I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.
I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.
Profit per se is not my motive.
Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.
The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.
Buzz is not what I am looking for.
Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.
You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.
I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.
I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.
My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.
When I was 17, I went to India for six weeks and had what, at the time, was a very challenging trip. You walk down the street and you see lepers and beggars, and there were several of us, a group of Americans. I remember we were just trying to park one night somewhere and people were just sleeping in the parking lot.
What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.
People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.
Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.
