You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa.

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

We are trying to do a transfer of technology that allows people to express themselves without taking risks. It is about free speech, that's all.

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.