Growing up in a small town in upstate New York, some of the first real friendships I had were in chat rooms.

One joke coming from one person can land completely flat, while somebody else delivering it in a unique way can really elevate it.

Any kind of gender expression is performance for me, regardless of where it is on the spectrum.

The bigger your platform gets - it kind of feels like being Godzilla sometimes. You make a slight move and you can accidentally knock over a building. It's a tough thing to navigate.

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Simple genome engineering of bacteria and yeast is just the beginning of the rise of the true biohackers. This is a community of several thousand people, with skill sets ranging from self-taught software hackers to biology postdocs who are impatient with the structure of traditional institutional lab work.