Summer is conference season - a critical time for building brands, making connections, and shaping industries.

That's really why I want to go to space - I want to be weightless for so long that it gets boring.

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

I have known Evo Morales for many years, since the days of the union movement. From a historical and sociological standpoint, the election of Evo Morales is extraordinary, with great prospects and potential for the Bolivian people.

If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the people's desperate need for change.