Select Writings

How frozen peas started a movement
Can social media cure cancer?
Washington Post
January 10, 2008
[Additional Post site here] [craigcolgan.com here]

Blogs encourage hometown input
Activists in Loudoun County, Va. set out
to change their communities using the Web
Washington Post
April 13, 2006

My wiki, wiki ways
The Los Angeles Times lets its readers
try the editing process, using the Internet
National Journal
July 2, 2005
Printed version (pdf)

Blogging school leaders engage communities in new ways
Can the Internet's hottest tool work for those who are
not at all used to such intense community engagement?
American School Board Journal
July 2005

A year of drama for editorial cartoonists
They are in the news more than ever. And why do
members of Congress suddenly care so much?
National Journal
Aug. 9, 2003

Creatures from the Web lagoons: The blogs
MSNBC and other news sites say goodbye to random message
boards, and hello to Eric Alterman and Andrew Sullivan 
National Journal
Aug. 2, 2002

Also:

DREAMS LOST:
Hugh McDonald, like a nation, was changed forever
by the death of Robert Kennedy 30 years ago this week
Jackson (Michigan) Citizen Patriot
May 31, 1998

The new look of school safety
American School Board Journal
2005

Is mold the new asbestos?
American School Board Journal
and The IEQ Review
2004