Writing
725 posts on careers, communication, technology and civic life, since 2005.
I was talking to Daniel K. Gillmor at Penguin Day about podcasting and audio recording. I recorded this description of a program he helps out on that teached public school kids to produce "radio" shows. We talked about the technology they use, and later, not on the recording, we talked a bit more about using…
Andrew is running for public advocate, I like his explanation of the befit of low cost pubvlic wifi…. One of your big ideas is to build a universal wi-fi network serving the whole city. That sounds cool- but what'll it do for New Yorkers? For one, low-cost universal broadband will plug our kids into the […
Politicians who neglect to understand the impact of Web addresses have regretted it. It is truly amazing that so many politicians (or rather their staff or campaign staff) fail to see the value in spending a few hundred dollars a year protecting their "brand identity". The above article in the boston globe refers…
So as i mentioned in my initial reflections on the conference, calendaring was a hot topic of discussion. These seem to be the three calendaring applications that folks were talking about. Upcoming.org (i love it, and think that there are so many applications for using it more, think dynamic blog calendars, tagging events to pull…
Gunner, you sadist, 10 rounds of speed geeking? I was ok through round 6. For those who don;t know what Speed Geeking is, the basic idea is that a bunch of conference attendees get 5 minutes to demo their "coolest thing" which might be a product, a tool, or a technology. The rest of the…
I have touched on this before, but let me lay it out here. Problem: Tech conferences are geat opportunities to network, but formal sessions get in the way of hallway conversation. The gut response to this would be to get rid of the sessions and just allow people the venue to have informal discussions. But…
I got hom a little while ago from Penguin Day (I actually walked home from the post conference watering hole on 33rd and 3rd ( about 2.5miles and 4 minutes according to google maps now, since i wasn;t walking along the FDR, it was more than 2.5 miles and even if i were driving the drive,…
Well tagging has hit the big time with this AP story picked up by CNN . It is a pretty good primer on tagging, and mentiones the potential problem of tag polution and hijaking. this is the best line in the pice Tagging is fundamentally about tapping the collective human wisdom, rather than relying on a…
This has been tagging week on my blog. The technology is really exciting and new. A few days ago i discovered extisp.icio.us (interestingly the link is not extisp.icio.us it is actually http://kevan.org/extispicious , but it would seem that anyone working on things related to tagging wnts to be like del.icio.us with their clever url.…
My friend Noel pointed me towards upcoming.org yesterday morning as I was in the middle of some data wrangling, and i didn't get to look into it much until later in the day at which point I was kind of BLOWN AWAY. What they have done almost seems to be inspired by an article that…