The Social Age

I was recently asked to write a piece for the upcoming WeMedia conference in Miami on how media can help us move beyond click-and-go advocacy to real and meaningful change. For me, the Internet has provided me with a platform to share my ideas with the world. Here’s the piece I submitted — you […]

I was walking through downtown Boston the other day and got annoyed as heck. There’s a lot of traffic in Boston — and we all know about the Boston drivers — but I realized, with great annoyance, that the reason the traffic was so bad is because of the pedestrians.
It seems that every pedestrian in […]

I often hear from people about how they’d really like to make a difference in the world, but they aren’t sure how. Kiva, a non-profit based in San Francisco, offers a very cool solution to help you help others. “Kiva.org allows individuals to make $25 loans to low-income entrepreneurs in the developing world (microfinance). […]

I’ve been sick lately. Not deathly ill, but feeling pretty rotten. Last night I was hungry, and having been too under-the-weather to go to the grocery store, I had nary a thing in the fridge. So I did what many Americans would do — I picked up the phone and ordered in.
Forty-five minutes later a […]

Every movement in society suffers from the ails of its great intentions, and The Social Age is no different. I occasionally run into stories that are so anti-social age, they make my skin crawl. This is one of them.
I was recently helping my friend Tanya look for an apartment here in Boston. Together we […]