The New York Times OpEd contributor Frank Rich is one of the few in the MSM that I respect.His articles have links to reference the events, comments, and/or stats on which he bases his opinions, a refreshing change from what is usually found in MSM.His article “Shoddy! Tawdry! A Televised Train Wreck!” in today’s paper is good perspective on the disconnect between the top down driven traditional media vs. the reality of the bottom up driven engaged citizenry.
Not to plug the NYT to overtly, but the Sunday Magazine is devoted to Green issues.There are articles under the headings of Act, Eat, Invent, Learn, Live, Move and Build.
Chris was interviewed on 10/13/06 by Hamlet Au of Millions of Us on Second Life.His synopsis of The Long Tail takes less than 3 minutes, including the ‘book signing’ segment.Lots of arm flailing then sparkle dust when he signs a book. Just too odd…
James summarizes his book in 2 minutes.He gives example of how it applies to Real Estate:tap intelligence of your industry as well as your customers with goal of more info = better decisions.
John speaks to Google NYC about his book “Search”, he suggests reading his SearchBlog. Interesting but sound quality is not that great.Posted on The Official Google Channel on YouTube as part of their Authors@Google series.
Chris speaking at TED in 2004 and how Wired predicts and tracks tech trends. Four stages of Tech:Critical price, Critical mass, Displace another tech, Become nearly free. Talks about 10 examples from antiviral meds to hybrid cars to VOIP.You can see he was already working on his new book “Free”.
TED talk on YouTube: Chris Anderson: Technology’s Long Tail
Scoble loves Twitter and from this clip I would guess almost as much as he loves his his caffeine. In addition to talking about the importance of various new tools he plugs book he’s reading “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies” by Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff.
YouTube: Scoble & Rumford Discuss Social Media & Brands
Dan speaks at UNC at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science in December of 2007.This YouTube clip is just under an hour – I wish they had not stopped it just at the point where he was taking questions.
Great news for those who support Barak Obama – in addition to his huge win in South Carolina on Saturday, Caroline Kennedy has endorsed his candidacy .Today in her NYT OpEd A President Like My Father she speaks eloquently about the similar qualities she sees in Obama.This is no small endorsement as it is her first ever in a presidential race.
Also on Sunday it was announced that Ted Kennedy endorsing Obama at a rally with Obama being held at American University on Monday 28 January.Sen. Kennedy will not just endorse Obama but has said he intends to campaign for him to help with the 22 states that will vote on February 5th, Super Tuesday.
What will be interesting to watch is how Billary will spin these two hefty endorsements in light of Robert Kennedy, Jr. endorsement of Hillary in late November 2007.My prediction is that Billary will not play up the RFK Jr. endorsement and promote a divide in the Kennedy clan.
But I’m much more pragmatic about these things than the Clinton’s…
