Interviews & Commentary

Interviews & Commentary features conversations, perspectives, and opinion pieces related to blogging and digital publishing. It highlights the voices behind the work, including bloggers, writers, editors, and industry participants.

The goal is thoughtful commentary that reflects the community and the evolving realities of publishing on the web.

A study has collected forty million responses for a question that may have no right answer: should a self-driving car sacrifice the few to save the many?

Thought of the day from Ray Bradbury: “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture — just get people to stop reading them”

Research published in Psychological Science suggests we consistently underestimate how much strangers enjoy talking to us — and the gap is larger than most people expect

Behavioral science suggests people are held back from reaching out by a fear of intruding — but recipients, in study after study, report feeling something much closer to gratitude

A Pew survey of 6,000 Americans found that most people still call their mother first when life gets hard