In the US, the internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has now surpassed all other media except television as a main source for national and international news.

I'm always interested in new ways to tell stories. It's one of the reason that I got into and have remained in online journalism instead of taking a more traditional path. This project from The Atlantic reminds me of some of the experimentation going on at the dawn of broadband, many projects that were cut short or abandoned after the dot.com collapse. As The Atlantic pursues and develops this project, I hope that they learn in public and allow us all to see what is successful and what isn't and ask why. Please, Think Again about digital journalism.

China, some economists say, lulled U.S. consumers and leaders into complacency about their spendthrift ways.