Fascinating discussion by Dan Gillmor and others recently at the Center for Citizen Media blog: Helping the Almost-Journalists Do Journalism. Excerpts: The people who’ve done the best reporting on this scandal [the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay] have not, for the most part, been working for major media outfits. They’ve been working for that […]
Deborah Kaplan on Zerofootprint.net
Interview with ZeroFootprint from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 4 1/2-minute video interview with Deborah Kaplan, executive director of Zerofootprint.net, an amazing organization based in Toronto and devoted to help organizations, cities and individuals recognize their carbon footprint and take specific measures to help reduce climate change. The interview was conducted at the Stanford […]
Back from the cloud computing roundtable
I’m back from the Aspen Institute, where last week we held a roundtable on "Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: Implications for Social Interaction, Governance and Money." Participants included John Seely Brown, Esther Dyson, Bill Coleman, Mark Bregman, Jeff Dachis, Ann Winblad, Mark Rotenberg, Arjun Gupta, Arturo Artom and lots of other smart folks. […]
Silicon Valley’s Top 50 Web Influencers
I’ve been in Aspen all week so missed this announcement from a couple of days ago: NowPublic announces Silicon Valley "MostPublic Index" Identifies the Web’s 50 most influential people in Silicon Valley NowPublic, the world’s largest participatory news network, today announced its second MostPublic Index, identifying the 50 most influential individuals in Silicon Valley/San Francisco. […]
Photos of Aspen trip
Here are 50-plus photos in a Flickr set from my trip this week to Aspen, Colo., including shot of: • former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, John Seely Brown and others at the Aspen Institute; • trails and vistas around Aspen, and • a few shots of an exhibit of Tibetan Buddhist art (above) that […]