A first glance at the title for this panel might tempt one to think that the word “farmers” is a techie euphemism for something other than farmers … but it isn’t. “Farmers” means “farmers” – hard work, crops, livestock, tractors, weather, harvesting, soil, long hours, … well, you get the idea. “Business” means “business,” and “mobile” […]
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Some questions don’t have immediately apparent answers, but are important because of the expanding array of open-ended questions that result from them. Many who routinely deal with such topics are well-versed in rote knowledge and empirical data – but (perhaps even more importantly) they also act as facilitators for the fluid, polydirectional discussions of these […]
Every time we type our name, birthday, address, favorite color, or so on into another pesky field, we don’t ponder its future or how it will be used. Signing up for a website? A joke a day? Ordering something from a sketchy looking site? We take these “free” services for granted and up until recently […]
As my day was just starting and hers was winding down, moderator of The Last of the Launch and Leave ‘Ems Anjali Ramachandran, who is based in London, and I met on Skype for a quick interview about her upcoming SXSWi panel. The Last of the Launch and Leave ‘Ems will discuss the fleeting trend […]
The only constant is change. From the advent of movable type to social media and the cloud, technology has always changed the way we tell stories, and it always will. A relatively new movement of journalists (hacks) and technologists (hackers) have come together to learn from and inspire each other. Together they combine their skills […]
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Bob Metcalfe – inventor of Ethernet, internet pioneer, 3com founder and many other pretty remarkable things. Mr. Metcalfe has now started his fifth career as Professor of Innovation in the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Texas. I had the opportunity to talk with Mr. Metcalfe about his upcoming panel […]