Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.
The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.
I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are there to inspire.
My parents didn't know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well for me.
I do not identify as a person with a disability. I'm a disabled person. And I'll be a monkey's disabled uncle if I'm going to apologise for that.
Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.
In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable.
We all learn how to use the bodies we're born with, or learn to use them in an adjusted state, whether those bodies are considered disabled or not.
When I was seven and watched an episode of 'Beyond 2000' that featured a floating armchair, I thought we'd definitely have one of those by 15, at the latest.
CBS's Ed Murrow may have been over-celebrated as the principled observer for the masses, fair yet unafraid to take on the bullies.
Almost every media organization is doing something with live events now, and that's because they feel they can break through that way.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service.
I've always been very enamored of European newsmagazines - the 'Spiegel' kind of magazine, which has an energetic, high-low approach to news.
If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?
Let's face it: innovation in the U.S. is now the province of our thriving city-states. We all know that nothing happens in Washington anymore.
'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs.
Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.
Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.