Nicholas Thompson

I once ran in a pack in the Boston Marathon with a guy wearing the MSU singlet. There must have been 200 hundred strangers who yelled "go green." To each one, he hollered back "go white." Here's an amazing @TimAlberta piece on the tragedy.

This is truly amazing. And a good lesson for journalists: sometimes people who you don’t think will talk to you—or who have been told by lawyers not to talk to anyone—will still talk to you.

A fabulous thread and discussion about the strange Wire / Facebook dustup in India. Read the thread, the replies, the updates. This is the kind of thing this website is very good for.