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Archive for June, 2008

The university commencement address is a special genre. At its best, it offers a window into a great mind that may not often be open to the masses, bestowing elusive keys to the success of an accomplished individual, highlighting both the uniqueness and the universality of that person’s story. The Fringe Benefits of Failure, [...]

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The Unsung Hero of Web 2.0

Threaded discussions are where it all began. Back in the early days of the Internet (when it still had a capital “I”), Usenet newsgroups sparked great excitement about talking to other people (often previously unknown) in writing without constraints of time or place. Thanks to technical advances that have made web-based authorship as [...]

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