My favorite new band, Los Cenzontles, plays with guest artist David Hidalgo of Los Lobos this coming Wednesday, Nov. 12, at Yoshi’s Jazz Club, Oakland. Details here. (I’ll be attending the Tech Awards in Silicon Valley that night.) Above is a photo I took of Los Cenzontles playing with David Hidalgo in San Pablo this […]
Change.gov: help change America
During Tuesday evening’s election returns, Prof. Henry Jenkins of the MIT Media Lab and i had a brief exchange during a live chat on pbs.org’s MediaShift site about how the Obama team and its supporters will channel all the energy and passion from the presidential campaign — really, a political movement as much as a campaign — into executing real political reform. Now we see the beginning contours of a first move in this direction: Change.gov. Yesterday the site received so many visitors that the servers couldn’t handle the load.
Day 2 of Web 2.0 Summit: A look at GoodGuide
I’m crashing after Election Night, two days of Web 2.0 Summit with one to go, plus speaking on a panel Saturday in Berkeley at Social Summit 2008. So, today: • Here are a few dozen photos from my Web 2.0 Summit Flickr photo gallery, with many more to come. That’s Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO […]
Web 2.0 Summit Day 1
I’ve been attending the Web 2.0 Summit regularly since it began a few years ago because technology conferences like Web 2.0, TechCrunch 50 and a handful of others are where you’ll get the first glimpse of where the tech revolution is taking media, business, culture and even politics. That was on display Wednesday at the […]
Today’s front pages
For a sampling of front pages around the U.S. and the world, see here and here.