I’m attending the Tech Policy Summit in San Jose, a first-time conference about technology issues that is drawing a crowd of heavy hitters — most of the 150 or so people in the audience could well be on stage. Some of the speakers include Deborah Platt Majoras, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, […]
Archives for February 2007
Guggenheim wins for ‘Inconvenient Truth’
Congratulations to Davis Guggenheim, director of An Inconvenient Truth, which won the best documentary Oscar tonight. Davis is not only a cool dude — he’s on the board of Creative Commons — but he’s also the nicest, most down-to-earth guy I’ve ever met from Hollywood. (By contrast, Al Gore, whom I ran into three times […]