After the VC breakfast in Mountain View, I drove up to San Francisco for the final day of Syndicate. Some interesting tidbits from the sessions I attended: Scott Gatz of Yahoo! pointed out that The Washington Post just launched a Votes Database that lets citizens subscribe to an RSS feed of their representative’s votes on […]
AlwaysOn VC breakfast
I caught the last half of the AlwaysOn VC breakfast today, hosted by Tony Perkins, with Silicon Valley legend Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Brad Feld of Mobius Venture Capital and John Jarve of Menlo Ventures. Some notable quotes: Draper: “Don’t come to us telling how you’re going to do Web 2.0. It’s too […]
Meeting Joe Montana
I got to briefly meet San Francisco 49ers legend Joe Montana — the only quarterback to win three Super Bowl MVPs — at a luncheon gathering at the Presidio Golf Course and Club House in San Francisco today. About 40 people gathered for a presentation about personal media put on by Outhink CEO Dave Toole. […]
Personal media: A visual collage
I made a 4-minute collage of photographs and video in a new piece titled Personal media: A visual collage. It’s set to copyrighted music by Alex Woodard (used with permission), with photos taken by me and also drawn from PDPhoto.org, Ourmedia and Flickr. Vlogging superstars Michael Verdi and Steve Garfield make an appearance. Check it […]
Remembering Gene McCarthy
I was too young to be “clean for Gene,” but I always respected Eugene McCarthy, the populist candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968 (and three times thereafter), who died Saturday at age 89. I met McCarthy only once, on the steps of a conference hall at Rutgers University in 1976. By then, McCarthy […]