Back now from Digital Hollywood in LA. Met a lot of great folks there, like David Gale of MTV New Media, Eric Forst of Visible Technologies, Alex Nesbitt of DigitalPodcast.com, Ann Greenberg of Sceneplay, James Segil of Edgecast, Brenda Garcia-Wierzchucki of Archos and Mark Rotblat of TubeMogul, among others. And saw a lot of familiar […]
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It’s all about the network
David Brooks’ latest column in the New York Times, The Outsourced Brain, reminded me of a conversation I had a week ago with Dianne Lynch, the new dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. Brooks writes: My G.P.S. goddess liberated me from this drudgery. She enabled me to externalize geographic information from […]
Web 2.0 bootcamp
I attended a great Web 2.0 University bootcamp in San Francisco today put on by Jeff Kelly (at the projection screen, above) of Hinchcliffe & Co. They have another one coming up in New York on Oct. 2. Very effective presentation — highly recommended, especially for companies looking to get oriented about the shifting social […]
Report from Office 2.0
The wi-fi at the second annual Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today was spotty, so I’m able to post this only now. I attended for the second straight year. Here are some photos. And here are some highlights: All the registrants received a free iPhone — pretty cool. (I didn’t because I’m a member […]
Back from Barcamp
Spent the afternoon at Barcamp Block in Palo Alto, Calif. Mostly hung with Socialtext founder-CEO Ross Mayfield, above (good shot, no?), and Valerie Cunningham of PodTech. Did some people watching — Peter Kaminsky, Tantek Çelik, Jay Dedman, Chris Messina, Tara Hunt and Kaliya Hamlin were among those on hand today — and enjoyed the Government […]