Spent Thursday night at a talk about politics at Adaptive Path in San Francisco, sponsored by Girls in Tech and Good Ol’ Girls. Peter Leyden, who’s a friend from here and there, gave a riveting talk about the wide sweeps of American history. We’re at another epic moment, he suggests: the dawning of a new […]
The NY Times — finally! — allows user comments on stories
Public editor Clark Hoyt in the Sunday NY Times: Civil Discourse, Meet the Internet. Excerpt: How does the august Times, which has long stood for dignified authority, come to terms with the fractious, democratic culture of the Internet, where readers expect to participate but sometimes do so in coarse, bullying and misinformed ways? The answer […]
3rd European Futurists Conference
I was invited to attend the 3rd European Futurists Conference in Lucerne, Switzerland, on Nov. 19-21. Alas, can’t make it, but looks like a great lineup.
At Digital Hollywood 2007
Back now from Digital Hollywood in LA. Met a lot of great folks there, like David Gale of MTV New Media, Eric Forst of Visible Technologies, Alex Nesbitt of DigitalPodcast.com, Ann Greenberg of Sceneplay, James Segil of Edgecast, Brenda Garcia-Wierzchucki of Archos and Mark Rotblat of TubeMogul, among others. And saw a lot of familiar […]
The origins of football
As everyone who went to Rutgers or Princeton knows, the first football game took place between Rutgers and Princeton in 1869 (perhaps by coincidence, that was the same year Rutgers’ student newspaper, the Targum, was born). With today’s contest between the New York Giants and Miami Dolphins at Wembley Stadium in London, the New […]