The very New York Lloyd Grove interviews what he clearly perceives as the very Silicon Valley Mike Arrington (can you say pirate marauder, Lloyd?) in the tony Conde Nast Portfolio, and this little snippet happens. Lloyd says (referring to the Valley): It’s a pretty savage Darwinian environment out there, isn’t it? And Mike responds: Absolutely,… Continue Reading

Here’s the quick list of conferences I am either speaking at or planning to attend this spring/summer, so far. March 14-15, Country Living Women Entrepreneurs , Chicago, IL March 20, Under the Radar: The Business of Web Apps, Mountain View, CA April 22-25, O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo , San Francisco, CA April 30- May 2nd,… Continue Reading

Via George Kelly, just came across TechSmith‘s t he jing project, an experiment that seems to take the beloved snagit web capture tool for images and video and turn it into a web app, with hosting, and then easily share what you create. There’s a blog and lots of how to, and a note on… Continue Reading

“Anyone who has been following my work for a while knows that I heart LiveJournal with a passion. I’ve been on LJ in one form or another since 1999/2000 and it’s still the only community that I check in with daily for personal purposes. While I love LJ personally, I also deeply respect its history… Continue Reading

Paidcontent’s got a talk with Chris Johnson, who runs content and biz dev at Hearst Digital and who was my colleague at AOL, back in the day. Chris is great to work with, and clearly having an impact at Hearst. A quote from the piece: “We are very aware that you can’t just create a… Continue Reading

Middle of day two, WeMedia, Miami. Some observations: This is a conference that wants to be about media, technology, convergence and social justice. There’s a broad diversity of types of people, industries, ages. At moments it is rich and amazing, at other moments, it doesn’t gell. Some of what is working really well for me:… Continue Reading

“Too many journalists don’t respect technology development as a creative activity — they think developers should just build stuff they want. Too many technologists don’t respect journalism as an intellectual activity — they think journalists just pump out content for their algorithms to process. Too many journalists really don’t like technology change; they blame it… Continue Reading

Liveblogging from WeMedia: Alberto Ibarguen, President, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Diana Wells, President, Ashoka, and Keith Hammond, Ashoka, are talking about the profound social impact of journalism. Alberto talking about reaching out to community foundations to help them understand how information is an essential community need–you can’t run a democracy without… Continue Reading

There’s some chatter about Etsy as a potential successor to eBay–Umair says “Etsy has the potential to be as revolutionary as Google in terms of DNA, and that new DNA might just let it solve a Very Big Problem” but coyly doesn’t get into his big insight. Read/Write web then says “The reason it is… Continue Reading

AP’s Jim Kennedy, VP Strategy, The Associated Press with Fabrice Florin, NewsTrust, Mary Hodder, Dabble and Josh Cohen, Google News talking about search relevancy, metadata and what needs to be done to move search, news aggregation, filtering, forward. Question: What about the metadata people and machines need to apply in search? Mary: The tagging (organizer)… Continue Reading