Month: May 2004

Had a thoroughly engaging dinner last night with Ross, Jerry Michalski, and Peter Kollock. Peter asked Jerry for a demo of Personal Brain, a personal mind mapping kind of product that is quite interesting. (Jerry advises TheBrain Technologies Corporation, the company behind The Brain.) I had heard about the product before, but never seen it…

Prof. Yabut has divined the Bush Administration’s exit strategy for Iraq. My sidenote to Iraq, if the good Professor is on to something: Be careful what you wish for. The Devil you know, and all that jazz. Just sayin.

Don’t know how I missed it, but the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology published its fifth and final issue last month. (I founded JOLT while a law student at the University of Richmond.) The site is now as attractive as it is substantive. (The same couldn’t be said of our first issue, which was…

I’m thoroughly enjoying the Red Herring Spring conference. I’ve often been the guy expected to pitch my company’s story (more on that later) — and the opportunity to watch dozens of companies pitch themselves is like a peek through the looking glass. And I’m also enjoying the experiment of setting up 100 conversations for the…

Just sat in on William Janeway’s keynote presentation at Red Herring Spring. I blogged my observations on the Socialtext Eventspace here. Two book recommendations from Janeway, that will be wort reading: Technology Paradise Lost: Why Companies Will Spend Less to Get More from Information Technology by Erik Keller, and Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools,…

Ross has some great notes from the Red Herring Spring conference. Funny – I’ve worked at Socialtext for more than 2 months, this was the first time I’ve been in the same room with a co-worker. And it lasted 15 minutes, before Ross had to head back to SF for the Institute for the Future…

Hey AKMA — what do you make of this? Turns out Dan Brown left out the most controversial part of The Da Vinci Code was that Jesus may have survived the crucifixion? Whoa. (Brown claims he has plenty of supporting theories as to how this may have been, but ultimately decided it would have been…

I’m in Monterey, at the Red Herring Spring conference, and am blogging from the RH100 presentations. This is great stuff — CEOs from some remarkable companies are presenting about their company strategy. I only wish I understood half of what was being discussed. If you go to Recent changes you can see my recent posts,…

I’m headed off to Monterey, California tomorrow to attend the Red Herring Spring Conference. (It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it.) As a sponsor, we’ve set up a Socialtext Eventspace for the event, and look to encourage quite a bit of conversation amongst the Red Herring 100 winners and various attendees. As…

I’m very pleased to announce the Obama blog, the weblog for Senator Barack Obama. Barack is running for U.S. Senate for the seat that Peter Fitzgerald is vacating. You may notice a familiar name attached to some of the posts — I’m working with the campaign to help develop the blog. (Several veterans from the…