June 30, 2009 Today in my Twitter feed (yes, I finally joined, see sidebar badge!) I immediately benefited from the 'following' phenom to shortcut my research time when a new friend/follower in Australia, Tania Andrusiak, pointed to today’s Scientific American story called “Take two video games and call me in the morning” ---('ReTweet' visual at left) Guess it's time for … [Read more...]
Feb. 6, 2009 Today I had the pleasure of speaking with global fellowship recipients in Stanford's Innovation Journalism Program (here's VentureBeat's audio of Director David Nordfors explaining the concept of innovation journalism). I tried to explain Shaping Youth's version of innovation learning and thankfully, had asked Scott Arpajian, co-founder of virtual world Dizzywood … [Read more...]
Jan. 27, 2009 Albert Einstein said,“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” At She’s Geeky last year, I met women who can give that hope for humanity back, and they have the technological chops to do it. As I wrote about the UNconference before AND after She's Geeky last year, I was duly impressed by the exciting presence of so many … [Read more...]
Program for the Future Conference: Double-click to enlarge Eileen Clegg's visual insights into the years beginning with Doug Engelbart's birth in 1925 and emerging through his 'mother of all demos' in 1968 as we time travel to track the evolution and convergence of collective intelligence via human and techno systems... Where have we been, where are we going, what will this … [Read more...]
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