We’ll be working on how to restore trust in everything long after Trump is out of the White House.
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I am strangely relieved that the quirky building where I attended high school has been torn down.
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The rituals behind the scenes in a BBC drama evoke a treasure trove of stories from Ghana to London.
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Five questions for Imagination Gap author Brian Reich, who says our big innovations are mostly pretty trivial.
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Big media can do its thing. But we need something smaller, more personal, more intimate.
Time passes, distance grows, things are no longer what they seem. A prose poem by Ted Anthony.
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It’s time for the news business to show some humility and embrace the culture that it is a part of, not above.
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The legitimate U.S. press now must re-write its rules of engagement or risk failure. And we can’t afford that.
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“We are all co-creating the potential Doomsday Device that can undermine all the liberties our collective ancestry fought for. Don’t run from it. Embrace the full picture. Realize what constant connectivity and persistent data tracking have delivered along with that on-demand burrito service. I keep thinking about how we built this infrastructure heavily during the presidency of a pretty decent man (drone wars not included), and now the keys to the kingdom are about to go to a decidedly less stable figure.”
— Baratunde Thurston
There’s no pretense about the problem it’s solving. It’s just there to be there.
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America feels broken – really broken, not just tweetable broken. So I feel broken too.
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“Our industry thinks its glory days are over. Our industry’s glory days have not even begun. Because we have not even begun to see what this industry could be with the creativity and the talent and skills of women and people of color.” – Cindy Gallup
If you have to understand obscure industrial rules in order to conduct routine activities, the rules are stupid.