Sunday we attended American Jeff Pulver‘s power breakfast kicking off The Marker Com.Vention. Liked it quite a bit — reminded me of a combination AlwaysOn Innovation Summit at Stanford with a bit of a Consumer Electronics Show thrown in. I posted photos of the show, and I’ll post a video interview I conducted with Jeff […]
Photos from the blogger trip to Israel
Here are photos on Flickr that I’ve been taking on the blogger posse touring Israel. Much more to follow. We have a group blog at Travelinggeeks.com.
A blogger posse in Israel
I’ve been swamped over the past two weeks readying for a last-minute trip to Israel. I’m honored to be past of a blogger/citizen journalist delegation heading to the Holy Land. The trip was arranged and paid for by the Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest, which covers California and the greater West, though […]
Ellen Miller on the Sunlight Foundation
At the Tech Policy Summit in Hollywood the other week I had a chance to sit down for a few minutes with Ellen Miller, co-founder and executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, which fights the good fight in Washington, DC, trying to bring transparency to the nation’s legislative hallways and public policies. They launched the […]
MaxRoam: Travel global, pay local
I’m traveling to Israel this week as part of a social media delegation. Among the million and one things I had to do to prepare was get a local cell phone service that won’t bankrupt me. Andy Abramson, who knows about these things, says the usual roaming charges you’ll pay your usual carrier (in my […]