What’s your Internet connection speed? Here’s my story. Internet speeds abroad For years, many of us in Silicon Valley and elsewhere (like Dan Gillmor) have bemoaned the state of the broadband Internet in the United States. Here, for example, is a comparison of download speeds in various countries: Japan 61 megabits per secondSouth Korea 45.6 […]
Toward a philanthropic Web
I spent this afternoon at a fascinating gathering in San Francisco: Lunch for Social Action Platforms. Hosted by Peter Deitz of Montreal (see my recent interview with him here) and hosted by TechSoup, 33 people got together on two days’ notice to discuss how to work together to make it easy for people to find […]
Photos of ‘The Conversation’
Here are some photos of The Conversation: The Future of Cinema, Games & Online Video, a two-day conference held Friday and Saturday at the Pacific Film Archive at UC Berkeley. Journalist-author Scott Kirsner organized the program, which was geared toward filmmakers, digital media makers and gamers. Above is a shot of Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, […]
Advancing the social good
Advancing the social good from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 4-minute interview I did with Kevin Jones, founder of a new conference called Social Capital Markets. The three-day gathering in San Francisco, with 650 attendees, focused on social enterprises, the blurring line between nonprofits and socially conscious for-profits, and the tidal wave of interest […]
Pitching your social enterprise
I’m handicapped by not having my MacBook Air, which was stolen yesterday, but here are some notes from Day 2 of the first Social Capital Markets conference at Fort Mason in San Francisco. At the Pitching in Action session, four organizations gave presentations on social enterprises they’re planning to launch. Each had a compelling story. […]