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Interviews

A collection of 16 issues

Quitting at 40

Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing Walter Guillioli. Walter is one of those few brave people who has had the courage to take the reins of his life. Walter carefully and smartly worked to save enough to live off the savings and then quit a well-paying job at 40

Interview: Saira Wasim

Saira Wasim is a US-based contemporary artist from Pakistan. Saira has carved a niche for herself with her innovative, meticulously crafted Persian miniatures, which she employs to make political and social commentary. Saira’s work has been widely feted. It has been exhibited at numerous prominent art institutions including the

Interview with Eric Berlin

This is the third article in a multi-part series devoted to understanding some of the ethical aspects that dog blogging sites. The series will end with an analysis of Blogcritics.org and blogs in general. Prior two articles – * Interview with Christopher Rose, Comments Editor of BC * Interview with Lisa McKay,

Interview: Bina Shah (Part 2)

Bina Shah is a noted Karachi based author, and journalist. (Part 1.) In the response to the question about the choice of male protagonists in your novels, you noted, “This is going to change in my next novel, in which the protagonist is a young girl. But she comes from

Interview: Bina Shah (Part 1)

Bina Shah, a Wellesley and Harvard alumna, is a noted Karachi based author, journalist, editor, and blogger. She has published two novels and two collections of short stories. Her first collection of short stories, Animal Medicine, was published by Oxford University Press in 1999. The collection was followed by a

Interview: Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa is the author of Cracking India and The Crow Eaters. She currently lives in Houston, Texas. What does your name Bapsi mean? Who gave you the name? My grandmother doted on the British. She gave me what she thought was an English name. Ironically, an English woman asked

Conversation With Bill Thompson: Fragmented Information

This is the fourth and concluding part of the interview with BBC technology columnist, Mr. Bill Thompson. part 1, part 2, part 3 This kind of completes two of the major questions that I had. I would now move on to digital literacy and fragmented informational landscape. Google has made

Conversation With Bill Thompson: Copyright Law

This is part III of a four-part interview with Mr. Bill Thompson, noted technology columnist with the BBC. part 1, part 2 "Copyright is not a Lockean natural right but is a limited right granted to authors in order to further the public interest. This principle is explicitly expressed

Conversation With Bill Thompson: The Political Economy of the Internet

This is part 2 of the interview with Bill Thompson, technology columnist with the BBC. part 1 When I look at the Internet, there is this wonderful sense of volunteerism. It is incredible to see the kind of things that have come out of recent technology like the open source

Conversation With Bill Thompson: The Future

While technology has become an important part of our social, economic and political life, most analysis about technology remains woefully inadequate, limited to singing paeans about Apple and Google, and occasional rote articles about security and privacy issues. It is to this news market full of haberdasher opining that Mr.