The Author as Marketer

I've been doing a little research into the book publishing industry lately - an industry which like many content industries has been going through dramatic changes over the last decade…

Accent Reduction Classes

As a U.S. inhabitant with an accent, I was intrigued to see a workshop being offered in the Continuing Studies Curriculum at Stanford on Accent Reduction for Non-Native Speakers of…

Robots, Networks, and Us

I finally finished reading Sherry Turkle's most recent book, Alone Together, which continues her examination of human relationships with machines and various forms of artificial intelligence.  It is an extremely…