The dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei uses new media (Twitter, cellphone photography) to diffuse his messages virally.
Their latest guests are gently bickering couple Sara Pascoe and John Robins, plus bomb-disposal expert Steve, who, they learn, has never had the urge to diffuse his alarm clock.
When last seen, he has taken a Chinese bride, a factory owner's daughter, and cranked out a series of bad paintings of Shanghai: "Obviously Bao, cashing in on his success, had diffused his energy and lost his creative center.
Mr. Sharpton said moving the trial 140 miles north to the capital was a "scheme" to diffuse his effectiveness, but he promised headline-grabbing protests at the courthouse there, beginning with a human prayer-chain for justice.
While his remarks were criticized as self-serving, the speech quickly diffused his Wright association problems, and Obama was bolstered by handling his most difficult issue with sober aplomb.
His work became well known because of the large number of students (sometimes in excess of 300) who registered for his annual course of lectures and diffused his concepts throughout Great Britain, Europe, and the United States.
He was correct, of course, but more important than the message was the medium: he held in his hands Lincoln's revolutionary tool for making sure that neither distance nor intermediaries diffused his leadership.
It is unquestionable that Washington's strength of character, his ability to hold the confidence of army and people and to diffuse his own courage among them, his unremitting activity, and his strong common sense constituted the chief factors in achieving American victory.
