When I speak, I like to be infor­ma­tive and enter­tain­ing. I use Apple Keynote (what Al Gore uses in “An Incon­ve­nient Truth”), rather than Pow­er­point. So often I need a pro­jec­tor (I have all the adapters for the laptop).

Mostly, I have spo­ken about my work on The For­tune Cookie Chron­i­cles. (I have spo­ken on this topic well over 100 times, includ­ing at the Library of Con­gress, Google, Har­vard Uni­ver­sity, and the 92nd Street Y.) An 18-minute exam­ple can be seen on TED.com. I have a spe­cific ver­sion on Jews and Chi­nese food that has been pop­u­lar in syn­a­gogues and Jew­ish Com­mu­nity Centers.

Some­times I talk about blog­ging, based on my expe­ri­ence at City Room. I also have a pre­sen­ta­tion about how jour­nal­ists can use Twitter.

I often talk to stu­dents about jour­nal­ism as favors for friends. I will likely soon have a pol­ished pre­sen­ta­tion on the evo­lu­tion of jour­nal­ism and busi­ness mod­els, when I start seeing.

I wish I could say yes to all the invi­ta­tions that come my way. It all depends on jug­gling my sched­ule (and also whether I have friends in the area that I want to visit). I like meet­ing inter­est­ing peo­ple. I have a soft spot for stu­dents and par­tic­u­larly for Chi­nese schools.