I’m attending the Tech Policy Summit in San Jose, a first-time conference about technology issues that is drawing a crowd of heavy hitters — most of the 150 or so people in the audience could well be on stage. Some of the speakers include Deborah Platt Majoras, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, […]
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More at Web 2.0
More from the Web 2.0 Summit: Citizen journalism Tuesday afternoon, Barry Diller and NY Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger shared the stage with emcee John Battelle. (Moments earlier, when Google CEO Eric Schmidt walked backstage, Diller joined him. Would have loved to have listened in on that conversation.) I asked Sulzberger — who’s a hero in […]
Coverage of Web 2.0
I’m here in San Francisco at the Web 2.0 Summit, which has become the must-attend tech conference of the year. As customary, Day 1 is made up of workshops, with the formal conference in the grand ballroom kicking off in the mid-afternoon. Advertising 2.0 First panel I attended was Advertising 2.0, with Rafat Ali, Founder […]
Notes from Digital Hollywood
Appeared Monday at the Digital Hollywood conference in Santa Monica, CA — the second time I’ve attended (the first was a few years back with Doc Searls, who told me, "You should be up there." This time, I was.). Spoke on the citizen media panel about emerging trends in participatory media. Some random notes from […]
Amber MacArthur: Tech news up north
At Real People Network, I have a new video interview with Amber MacArthur, the co-host (with Leo Laporte) of "Call for Help," a great tech show on G4 cable TV in Toronto.