We’ve been having a really great conversation about the recent WikiLeaks incident on an informal Fletcherite group list, and I wanted to get some of the thoughts up that have been spiraling about, as well as refine my own thoughts. For those I mention below, if they’ve got a blog, they’re well worth the follow so [...]
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On Monday, Henry McCance wrote about why he moved his firm from Boston to Silicon Valley, and why Boston isn’t a good place to start a company. Well, I found this to be crap, and sent it to a few locals in high places to see if they had a response. One of them was Doug Banks, [...] TechCrunch had a good post today on how there needs to be more room for opinion in news reporting (“We Need More Opinions in News, Not Less,” TechCrunch, 8 July 2010). A few thoughts. Other Publications are Already Doing It It might be good to take a cue from publications like the Economist. I quite appreciate [...] If you’re anything like me, if you hear the words “I have a new invention!” you think of an object, of something you can hold. And if you’ve been listening to the verbiage of the digital age, you probably haven’t heard the word “invention” thrown around much. So my question: Are digital tools like Twitter and Facebook [...] [This post was originally written for the Girls in Tech blog] Last night I had the pleasure of seeing Greg Mortenson speak. Greg started a campaign 16 years ago to increase the number of rural schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which has since grown into the Central Asia Institute (among other initiatives). I could say a lot [...] There’s no escaping the recent headlines of big names having something “private” being discovered, and having their brand tarnished – sometimes severely. And there’s also no lack of backlash by said big names on the issue of being able to have a private life that’s private. Take Tiger for example (I didn’t even know what link to [...] I was listening to a back episode of NYT Tech Talk podcast from 9 December on this story about governments offering up data for developers to mash-up things like phone apps that can give you the safest route home at night (using government crime data) and other such things. While I support open access to information (and [...] [Sidenote: this is not my rant post. I'll get that up tomorrow] I had a quick thought on building a strategy for an organization or a company. I’m going to be involved in putting together the long-term strategy of one of the organizations that I’m involved in. We’ve been lucky enough to have a DC-area think [...] |
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