A woman whose husband was killed in Wednesday’s bridge collapse (Minneapolis Star Tribune) Here’s some coverage of the tragic bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Mainstream media certainly did a better job than citizen media on this one, though the first-person accounts were harrowing. Disappointing, though, that I didn’t see a single traditional news organization offer video […]
Meeting Sen. John McCain
I secured a front row center seat for Wednesday’s appearance by Sen. John McCain at the AlwaysOn Innovation Summit. (The conference continues today with a live webcast.) I recorded his talk but only had time to post this 3 1/2 minute response to a question from the audience about Saudi Arabia and Pakistan’s role in […]
At AlwaysOn Innovation Summit 2007
I’m at the AlwaysOn Innovation Summit at Stanford University. Spoke here the past two years, but this year I’m spending just the day here in the Bloggers Bullpen. No camera, though I brought a video camera for videotaping Sen. John McCain, who’ll appear at 4:30 pm PT today. The usual gang is here: Dan Farber, […]
Social media widgets and Facebook
Wikipedians are in another spat, over the usefulness of the term "social media." Here was Wikipedia’s entry before it was emasculated to its current entry: Social media describes the online tools and platforms that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other. Social media can take many different forms, including text, […]
A talk with the host of a new games site
At the Pixelodeon conference at the American Film Institute last month, I had a great time chatting with Abra Chouinard, host of a cool new games show called TotalMMO. She was so enthusiastic about online games that I was tempted to lay aside my camcorder and pick up a joystick. OK, my mouse. You get […]