I spent Monday in Southern California at a strategy session organized by developer/videoblogger Markus Sandy at his house in Ojai. About eight of us, plus another eight developers in a Flash meeting, charted out the next phase of Ourmedia — stage 2 of the personal media revolution. Among the items on tap in the next […]
Top 5 ‘sweet websites’
The Pacer, the online student newspaper at the University of Tennessee, Martin: Top five “sweet” websites. Five websites that will enahnce your experience on the Internet. 1. LivePlasma, a music discovery site 2. Ourmedia, free storage and bandwidth for your digital media 3. YouSendIt, prevent attachments from bouncing (up to 1GB) 4. Gmail, Google’s email […]
Interviewing Elisabeth Shue
I’ve been a huge fan of actress Elisabeth Shue for the past 20 years, so it was a big personal thrill to speak with her at length Friday night during the special screening of her director-husband’s film "Teach" at a Creative Commons event in San Francisco. We chatted about the third child she’s expecting (at […]
TechCrunch party
It’s been a crazy weekend. One of the highlights came Friday night when I was invited to Michael (TechCrunch) Arrington’s place for one of his vaunted tech gatherings. This one was a book release party for Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, authors of “Naked Conversations,” about how businesses can better understand the blog world. A […]
Liberty index
“Hammer of Truth” Stephen Gordon has posted a scorecard of the entire House of Representatives, scoring how congressmen fall on a Libertarian index. Given that Libertarians have traditionally voted Republican, you’d expect Republicans to dominate the top slots, right? But Republicans take only 1 of the top 20 slots in the Liberty index. In fact, […]