I’m here at the Participatory Academy at Vaxjo University in southern Sweden — barely. Here’s what happened. After an 11-hour flight from San Francisco to Frankfurt, Germany, I asked a fellow passenger for the local time. He gave it to me, and I set my watch eight hours ahead, from 12:45 am to 8:45 am. […]
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A nice surprise
My mother called two months ago with some odd news. She spotted my name in small print in a local newspaper in New Jersey. Something about unclaimed property when I was living in Garfield, NJ. Since I moved out when I was 2, we figured it was a savings bond my parents bought me, deposited, […]
The future of music and media
I spent an hour in San Francisco this afternoon on a panel at Bandwidth, a conference about the intersection of music and technology, a subject I wrote about in Darknet. Fellow panelists included Maryrose Dunton, Director of Product Management, YouTube; David Todd, VP of Content, eyespot and Sudhin Shahani, CEO, Musicane; moderator was Kevin Crouse, […]
Jersey shore pix
Just back from a week at the Jersey shore — at a house rental with a dock overlooking Barnegat Bay in Lavallette, NJ. Here’s a Flickr photo set.
Photos and video from BlogHer
Here are some final photos of BlogHer in a Flickr photo set. That’s a bad photo of me with Arianna Huffington at top; Halley Suitt in a smaller image. As for videos, here are three, with more coming in mid- to late August: From top: • Jory des Jardins, co-founder of BlogHer, talked about the […]