I'm back.

A few months ago, I started getting alarming emails from people. My site, apparently, was infected.

"This Site Will Harm Your Computer," is what it said on Google.

Odd, really, because when I saw that for the first time, I thought it was a metaphor. A euphemism. I thought it was Google saying, essentially, "Don't bother with that guy. Waste of time."

And then I spent some time listening to Jonathan Zittrain -- he's a friend of a friend -- talk about web security and his new book, The Future of the Internet, and How to Stop It, and he was talking about exactly that: web sites getting infiltrated (Hi, Wordpress!) and infected, and then people like me getting dramatic emails from people we don't know.

So I contacted a very smart, cool guy, Geoffrey Gifford, who has a web business of his own, and he helped me clean up everything. Geoffrey helped with the admin stuff, and the design -- he runs a great site of his own, Culture Now, which I recommend highly. I'm really grateful for all of his help on this site...

And not just for cleaning it up, either. Now the site looks much better: cleaner, sharper, more white space.

Oh, and comments. We now have comments.

So, I'm back.

More later.