There’s probably a good reason that anything popular runs into a backlash, and it’s probably related to evolution. Whether it’s liking a popular band or enjoying yoga, it might be good for our survival that we never all want to be in the same boat, no matter how great a […]
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Can we graft our humanity and our souls onto the web—using the Internet to craft a life story which grows in richness over time? In the 19th century, the Romantic poet Wordsworth famously stated: “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion […]
When we started telling people about our “nutrition label for the news” project, one question came up fairly frequently: “Do nutrition labels even work?” Of course, when people ask if labels work, they implicitly mean, “Have nutritional labels prevented America from growing more obese each year?” In this case, the […]
Recently when I pasted a BBC article link into Facebook, the title and summary in Facebook presented the opposing view to that taken by the article. Here’s the story. Right now, people in the UK are arguing about whether immigration contributes to joblessness. MigrationWatch, an anti-immigration group, has released a […]
I was supposed to speak on a panel about SOPA this evening with the Northeast chapters of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. It was to serve as an educational discussion for local members, but at the national level, both unions have already […]