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Arianna Huffington on politics and fear
Icaptured a few nice photos of Arianna Huffington, founder and editor of the Huffington Post, last night at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, where she gave an hourlong talk in conversation with Raj Patel, answered audience questions and then signed copies of her new book, Third World America.
The Huffington Post has had a remarkable trajectory over the past five years.
Web 2.0 Summit: Photos & more highlights
Here’s my final report from the seventh annual Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco — among the nation’s premier tech conferences. Despite not having top-tier glass, I managed to capture some impressive images of some of Silicon Valley’s tech leaders: Here’s a Flickr set of 71 images. A few snippets from Wednesday’s session (I was […]
Web 2.0 Summit: Privacy, innovation, games & ebooks
Google CEO Eric Schmidt Now in its seventh year, Web 2.0 Summit — running Monday to Wednesday in San Francisco this week — remains an exceptional experience for members of the tech community. Over the years, Web 2.0 Summit has consistently pulled in the biggest names in the tech industry, and this year is no […]
Opening up tech opportunities for women
For years I’ve admired the efforts of Rachel Sklar to highlight the underrepresentation of women at the upper echelons of the tech and media worlds. Rachel, editor at large at Mediaite and someone who carries both intellectual heft and personal likability, started a Tumblr blog a few months ago called Change the Ratio. It’s an […]