Today I was robbed for the first time in my life. I was waiting on a street corner in San Francisco at noon, sitting at the base of a statue, and pulled out my Macbook Air. I had just gotten online when a motorcyclist roared from behind the statue, passed close by, ripped the computer […]
Tips on attracting funding for a social enterprise
Today I attended the first Social Capital Markets conference at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The overflowng crowd of 600 attendees filled the four conference rooms on hand. So far, this is one of the best-run first-time conferences I’ve ever attended. I’m here mostly to get the lay of the land. Ourmedia.org wants to support […]
Emily competes in the Triathlon at Pacific Grove
Emily’s first triathlon from JD Lasica on Vimeo. With the Ironman triathlon being held today in Hawaii, I thought it would be appropriate to showcase an interview I did with Emily Goligoski, a friend who just ran her first triathlon last month, the Triathlon at Pacific Grove — Olympic Distance along the Monterey Peninsula. In […]
Streaming Media West videos
About 25 videos of the recent Streaming Media West conference sessions and keynotes are now online. Above is the embedded video of our 45-minute panel on The Power of Personal Media with Chris Brogan, me, Scott Kabat of Pure Digital, Schlomo Rabinowitz and Irina Slutsky.
Drupal: Open-source publishing
Drupal: open-source publishing from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I hung out Monday night with Dries Buytaert, founder and creator of Drupal, the open source content management system that is now powering tens of thousands of websites, including Ourmedia, The Onion, Sony Music artists (see myplay.com) and many others. Also spent time with Jay Batson, co-founder […]