A Networked Approach to the World
"Social Networks as Foreign Policy" was included in the New York Times Magazine's Year in Ideas issue for 2009, and for those of you whose ears I've bent about the topic, it's a nice encapsulation of an intriguing development. Also, there's a mention of that State Department trip to Mexico City I got a chance to go on, the one dedicated to exploring ways that Mexicans might possibly be better equipped to combat the terrible narco violence there.


