In heaven—so goes an old joke told at international business meetings—the policemen are British, the cooks are French, the lovers are Italian, the technology is German, and it’s organized by…
Social media is just the latest in a long series of disruptions that Jacksonville, Florida’s largest city, has taken in stride. The site of one of the earliest European settlements…
Texas is bigger than most of the globe’s nations, with a scale that makes the 30-odd miles between Dallas and Fort Worth seem almost meaningless. The two cities actually form…
An episode of the hit sitcom Frasier has the Daphne Moon character musing, “Oh, I love nature’s little aberrations: warm days in winter, four-leaf clovers, Australians….” They always seem to…
The island paradise of Hawaii rounded out the stars on the U.S. flag at 50 in 1960, and it remains the union’s most unique member. Hawaii is the most ethnically…
Thoughts of New Zealand generally conjure up spectacular landscapes complete with smoking volcanoes, abrupt mountains, relentless glaciers, stunning fiords, and odd flightless birds. This primordial backdrop made the perfect natural…
One complaint often heard about Los Angeles—the nation’s largest city, geographically, with 469 square miles just within the city limits—is that “there’s no there there.” This conundrum has plagued city…
Swedish social media visionaries like Anders Abrahamsson found themselves dancing alone for the first few years as their more practical compatriots waited for the field to mature a bit. However,…
The Canadian city of Victoria, like many western outposts, has its roots in the gold rushes of the 19th century. Today this Pacific gem and capital of British Columbia is…
By the spring of 2010, social media enthusiast and Baltimore resident Amy Phillips was tired of driving all the way to Washington, D.C. when she wanted to attend a Social…