Three of my good friends are among the five Silicon Valley “hotties” in ValleyWag’s Web 2.Ooh contest: from top, Julia French, Valerie Cunningham and Micki Krimmel. I’ve got better photos of all three than ValleyWag does. So I’ll post them here. Plus, here’s a bonus photo of Julia from last year and Micki from this […]
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Is Al Gore stalking me?
I’m here in Aspen, Colo., at the 15th annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology, this year focusing on the Mobile Generation. It’s a brilliant group of people, 25 in all, who’ve gathered to discuss the future of mobile technologies. I’ll be writing a short report over the coming weeks. I forgot to bring my […]
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 […]
AlwaysOn conference: YouTube and clip culture
It’s the first full day of the AlwaysOn Innovation Summit at Stanford University. There are lots of bloggers posting good coverage of the proceedings. There’s a live Webcast and chat of the event today and tomorrow. I arrived in time for the panel, “How Far Will Consumer-Generated Media Go?” with moderator Kara Swisher of the […]
On ‘Cranky Geeks’
Had a good time today meeting veteran tech columnist John C. Dvorak for the first time. I was invited to appear on his 3-month-old IPTV show “Cranky Geeks.” Besides head crank Dvorak and regular Sebastian Rupley, West Coast editor of PC magazine, Anil Dash, vice president of Six Apart, chimed in with consistently wise commentary. […]