I just finished a talk, along with Dave Toole of Outhink Media, at the fifth annual MediaX conference at Stanford, being held today and Tuesday. About 300 educators and business people in the audience. (Why oh why did they have to schedule this smack in the middle of the Web 2.0 Expo? I’ll be there […]
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Is the Internet changing the world?
Here’s video #4 for Videoblogging Week (see others’ videos at MeFeedia). Last week I ran into social media pioneer Stowe Boyd at the Social Media Consensus gathering in Palo Alto, Calif. The organizer, Britain’s Bronwyn Kunhardt, is posing the question: Is the Internet good for humanity? We’ll be working together for a series of […]
Meeting Howard Berman at the Tech Policy Summit
I’m attending the Tech Policy Summit in San Jose, a first-time conference about technology issues that is drawing a crowd of heavy hitters — most of the 150 or so people in the audience could well be on stage. Some of the speakers include Deborah Platt Majoras, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, […]
Net neutrality in Ninja speak
>From Amber MacArthur at Amber Mac: Net neutrality in Ninja speak. Excerpt: If you’ve been following recent news about Canadian government docs suggesting that the Tories are not nervous about ISPs interfering with the net, you’re probably all over promoting net neutrality to save the Internet. If you don’t know what net neutrality is all […]
Mashups with Yahoo Pipes: A user’s guide
IT Management: Yahoo Pipes: A User’s Guide Yahoo Pipes is an interactive tool that enables you to combine many data feeds, like RSS, into a single aggregate. Pipes offers an intuitive visual programming field that lets you filter, remix, and mash-up these feeds to your heart’s content. p2pnet.net: Yahoo Pipes data mashups. It’s a “milestone […]