As a topic for crowdsourcing, there could hardly be a better subject than New York's subways.
There could be a better exhibition on the topic, I'm sure, going by paintings not in the show but reproduced in galleys of the catalog, due out in May.
Mr. Izzard is generous to a fault, and a shorter show might be a better one, but he moves from topic to topic so quickly and with such general originality and freshness that it is easy to forgive him and to wait with happy anticipation for his next visit.
Wouldn't a better topic for an editorial be how Cuba is a de facto prison for all of its citizens, not just talented baseball players?
Its staggered launch this year has been part of that — allowing it to test how its "non-session-based, context-specific fluid experience" flies, and evidently decide that a new bubbles-based user interface was a better idea than a topic ticker.
As long as educators believe that broad familiarity with many topics is a better preparation for these tests and for the next phase of schooling than in-depth exploration of fewer topics, and lack clear guidance about what is most important, they will hesitate to focus in depth on fewer topics.
Contextual ads related to keywords in specific Tweets or shown only to people who are known to be interested in related topics is a better approach.
Music, sports, movies, books, even the weather, are all better topics for a shy guy than to try and prod him into talking about himself.
Those would be better topics for debate, but would involve challenging the overwhelming (and understandable) desire of Americans to avoid fresh entanglements.
Better instruction is a topic for junior researchers on all levels.
