Photo by J.D. Lasica I‘m back home after a crazy-busy week at Macworld Expo in San Francisco (Monday-Tuesday) and the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (Wednesday to Friday). I blogged earlier about my panel at the P2P Media Summit on Wednesday. I’m not covering this as a journalist covering the electronics space. Rather, capturing […]
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P2P Media Summit at CES
Here’s the thing about Macworld Expo (in San Francisco) and the Consumer Electronics Show (in Las Vegas) being held on the same week: It drives tech fanatics like me crazy because you only have time to record media and take in a handful of product announcements or interesting events because much of your time is […]
Book review of ‘Viral Spiral’
We needed someone to chronicle the creative ferment and astonishing changes whipping around us in the Web 2.0-enabled commons. And now David Bollier has done so in his meticulous and very readable new book, Viral Spiral (New Press, $27 hardcover), whose publication date is either tomorrow or next week. (Disclosure: I’ve known the author since […]
2009 conferences: Social media, tech, marketing
I published this a week ago but am republishing it now because it’s quite timely on Jan. 1 and because I added several additional events to the calendar.
For the past two years I put together a calendar of some of the best social media, technology, media and marketing conferences for the upcoming year. Here’s the list for 2009. Apologies, I had to leave out events outside the U.S. or the list would triple in size, and I left out newspaper conferences.
Xeni Jardin on BoingBoing’s move into video
Xeni Jardin from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Xeni Jardin, one of the hosts of the hugely successful site BoingBoing.net ("a directory of wonderful things"), talks about boingboing.tv and the evolution from the site’s early days to its push into online video in this 6-minute interview conducted at the Web 2.0 Summit. For those who don’t […]