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Venture Capitalist Joanna Rees: San Francisco’s “Innovation” Mayor?
Wednesday afternoon was one of those rare San Francisco days where it was too hot to stay working indoors, so I popped over to an event that Peter Hirshberg, a local entrepreneur, had told me about: a chance to meet Joanna Rees, a candidate for mayor of San Francisco, and hear about her “innovation” platform. ...
WSJ’s SafeHouse: For Anonymous Wall Street Leaks
The Wall Street Journal has launched SafeHouse – “Securely share information with The Wall Street Journal.” It asks: If you have newsworthy contracts, correspondence, emails, financial records or databases from companies, government agencies or non-profits, you can send them to us using the SafeHouse service. It’s an interesting concept but one with a problem: anonymity. ...
Coming Up: Stanford Innovation Journalism Conference – May 23 – 25
Coming up in a couple of weeks is the 8th Conference on Innovation Journalism (IJ-8) at Stanford Univeristy, May 23 – 25. It’s a great conference and I’ll be speaking on ethics and innovation journalism. It’s only $50 and you can register here: http://ij8.innovationjournalism.org/ The conference is organized by the Stanford Center for Innovation and ...
Women in Tech: Anita Borg Women of Vision Awards
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology will celebrate its 2011 “Women of Vision” award winners at Mission City Ballroom, Santa Clara Convention Center, May 19. I attended last year and it was great. I got to meet and speak with Arianna Huffington, the keynote speaker. Here are this year’s winners: Chieko Asakawa, IBM ...
Intel Announces “3D” Transistor Technology – Moore’s Law Extended
Intel said it will manufacture new microprocessors based on a breakthrough technology using hundreds of millions of 3D transistors. The technology was first announced nearly a decade ago in 2002. It is only now that Intel has figured out how to make chips with the new transistors. Intel expects at least a three year lead ...
Innovation Journalism: Why Silicon Valley Startups Deserve a Level Playing Field
Media coverage is very important for startups. It is how they gain respect in their community, it is how they can win investors, and it is invaluable in helping to recruit staff. Positive media coverage will also help gain users of their products and services, providing valuable marketing services that could cost tens of thousands ...
MediaWatch: Bin Laden News Shows SODOMM Effect In Social Media
The world’s social media was abuzz last night following the announcement of the violent death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. Erick Schonfeld, writes: many people first heard about the news on Twitter, but more often than not the original source of that news could be traced back to mainstream media. Although some unwitting on-the-ground ...
Should The New York Times Be Carrying Techcrunch Stories?
The New York Times has an ethics policy that bars its reporters from investing in companies in their beat coverage. So why is it publishing Techcrunch headlines? If go to the home page of New York Times, or to its technology section, you will likely see headlines from a selection of partners, which includes Techcrunch. ...
More Thoughts on Curation and Rescuing Content from the Obscurity of the Timeline
Last week I wrote about the tyranny of the timeline and how good content disappears once it is pushed off the home page and into the archives. [How Curation Can Rescue Great Content From The Tyranny Of The Timeline – SVW] Of course, the content is still there in the archives, it is reachable, and ...
Wow! Kara Swisher Investigation Forced Arrington to Disclose Investments
Kara Swisher, editor of “All Things Digital,” reported that Techcrunch Editor Mike Arrington disclosed his investments in startups following her questions about the matter, put to AOL senior management. She writes: On Tuesday night around 10 pm (just when I start getting revved up), I wrote a testy email to Arrington’s bosses at AOL-Huffington and ...