Hitchens on Cooper on Falwell. It’s a pleasure to see a savagely brilliant and uncompromising mind turn its attention to the problem of religion in public life.

How else to describe it? Time’s extract from the new Al Gore book, The Assault on Reason, is a manifesto for social and political change from the barrel of the internet. Gist: So the remedy for what ails our democracy is not simply better education (as important as that is) or civic education (as important […]

My friends (and clients) at HIP Communications have a great piece of coverage in the Globe today on the rollout of their hosted IP telephony solution. HIP VP Ben Lucier, whom I’ve gotten to know both through HIP and his support of mesh, is a veritable poster-boy for getting yourself together when it comes to […]

FYI, I’ll be on Goldhawk Live tomorrow talking about the recent Facebook and other social media workplace bans. Update: With many thanks to a friend who shall remain unnamed, the show is on Blip.TV.

Clive Thompson has an excellent piece in the NYT on the changes the Internet is making to the way music is made and distributed. Most interesting of all to me is the effect that deep involvement in social media is having on the relationships musicians have with their fans, and with their creativity. Update: Can […]