As one of the very early members of the Online News Association, I’ve attended my share of ONA conferences over the years. This year, I wasn’t able to attend the annual gathering that ended in Washington, DC, over the weekend. Instead, I spent most of last weekend at TechCrunch50, a technology conference in San Francisco […]
An Arab Israeli’s remarkable journey
Here’s a video of chat with a resident of Khawalid, a Bedouin Arab village in northern Israel, and his son Ishmael Khaldi, who is the deputy consul of the Consulate General of Israel.
Blogger dinner for Blonde 2.0
On our Silicon Valley blogger trip to Israel in April I made fast friends with Ayelet Noff, aka Blonde 2.0, who’s one of the top social marketing consultants in Israel. Ayelet put together a blogger dinner for us and helped organize much of our nightlife itinerary. So when Ayelet flew out for the TechCrunch50 conference […]
One take on TechCrunch50
A taste of TechCrunch50 from JD Lasica on Vimeo. One of the coolest folks I met on Day 2 of the TechCrunch50 conference was Meghan Asha, founder of NonSociety and a self-described "geekette." Check out the personality-driven tech-glam recommendation site NonSociety.com and her lifecast there. Meghan gives a nice 4-minute summary of highlights at TechCrunch50, […]
Michael Arrington on TechCrunch50
At lunchtime during day 1 of TechCrunch50 I caught up with Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch and co-founder of the tech conference, now in its second year. (See below for my writeup.) The three-day gathering drew nearly 1,800 people to the San Francisco Design Concourse on its first day Monday. Mike toyed with me about […]