It’s been a crazy weekend. One of the highlights came Friday night when I was invited to Michael (TechCrunch) Arrington’s place for one of his vaunted tech gatherings. This one was a book release party for Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, authors of “Naked Conversations,” about how businesses can better understand the blog world. A […]
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Archiving television — and books
At Friday’s Getting Ready for Prime Time: Online Video and the Future of Television conference in Berkeley, I grabbed Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle for this 7-minute video about the obstacles and opportunities in archiving our television heritage. Brewster’s great to listen to, as always. (Saw him Friday in Berkeley, Saturday at the Ourmedia gathering, […]
Review of Ray Kurzweil’s ‘The Singularity is Near’
It’s a good thing summer is over, because Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is anything but a beach book. One of the most important thinkers of our time, Kurzweil has followed up his earlier works — most notably The Age of Spiritual Machines — with a work of startling breadth […]
Eleanor’s first stint as a citizen journalist
I’ve been doing a bit of citizen journalism lately (Dan Gillmor’s trying to shake out the Drupal bugs at Bayosphere; so far, my video there hasn’t shown up). Today, the tables are turned. Citizen journalist Eleanor Kruszewski, an incredibly smart technologist who just began a new job at Yahoo!, interviewed me at the Palace Hotel […]
‘Darknet’ Blogger Book Tour
On May 27 I mentioned here that I’ll be putting together a Blogger Book Tour for Darknet, to take the place of the usual practice of flying into towns to sign books for a half-dozen people (not that that isn’t loads of fun … and I’ll be doing a handful of real-world bookstore appearances as […]