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Okay at Least Cliff Stoll is Hilarious

He may have written the dumbest article ever on the Internet, but people have been telling me to give Cliff another chance.
And indeed, you should watch this video because he COMPLETELY redeems himself at TED.

People You Should Know: Steven Levy

Most of the people I’ll blog about are technologists of some sort, or people who are using social media in ways that can be replicated in the news room.
This is not one of those people. This is one of the kings of technology journalism: Steven Levy.
My bias in this particular profile is the same as [...]

Journalism: Tech Talk

My talk went quite well today. Was very well attended and the audience was more than attentive. This was definitely worth the drive here. It’s always nice to be around students and working journalists who seem to be engaged in the world of modern media.
I have the podcast finished, and I’ll be putting it up [...]

SXSW: Jane McGonigal on Alternate Reality Gaming

Jane McGonigal is one of the pre-eminent alternative reality game (ARG) designers. She was the lead designer on i love bees, the first popular ARG which was the marketing tool that helped launch Halo 2.
She is a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future, where she studies the science of happiness, along with her [...]

SXSW Keynote: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Founder

Sunday’s keynote address by Mark Zuckerberg kicks off in about 30 minutes. I’ll be live-blogging the talk as I did yesterday with Henry Jenkins.
Zuckerberg founded Facebook, along with three other computer science students at Harvard, in February 2004. The service was rolled out from university to university during its initial launch. He currently serves as [...]

SXSW: Henry Jenkins and Steven Johnson

The first time I met Henry Jenkins, he told me that when he started working in Comparative Media Studies his colleagues looked down upon him. He was the first person who labeled what we did as “the cultural gutter.”
It’s great to see him opening the SXSW Interactive Conference, filling ballroom A and the spillover in [...]

People You Should Know: Willo O’Brien

This post is more self-serving than other People You Should Know posts. Willo is one of the folks in the Twitter-verse who is seemingly connected to everyone. She was my first Twitter-stalk (the act of adding someone you’ve never met based on an interest in what they do – and their connection to other people. [...]

People You Should Know: Hugh Forrest

Since this is a very SXSW opening post, it seemed appropriate to introduce you to the man behind the most important technology/geek conference of the year. SXSW Interactive started 15 years ago, six years after the Music Conference and Festival took off.
Initially, there weren’t many folks here, but the event quickly turned into a must-attend [...]

People You Should Know: Dave Winer

There are people in the tech world who have reputations, and then there people who have Reputations. Dave Winer is definitely the latter.
He is one of the many folks responsible for the syndication, Read/Write phenomenon going on these days. He helped push RSS, CMS and blogging tools in the Web world. Those three software tools [...]

People You Should Know: Larry Lessig

Larry Lessig has done more than I’m going to talk about in this particular post. If you follow the reading list, you’ll come across him a few times (Code, The Future of Ideas).
He’s here because he made the Creative Commons, the copy left system which allows anyone to make something creative, to protect it from [...]

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