As part of what has now become my official “social capital” phase, I just started reading Ethan Watters’ Urban Tribes. So I’m two pages into the first chapter when, on reading the following, I let out a loud laugh that startles the cat and pierces the otherwise peaceful, late-night quiet of my dining room:
Karas was [...]

The folks at Slashdot ran an article from MIT’s Technology Review reporting how pop-culture online communities are providing students with creative writing opportunities not available in the traditional classroom. As a result of their participation, community members develop critical writing skills and literary techniques that are both quantitatively and qualitatively better than their school-based peers:
Why [...]

Ross Mayfield says “email is dead.” Joi Ito says it “is officially broken.” And David Geletner characterizes it as endangered. Yet, email is still the killer app. Challenged to create the next new, new thing that connects people and enables them to collaborate over the Internet, how would you proceed?
Would you be Ray Ozzie, eschewing [...]