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“What is the question that I should be asking?”™ That is my favorite question, as also printed, slogan-like, on my business card. “What is the question that I should be asking?” is open ended, self-referential, and ju-jitsu-like in putting the person you are talking to in a position that must mimic yours. A facilitator for […]
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Experimental video channel created using Mogulus. Please check back for live events! (Schedule will be posted on the main blog page as well…) Go to the main Mogulus channel to also enjoy its social functions, like real time chat, and others.
photo by benoutram ‘The Long Tail‘ is the title of a book by Chris Anderson, editor of Wired, and of an apparently new phenomenon which many of us following the online worlds have come to understand from Chris’s blog of the same name ‘The Long Tail’. Put succintly, the concept of the long tail refers
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I am going to the Web2.0 Expo in Berlin. It is the first time that I participate in person in an O’Reilly conference, after having been an observer and commenter of the Web2.0 conferences, and am very much looking forward to it. The energy is apparent already! Web2.0 eats its own dog food, luckily, so
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There were a lot of very good speakers at the World Business Forum, and I was glad to be able and attend some of the sessions, and also to mingle with the other speakers. I met Eisner, from Disney, Chizen of Adobe, Perez of Kodak, Ray Kurzweil, and Colin Powell, well, of Kleiner Perkins, he
Couldn’t liveblog at the World Business Forum, but twittered Read More »
Agenda fairly full (some slots still free, shout if you are around), but the places are all close to each other View Larger Map
Traveling to Boston for the week Read More »
I will be in New York on Monday and Tuesday, in San Diego on Wednesday, and in San Francisco until Monday. The week is pretty full, but if you are around New York on the 4th, or in San Francisco on the 7th, and want to have breakfast, let me know as I am still
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I saw a piece of a BBC documentary about a British savant, Daniel Tammet, and was fascinated, since contrary to the character of Rain Man in the film, Danil was able to explain his capabilities, and observe the functioning of his brain. I picked up his book straight away when I saw it and read
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We Feel Fine is an incredible display of the power of the web to transform the way we think about humanity. Emotions are among the most human of characteristics, and being able to see their power dynamically is astonishing. We Feel Fine is a website that analyses blog postings to search for those that contain
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Family Tree Originally uploaded by david.orban This is a partial view of my family tree, as it is growing on http://geni.com, which enables family members to freely collaborate on adding further and further details. Started less then a month ago, my tree now includes almost 300 people, spanning 5 generations, and covering three continents.
