Three of my good friends are among the five Silicon Valley “hotties” in ValleyWag’s Web 2.Ooh contest: from top, Julia French, Valerie Cunningham and Micki Krimmel. I’ve got better photos of all three than ValleyWag does. So I’ll post them here. Plus, here’s a bonus photo of Julia from last year and Micki from this […]
The future of music and media
I spent an hour in San Francisco this afternoon on a panel at Bandwidth, a conference about the intersection of music and technology, a subject I wrote about in Darknet. Fellow panelists included Maryrose Dunton, Director of Product Management, YouTube; David Todd, VP of Content, eyespot and Sudhin Shahani, CEO, Musicane; moderator was Kevin Crouse, […]
Valenti gives Ourmedia a big thumbs-up
The other day I spotted Jack Valenti, who headed the MPAA for nearly 39 years before stepping down last year, at a lunch table at the Aspen Institute. So I introduced myself and we had a nice chat for a half hour. I devote half of Chapter 2 in Darknet to Valenti and the MPAA. […]
Jersey shore pix
Just back from a week at the Jersey shore — at a house rental with a dock overlooking Barnegat Bay in Lavallette, NJ. Here’s a Flickr photo set.
Bloggers uncover manipulated news photos
NY Times: Bloggers Drive Inquiry on How Altered Images Saw Print. [Adnan] Hajj, a Lebanese photographer based in the Middle East, may not be familiar to many newspaper readers. But thanks to the swift justice of the Internet, he has been charged, tried and convicted of improperly altering photographs he took for Reuters. The pictures […]