After the VC breakfast in Mountain View, I drove up to San Francisco for the final day of Syndicate. Some interesting tidbits from the sessions I attended: Scott Gatz of Yahoo! pointed out that The Washington Post just launched a Votes Database that lets citizens subscribe to an RSS feed of their representative’s votes on […]
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AlwaysOn VC breakfast
I caught the last half of the AlwaysOn VC breakfast today, hosted by Tony Perkins, with Silicon Valley legend Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Brad Feld of Mobius Venture Capital and John Jarve of Menlo Ventures. Some notable quotes: Draper: “Don’t come to us telling how you’re going to do Web 2.0. It’s too […]
Brewster Kahle’s fight for open access
Today’s San Jose Merc has a two-part package about Internet Archive co-founder and digital librarian visionary Brewster Kahle (I took the above photo of Brewster when the Internet Archive hosted the citizens media summit I organized on May 14, 2005): He fights for open access to the world’s digital library Dedicating his career to open […]
Speaking at TechSummit 2005
I just gave the keynote address during lunch at TechSummit 2005 in Dana Point, Calif., the annual convention of the Computer & Communications Industry Association and Open Source & Industry Alliance. Lawrence Lessig is speaking tonight about the Grokster decision’s impact on technology innovation. Here’s the conference agenda (PDF). My talk centered on fair use […]
Mini-review of my video iPod
Thursday morning, I bought a wickedly cool video iPod (black, 30gigs), after drooling over Steve Garfield’s Sean Gilligan’s new gadget (white) on Wednesday night. When the original iPod came out, a national columnist wrote that it looked like a device beamed back from the future. Well, this baby looks like a toy from the 23rd […]