Beam Me Up, Mr. Mayor!
Mayor/Governor Moonbeam (Jerry Brown) has started a blog. The Christian Science Monitor examines what this means.
(Thanks to Jim Horton for pointing out this story.)
One of the most intriguing new products unveiled at DEMOfall was a USB “smart drive” created by U3. Here’s the idea: on a USB thumb drive (for you Luddites that’s a thing the size of your thumb – get it? – that you plug into your computer), you can hold not only your data, but…
Robert Scoble takes a crack at the question of how to make RSS simple for users. I agree that we should make things simple for readers whenever possible. I have even argued in this space in the past to come up with another, more user-friendly name for RSS. But then I got to thinking. Are…
Reuters.com: “The Wikipedia, which has surged this year to become the most popular reference site on the Web, is fast overtaking several major news sites as the place where people swarm for context on breaking events … Some 350,000 people have contributed to the grassroots publishing phenomenon, which lets any Web user contribute terms, background…
Seth Godin is usually known for his marketing advice. But that’s fundamentally what politics ends up being all about anyway, isn’t it? In assessing a debate between David Keene and Ralph Neas over judicial nominations, he determines that Keene was believeable and on message, while Neas sounded "like a Moot Court debater." (For you lawyers…
PRSA’s New York chapter is putting on what should be an interesting event on September 29 called "NY MegaTech Day." It’s essentially a daylong seminar on blogging and new technologies for online PR. It features prominent bloggers like Steve Rubel and BL Ochman and should provide much food for thought. The agenda is here and…
Marianne Hudson of the Kauffman Foundation’s Entreworld asks: What books or articles have been most helpful to you in your entrepreneurial growth venture? Certainly an interesting question. First, I second her recommendation of Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start, which I have suggested to a number of budding entrepreneurs lately. But I would also…