“Enthusiastic Republicans don’t see the choice of Palin as affirmative action, despite her thin résumé and gaping absence of foreign policy knowledge, because they expect Republicans to put an underqualified “babe,” as Rush Limbaugh calls her, on the ticket. They have a tradition of nominating fun, bantamweight cheerleaders from the West, like the previous Miss… Continue Reading
A few years ago, I sat in a meeting with Jeff Jarvis, Brian Oberkirch, Grace Davis, Andy Carvin and others and listened to everyone talk about how to handle disasters post-Katerina–and how we nerds could possibly help. That memory makes it especially sweet to see the Gustaveinformation center and tools many of the same folks–and… Continue Reading
“t is conceivable that some people will think John McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate because she is a woman. I know you find this shocking, but I swear I have heard it mentioned. McCain does not believe in pandering to identity politics. He was looking for someone who was well prepared… Continue Reading
Arse Elektronika 2008 — “Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?” — will take place at CELLspace (San Francisco). September 25 thru 28, 2008. My friend Viviane and I will be presenting a talk at Arse Elektronika 2008 — Sept 27th at CELLspace (San Francisco). Here’s what we’re going to discuss–Avoiding the Emily Gould Effect“Oversharing”, sex… Continue Reading
Working this am, then heading to Slow Food Nation in SF for the afternoon. Everything is sold out, but we are going to go explore the markets and soak up ambiance. Somehow, going to Slow Food after watching Obama last night seems just right. Watching the acceptance speech, it struck me how much America has… Continue Reading
Last year I was a reviewer for the Knight News Challenge; this year I am helping to manage and evangelize the program. As you hopefully know by now, #KNC08 gives people around the world a chance to apply for and receive funding for projects that support local online news, community discourse and information-exchange in a… Continue Reading
Some observations about social media..and my own shifting use of it, right now.Back in the day, say 2005, blogging was the main way to do the following: make your voice heard be part of a community establishe a reputation for your ideas influence thought and community Needless to say, in those days I loved the… Continue Reading
So my Peoples Software co-founder Lisa Williams drove back from Boulder to Boston. It took 4 days and it was l–o-o-o-n-n -n-gggg. Lisa’s home now, tho, and she did a post about Family Dinner, a weekly supper she used to make back in the day (when I also posted my family dinners).Couple of things:a) Lisa,… Continue Reading
The third year of the Knight News Challenge begins right now, did you know that?This is the third year that the Knight Foundation, based in Miami, is running an open competition to award roughly $5MM to a group of projects that support innovative online journalism, social media, community discourse and information exchange, all with a… Continue Reading
Andrew Hyde got the TechStars teams to take a break right before Investor Day and spend one hour making a LipDub video. We did The Wombats song, Lets Dance to Joy Division and it was a blast. The joke is that when people who don’t know me are going to ask what I did this… Continue Reading
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