Okay, I caved. I'm twittering. Something about this trip to Europe made me finally sign up. We'll see how it turns out, but thus far it is pretty fun, though keeping to the 140 characters is pretty difficult for those of us who like to write 73 word sentences. I've got the last three posts running under the picture to the right, and you can follow me at Twitter.com/stevenbjohnson.
The Basics
- I'm a father of three boys, husband of one wife, and author of five books. In early 2007 I went and foolishly got myself a day job running the hyperlocal community site, outside.in that I co-founded the year before. We spend most of the year in Park Slope, Brooklyn, though I'm on the road a lot giving talks. (You can see the full story here.) Personal correspondence should go to sbj6668 at earthlink dot net. Media requests should go to Matthew.Venzon at us.penguingroup dot com. If you're interested in having me speak at an event, drop a line to Wesley Neff at the Leigh Bureau (WesN at Leighbureau dot com.)
Live SBJ
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Recent Essays
- The War On Error
Discover column on the web's bottom-up response to Katrina. - Air Purifiers For Data Smog
Discover column on software that helps you focus. - Why The Web Is Like A Rain Forest.
Discover column on Web 2.0. - Finding "Lost"
London Times piece on the mysterious hit show "Lost." - The Urban Long Tail
Discover column on the diversity of cities.
My Books
The Ghost Map
The latest: the story of a terrifying outbreak of cholera in 1854 London 1854 that ended up changing the world. An idea book wrapped around a page-turner. I like to think of it as a sequel to Emergence if Emergence had been a disease thriller. You can see a trailer for the book here.Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
The title says it all. This one sparked a slightly insane international conversation about the state of pop culture -- and particularly games. There were more than a few dissenters, but the response was more positive than I had expected. And it got me on The Daily Show, which made it all worthwhile.Mind Wide Open : Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
My first best-seller, and the only book I've written in which I appear as a recurring character, subjecting myself to a battery of humiliating brain scans. The last chapter on Freud and the neuroscientific model of the mind is one of my personal favorites.Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
The story of bottom-up intelligence, from slime mold to Slashdot. Probably the most critically well-received all my books, and the one that has influenced the most eclectic mix of fields: political campaigns, web business models, urban planning, the war on terror.Interface Culture : How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate
My first. The book I wrote instead of finishing my dissertation. Still in print almost a decade later, and still relevant, I think. But I haven't read it in a while, so who knows what's in there!
" Wow, already have 44 followers. How come every single one of them is a dude?"
and
"# Following 0
# Followers 51"
Well, that was a quick shift from being intrigued to disinterested.
http://twitter.com/steveportigal
Posted by: Steve Portigal | October 30, 2007 at 07:19 AM
I'm following you and am a dude. I wish you were on Pownce (http://pownce.com/), instead. The interface is much cleaner and Twitter's apps don't work that great with Vista. Sigh.
By the way, I tell all my friends to drink water if they contract cholera.
tbf
Posted by: Todd Finley | October 31, 2007 at 07:43 PM
Hello Steven,
I'm a producer of BBC's Radio City. We would like to contact you for a press request. Would you please contact me at: jvique@radiocity.com.ec
or
johanna_vique@hotmail.com
Regards,
Johanna Vique
Posted by: johanna vique | November 01, 2007 at 10:39 AM
Steven, the average number of words per sentence is arrived at by counting the words in a paragraph and dividing it by the number of sentences in the paragraph. This is very basic knowledge that every mediocre English teacher knows. It is used to determine the grade level of a text. Twelve words equal twelfth grade material.
In the case of Jameson, it works to determine complexity; in acadorks, however, it demonstrates self-conscious hyperbole.
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