Greetings and salutations

Hi. My name's Dan Tynan, and I'm a geek. ("Hi Dan.")

More accurately, I write about geeks. As a tech journalist for PC World, Infoworld, and virtually every other publication with "world" in the title, as well as Wired News and Popular Science, I've gotten a front row seat for the greatest show on earth: watching technology change our lives.

There is now virtually no part of our lives untouched by tech. Computers, cell phones, and the Internet have changed how and where we work, what we talk and think about, how we choose to spend our leisure time, and how we stay in touch.

The Net has disrupted virtually every medium in virtually every way, from creation to distribution to consumption. (Including journalism -- witness the blog revolution.) The Web drives political discourse at least as much as 24/7 cable news or talk radio. From government wiretaps to "lost" White House emails to Net Neutrality, every week brings some new political story where technology plays a major role. And despite a Congress and an Executive that appear at times willfully ignorant of the digital revolution, there's not a law on the books that can afford to ignore it.

In short, you can't separate technology from the rest of our lives anymore. So, in this blog, I'm not going to.

This blog will sit at the crossroads where technology, culture, and politics meet, occasionally at high speeds. I'll also write about the occasional cool product or interesting site I run across, and the weird stuff that finds its way to my inbox. I hope to have something original to say (by "original" I usually mean "sarcastic"). And I hope to spark geniune discussion among all the folks out there who are smarter than I am about virtually everything.

Think of this blog like a particle accelerator. I'll toss some ideas into the mix, add some from my faithful readers, whip them around at high speeds, and see what happens. Hopefully something unique and interesting will fly out. That, or it will form a black hole that swallows the earth and ends life as we know it. I put the odds at 50/50. What do you think?

Got a bone to pick? Issues to discuss? Post your thoughts below or email me at my other blog, dan (at) dantynan (dot) com.