Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.

I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?

You might not be able to stomach it, but as long as you can mind it, your heart will be all right.

Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat.

Virtual currencies, used to buy digital goods inside online games, have become an integral part of the Internet landscape.

In addition to all the good things it's done, the Internet has empowered an awful lot of people who would have been best off disempowered, including quite a few bloggers on both sides.

I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.