Creativity is an import-export business.

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.

There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.