Dylan’s Desk: What you need to do to get more women at your conference — or company
Last year, Courtney Stanton organized a conference for game developers whose 12-person speaker roster was half women, and half men. And she […]
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January 2013
Field Notes
It is a felony to take more than 3 copies of our newspaper
Felony, originally uploaded by dtweney. This is on the box for the Daily News, one of San Mateo’s free newspapers.
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Swipp hopes to make your status updates into collective, global knowledge
Swipp, a new “social intelligence platform,” is trying to bridge the gap between evanescent, useless social data (I ate a
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Once king of enterprise software, Lotus Notes is dragging IBM down
Published on VentureBeat When IBM bought Lotus for $3.5 billion in 1995, it looked as though the venerable computing giant
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We need more people like Aaron Swartz
Here is my latest column on VentureBeat: We need more people like Aaron Swartz. I spent much of the past
Field Notes
The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s “Crime” « Unhandled Exception
“In short, Aaron Swartz was not the super hacker breathlessly described in the Government’s indictment and forensic reports, and his
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Dylan’s Desk: CES still matters, even if you hate it
After a two-week holiday break, my VentureBeat column is back. This week: why CES still matters. Coincidentally, this morning NPR
Poems
Small stones #4-7
My son asks me to time him, then bolts down the sidewalk and out of sight between two strangers. He
Poems
Small stone #3
Jupiter shines, a pale yellow beacon, almost directly overhead. In the distance, the sound of freeway traffic, like surf.