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I was proud to have the opportunity to speak at a press conference at City Hall on the topic of Philadelphia’s request for Google to install an ultra high speed data network here in Philly.
That is Mayor Nutter looking at me as I share my thoughts on why Philly would be an ideal testbed […]

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Notes from the Rethinking the Library event at P’unk Avenue in Philly.
The place was packed with passionate people, who sent their ideas flying around the room about the unique institution of the American Library.
Panelists included:
Jim Pecora
Maria Falgoust
Sarah Murphy
Moderator:
Nate Hill
Some threads:

The importance of diverse space within libraries (for quiet reading, […]

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Phil Shapiro is a teacher, media maker, prankster and an innovator. He’s musician, storyteller, and open source fanatic. He even created a new job title for himself: public geek. Phil knows more about YouTube than anyone we have met. […]

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Commercial marketing is a powerful discipline that influences people (say, you) to behave a certain way (say, buy Count Chocula cereal). But what if the concepts and tools used by commercial marketers were used to effect positive social change–to get people to stop smoking, exercise regularly, or conserve energy? That’s […]

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Click here to see the video interviews with attendees of SXSWi 2008 mapped onto where they attended from.
Every March, people who live, eat, and breath interactive technology converge on Austin Texas from North American and beyond. This map is for people who are trying to figure out whether it makes sense to attend the next […]

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Come Par-tay with Shireen Mitchell (digitalsista on twitter), the founder and director of Digital Sisters, a DC based nonprofit which promotes and provides tech education and enrichment for women and their children who are traditionally underserved.
We are going to look at how gender, class, and color factor into the digital […]

Below are my rough notes from some of the PodCampNYC 2.0 sessions I participated in. I hope folks who were not able to attend these sessions find these notes helpful. Note: these were created on the fly and niceties of punctuation, grammar and spelling are not always observed.
Here are links to notes for individual sessions:
Using […]

In my 4 days in Austin I met lots of people, performed at the Fray Cafe, absorbed panels, reconnected with people from all over the world, went to scads of parties, got quoted in ValleyWag (OK that’s a dubious one), shot heaps of videos, and ran around the Austin Convention Center in a cow suit.
Here […]

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Come chew the Cud with Jonny Goldstein and Scott Stead as we recount our excellent adventures on at SXSW Interactive 2008. We met tons of awesome people, reconnected with old friends, […]