Author – Journalist — Bon Vivant
Kevin Ashton’s book on innovation and creativity “How To Fly A Horse” addresses similar themes and ideas to those Cary Tennis and I do in our work on completing your creative projects in “Finishing School: That Happy Ending To The Writing Project You Just Can’t Seem To Get Done.”
Read MoreOne of the tech employees who rides a company bus from San Francisco to Silicon Valley engaged me in a dialogue about the flood of tech money into San Francisco real estate. He’s a reasonable guy and I tried to answer in kind. More conversation needed!
Read MorePassing on the meme is an easy act, so easy most of us don’t pause to check if it’s true. Although I fancy myself too experienced as a journalist to fall into that trap, I did earlier this week. What it revealed about me isn’t all that flattering, but it is a call to operate differently on the web.
Read MoreThe Electronic Frontier Foundation offered journalists tips on keeping their sources safe, but all of them seemed flawed or too technical for the average person to use easily. What’s an investigative journalist to do?
Read MoreThis the afterlife, as ruined by lawyers — a corporate-sponsored hereafter.
Read MoreLast night’s bloody Occupy Oakland demonstration proved to me the vital importance of Twitter in bearing witness in real time, a time when the conventional media often turns off the camera, looks away or refuses to report.
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