About 20 people walked into the room, sat down and slid their phones, iPads, and other devices towards the center of the table. It was the last session of the conference and the rules were simple. We would work our way around the table twice. On the first pass, each...

At 5 years old, it's no fun getting interrupted while you're focused on something. As a parent, I compensate for that by employing a series of intricately planned measures to guide my son from whatever he happens to be doing towards whatever it is that I want him to do...

I'm twelve stories up and being chased by two guys with four guns and I'm running out of roof which leaves me with two choices: I duck and cry, or I take a flying leap for the adjacent building's rooftop. Without breaking stride, I jump for it. My hands make...

I'm still not sure what precipitated it, but the other night at San Francisco's Jackson Fillmore restaurant, over a couple large bowls of linguini with butter and cheese, my four-year-old son raised his fork and tried to stab my two-year-old daughter in the head. His mother quickly restrained him while...

Looking back on it now, the first time I truly felt the need for a note-taking app was when I started researching note-taking apps. I was just looking for a simple tool to save ideas about upcoming articles or jot down an occasional to-do list.

Stop. Do not send me...

It seems like a great time to be a bully. When I was a kid, even the most productive bullies could only manage a handful of victims at a time. What used to take a lot of effort can now be handled with a couple thumbs and some wifi. A...

Journalist Nir Rosen managed to do the near-impossible. He published some tweets offensive enough to rise above the din of the Internet's general state of offensiveness and lost his fellowship at NYU.

Rosen's offending tweets were in response to the reports that CBS' Lara Logan had been sexually assualted near...

How could god let this happen?

I am the Jewish child of Holocaust survivors, so that is a question that I have heard asked throughout my life. Everyone from the most revered religious leaders to George Burns playing the title character in Oh God, Book 2, has tackled that enquiry.

ABC. Always Be Closing.

That's the advice that Alec Baldwin's character gives to a roomful of ragged salesmen in the movie Glengarry Glen Ross.

Always Be Closing. The same message could easily apply to almost everyone who shares on the web. We're all trying to close. We want to close...

Megaphones don't cause revolutions. But they sure make your voice a lot louder.

I just don't get the seemingly never-ending debate about the role of social media when it comes to revolutionary protests. Here's the lastest salvo from Wired.

Don't call it a Twitter Revolution just yet. Sure, protesters in...

As a kid at my local county fair, I used to ride a roller coaster that rumbled around a circular track as songs like Foreigner's "Urgent" blasted through a set of giant speakers. Every few times around the track, the guy running the ride would pause the music long enough...

Last month, a Wisconsin man became particularly enraged by a Bristol Palin performance on Dancing with the Stars and shot his television. The dancing stopped. The police showed up. And after a 15-hour standoff, the man was taken into custody.

The event brought back memories of Elvis, who...

The friending, the liking, the status updating: sooner or later we all grow to hate it, but we can't stop. Facebook is made up of those dinner party guests who just won't leave even though it's late and everyone else left two hours ago. After a while, everything anyone does...

The Walkman is dead. Long live the Walkman.

More than thirty years after triggering a music and lifestyle revolution, Sony has officially retired the Walkman in Japan (there is still a lone model for sale in the U.S.). A Sony engineer named Nobutoshi Kihara designed the original model for Sony...

It was the first time in his life Isaac didn't want to go to Vegas.

He is an avid Craps player. He goes to Vegas several times a year. And he was set to spend two days with a large group of his oldest friends. But he was looking for...

The main difference between me and Dr. Frank Ryan is that I'm lucky enough not to live near any cliffs.

Ryan, the plastic surgeon behind many celebrity looks, was reportedly tweeting about his dog just before he drove to his death off a Malibu cliff. A person so familiar with...

Recently, our babysitter was struck by a car just a few steps from our front door. Luckily, none of her injuries were life threatening. Her cell phone, however, was brutalized beyond recognition.

Before heading to the emergency room, I climbed into the back of the ambulance where I asked her...

The five most endangered words of the realtime internet era are:

Let me think about that.

Shirley Sherrod, the former rural development director for the Agriculture Department in Georgia found that out the hard way when she was fired by the Obama administration for her delivery of a...

Brad and I never said a word to each other after that day.

I was eleven and sitting in my child psychiatrist's waiting room. The door opened. And there was my worst nightmare -- a kid from my school walking out of the same office where I was about to...

Happy Birthday to David Galbraith. There, I said it.

This seems as good a place as any to share that thought. I've been thinking about his birthday for about a week, ever since Facebook told me about it. But I couldn't decide what to do.

While I've enjoyed the occasional...