This follows up on the post below about using networked intelligence to solve complex problems. Our Chief Academic Officer, Vikas Sukhatme, told me about two websites based on this concept. One is called Innocentive and the other is called Topcoder,...

Back on October 29, I told you the story of the uninformative signage on the MBTA's Green Line and also mentioned the stern warnings about fare evasion presented to the public on those signs. Well, now I have my new Flip videocam and have documented...

As a child of the '60s, I grew up with heroes like Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. Then in college, we all learned about and were inspired by their precursors, ranging from Thoreau to Gandhi. We studied, too, recent practitioners of the art...

When ceramic artist Katya Apekina arrived in the US from Russia, she was virtually unknown here. We purchased one of her works, this pretty Chanukah menorah, in 1992. At the time, most of her pieces were quite small. One of her friends, Francis...

I just attended a book party for Andrew McAfee, who has written a great book called Enterprise 2.0 (Harvard Business Press). Here's my blurb for the book: "Andrew McAfee coined the term Enterprise 2.0 to describe a phenomenon that has changed the way...