[demlosers]

As a Markle Fellow with the New America Foundation, Mr. Thompson focuses on the Internet’s impact on innovation, from open-source software to cancer research — to democratic reform in Africa.

Mr. Thompson was previously an editor at The Washington Monthly and has also contributed to The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Slate and The Washington Post, among other publications.

He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University where he earned degrees in Earth Systems, Political Scienc, and Economics.
Recent contributions:

G8 Summit: Africa and the Information Age

AuthorBiography

[demlosers]

Mr. Thompson focuses on the Internet’s impact on innovation, from open-source software....

Explains why he put Slashdot on a pedestal.

[Gorzaloon]

He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University where he earned degrees in Earth Systems, Political Scienc, and Economics.

HAHAHAH! And the writer gags at the word "Science", and cannot even spell it, as the writer describes the Doctor of Basketweaving.

Degrees in Earth Systems. And I suppose his poor parents took out a mortgage to pay for that folly? Or did WE guarantee student loans for his hobby?

If there is an upcoming market meltdown, the only good thing about it is that survivors will be people with REAL skills..and I do not care if they are chemists, or plumbers, or auto mechanics...Whomever they are, they will be earning a living with hard facts, and not the political ravings of tenured radicals.

And the Doctor of Basket Weaving may finally learn some real skills in order to indulge his politics. Those skills may include the first-time -ever use of a broom or shovel.

[razorback-bert]

he earned degrees in Earth Systems

I see high paying jobs for Earth System grads all the time, so why is he doing this?