Here are 33 photos taken at the Maker Faire — a celebration of geeky, whimsical craftsmanship — at the San Mateo Fairgrounds today. Scott Beale has many more here.
Israel’s Web 2.0 scene
Social marketing expert Ayelet Noff talks about the social media and Web 2.0 scene in Israel during this 9-minute video interview I conducted with her during our blogger posse road trip to Israel. A former New Yorker, Ayelet is a rising star in Web 2.0 circles in Tel Aviv and helped us with all phases […]
Wireless AirCard: Internet (almost) everywhere
In December I bought a Sierra Wireless AirCard 875U. It’s time to tell you how the experiment is going. What it is: The AirCard is a wireless 3G modem that you can insert into your Mac or PC laptop’s USB port to gain connectivity to the broadband Internet. Why I did it: I’d put up […]
ReelChanges: viewer-funded documentaries
Big banner on the wall: “How can the intersection of journalism & technology serve democracy?” That’s the overarching theme of NewsTools 2008, where 200 or so folks are gathered today (and tomorrow) at Yahoo! as well as Saturday at a Sunnyvale hotel for Innovations in Journalism Expo 2008. I’ll post a few highlights from today: […]
How to find the right domain name
At the IdeaLab blog, Dan Gillmor writes about the value of finding the right domain name and he points to a couple of free services I hadn’t heard of: MakeWords is a "name generator" — essentially, you plug in keywords and it gives you suggestions. The flexibility is impressive. You can tell it how the […]