entrepreneurship (which I covered in my lengthy piece yesterday) is worth amplifying because society is often being lied to about what a...

I keep having a conversation with people around the tech world about how the industry’s current state of change — especially the potential disruption of incumb...

If a company is debating whether a user's account should be suspended, they've already failed to build a modern platform that follows best practices. Why are t...

I almost can’t remember a time when I wasn’t aware of the work the Electronic Frontier Foundation was doing on behalf of all of us who care about the impact...

I’m skeptical about “teach the kids to code!” as a panacea for all of society’s ills. Yet today, I’m at the White House to participate in a summit on Computer...

[This piece was originally written for CNN on the occasion of Twitter’s IPO.] The Internet is buzzing with news of Twitter’s initial public offering on Thu...

I spend so much time writing, and thinking, about technology and tech companies. And so much of it’s critical. I point the finger at how the apps and sites we...

In today’s Wall Street Journal there’s a detailed look at how New York City’s tech industry is looking to influence politics in the city . I’m happy to be quo...

Back in 2009, I founded Expert Labs based on the idea that technology could help all of us better engage with our government and encourage policy makers to l...

When I co-founded Activate last year, one of my goals was that, as much as possible, we’d share what we learned about helping established companies with thei...

In a remarkably fast evolution from what-if rumination on a blog to cutting-edge news dissemination, Alex Kerin’s idea last year of how to use Twitter to sha...

While I’ve always liked doing a lot of my notes and writing with pen and ink, I’ve never been particularly well-versed in the latest innovations and trends in...

Update: Voting is now open . I’d appreciate your support. Update #2: There’s video of my platform speech at this month’s tech meetup, if you want to see a...

Recently, I’ve had the chance to talk to a lot of talented people who are working on new projects or new startups, most of which aren’t really companies yet,...

Last week, Twitter announced its new advertising system , called promoted tweets. I was at Twitter’s Chirp conference as a speaker, so I got an up-close loo...

A few months ago, I started as director of “Expert Labs”: http://expertlabs.org/ , a new independent non-profit effort with the goal of improving government by...

Apple is justifiably revered in the worlds of technology and culture for creating one of the most powerful brands in the world based on the combination of some...

Here’s the idea: We can fix the false impression that the newest gadgets are the only interesting ones by simply promoting the fact that we’re getting a lot ou...

I moved back to New York City at the end of last year because of my wife’s work , and despite my love for my coworkers and the work they do. But the decisio...

Ryan Freitas, whose culinary wisdom I can personally vouch for, just shared some insights into his idea that designers can learn a lot from the discipline of...

A couple Clay Shirky links for you today, one of which I just linked to, one of which I should have linked to last week, and all worth reading. In D...

I don’t know exactly what the significance of this realization is to me, but I thought I’d share. The debate between Robert Scoble and Dave Winer about Micro...

There weren’t a whole lot of really new things announced at the Web 2.0 conference, mostly large companies saying what you’d expect. But one of the launches...

As part of my continuing quest to create as many posts as possible with as little original content as possible, let’s take another look at my revisitation of...

There’s been a lot of interesting writing about the evolution of the newspaper industry lately, especially in the face of the rising popularity of social media...

The impressive thing isn’t that Sky News has a Michael Jackson Trial Channel . The impressive thing is the order of the navigation on the left side of their n...

I was trying to figure out what innovation was going to come out of the syndication bubble that’s gripping the weblog industry, but now I know ! Dick Costolo...

Dan Woods has a poignant lament about the end of life for his application (and labor of love) Watson. The circumstance is unfortunate, but it would be totall...

There is only so much room for innovation or creativity within these design constraints, it seems....

A while back, Gillette released the M3Power Razor , a motorized razor based on their fan-favorite Mach 3. Now, as many of you may recall, I care about ra...

I’ve always been pretty platform-neutral, so Apple’s little announcements are only of marginal interest to me. But the idea of developing a digital communicati...

Apple is committing a grave folly in not taking advantage of their tight OS/hardware integration. People forget just how much one can do with well-integrated h...

Hey, are you a straight Asian female with a weblog? Try this bit of innovation: Refer to your boyfriend as "The Boy" when referencing him on your sit...

I’m only going to repeat this once more: It doesn’t matter if you thought of it first, or if your idea is better. If you didn’t do anything with it, if you did...

Milov always comes up with great ideas ....

I’ve been thinking a lot about the world of technology recently, mostly where we’ve gone wrong. Part of it is sour grapes and bitterness on my part; I used to...

Regarding the new PowerBook : "Reflecting Apple’s typical engineering innovation, Titanium’s keyboard is attached with magnets and pulls off easily,...