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Oct 14, 2014

I used to be highly skeptical that one could be reading more than one book at a time. But in the last couple of years what I have found works best for me is to have 3-4 non fiction books [...]

Oct 9, 2014

Sep 24, 2014

Last week I was in Detroit to speak at Techonomy’s one day conference there. I had never been to the city before and enjoyed meeting Mike Duggan, the mayor, Beth Niblock, CIO, and many other people working hard to turn [...]

Sep 22, 2014

I am thrilled that the Climate March in New York City yesterday had such a huge turnout. It felt like the beginning of an important movement to finally take more decisive action. The organizers estimate that more than 300,000 people [...]

Sep 18, 2014

I have written a fair bit about climate change here at Continuations over the last few years. It is one of those slowly creeping threats that democracy is woefully slow and bad at addressing. So I am excited to see [...]

Sep 10, 2014

I love it when diverse communities and companies on the internet come together to support a cause. Today it is the fight for net neutrality that I wrote about on Monday. Here is what I saw when I just logged [...]

Sep 9, 2014

Recent political research has provided evidence that state level corruption increases the further the capital is from the state’s dominant city. Living in New York and having seen the corrupt mess that is Albany this comes as no surprise. As [...]

Sep 8, 2014

This Wednesday, September 10th, is a day of action to alert everyone about the danger of fast and slow lanes for last mile internet access. I have written a lot about this topic here on Continuations. For the perspective of [...]

Sep 1, 2014

Today is Labor Day which is meant to celebrate the workers movement (as an aside, in Germany and much of the rest of the world this is held on May 1). That might be a good time to think about [...]