This week's cover of TIME features a story that I wrote about Twitter and innovation. Actually, that's not quite right: this week's cover features a tweet that I posted about the cover story I wrote for TIME about Twitter. I've been chuckling about this cover ever since the folks at TIME proposed it. MORE >>

  The editors at Yale University Press were nice enough to invite me to edit this year's edition of Best Technology Writing. It's a great collection of essays, by some of my very favorite writers, and I encourage you to pick up a copy. Brand’s opening line was “Computers are coming to the people.” That was prescient enough. Now go buy a copy!). MORE >>

I have been dreaming about new tools that would help me capture what I was reading for almost as long I have been reading. Oh, the irony.) I wrote a little lovesong to Devonthink for the New York Times Book Review in 2004.) We got to talking over lunch about our shared obsession with research and annotation tools. It’s a social commonplace book. MORE >>

If there's one thing I'm known for as a writer, it's my habit of writing across disciplines, connecting multiple fields in a single book or narrative. But the truth is I haven't written a truly multi-disciplinary book for nearly ten years, since my second book, Emergence. But Where Good Ideas Come From has no equivalent anchor or home field. MORE >>

At some point this winter, mostly likely as I was climbing over the three feet of snow that stayed piled on our sidewalk from late December to February, it occurred to me that I had spent twenty-one years in New York City--exactly half my life. Then I moved into a loft in the West Village with the woman who would become my wife. started outside.in MORE >>