Scripting News

Sat, 08 May 2004 23:28:46 GMT

NY Times profile of Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.Com.

Sat, 08 May 2004 20:48:45 GMT

Rebecca MacKinnon offers a user's perspective on Reuters' video RSS feeds. "It's already having an impact on how I follow news events."

Sat, 08 May 2004 19:32:08 GMT

I'm doing a video chat with Adam Curry in Belgium. He's on a Mac using iChat, I'm on Windows XP using AIM. It's three-quarters working, but the last quarter is very vexing. Can you help with the remaining connection?

Sat, 08 May 2004 16:43:42 GMT

Dan Gillmor: "We are risking the part of being American that is so attractive here and around the world: the sense that we paid attention to human rights and meant it."

Sat, 08 May 2004 15:33:24 GMT

Joi Ito: "I think software patents are a bad American idea."

Sat, 08 May 2004 11:30:28 GMT

I was pretty sure Marc Canter would understand yesterday's post about sponsors, speakers, panels and audiences. And he explains, eloquently and diplomatically, why he agrees. "There's no way I'm getting on a plane to listen to Clay again unless we can discuss in public his issues." Exactly. You assemble this fantastic group of really smart people, and tell them they can't discuss. What a waste. Much better to put the minds to use. And all because a few lazy people don't want to be challenged. I hope the promoters of Supernova and Web 2.0 use the ideas outlined in the Howto for BloggerCon II. Ask people who were there, it really works, you just have to believe that you've got the smartest and best people coming to your conference, and then recruit reporters and professors to lead discussions. More here.