During the Traveling Geeks’ trip to the United Kingdom last month, I spent some time polling the Geeks about the productivity and must-have tools that they use during the course of a typical workday. I did the same thing during the first Geeks trip to Israel last year and came away with a wealth of […]
A chat with the co-founder of FriendFeed
A chat with the co-founder of FriendFeed from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Today came word that Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, is buying the microblogging service FriendFeed. This is interesting on a couple of levels. First, it provides further proof that Twitter — the microblogging platform that has taken the world by storm […]
7 questions for the author of ‘Say Everything’
Scott Rosenberg sketches his vision of blogosphere’s impact on our culture Scott Rosenberg, co-founder and longtime managing editor of Salon — and a longtime friend — has a new book out, following Dreaming in Code, called Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters (Crown Publishing Group). It’s a well-written, well-researched, […]
Final reflections on the Traveling Geeks trip
It has been one month since the Traveling Geeks kicked off our trip to London and Cambridge with a Tweetup at JuJu in Chelsea. (I was the chief organizer of trip.) From this distance and vantage point, here are a few random impressions: • I think too much can be made of the differences between […]
Is the Internet making us more ethical?
Ethics of cultural collaboration from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Rita J. King, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council and CEO of Dancing Ink Productions, talks about the ethics of cultural collaboration in this 10-minute video interview immediately after her appearance at the 140 Character Conference on Twitter in New York on June 17. Our […]