During rough economic times, conferences are often hit particularly hard. People don’t have the funds to travel, vendors cut back on their displays, yet the information at conferences remain as valuable as ever, if not more so. Engage! Expo is no different. I’ve run into some old friends at the ...

And what about the best minds of our generation? They aren’t doing anything as romantic as Ginsburg’s friends, searching the angry gutter for a fix. No, some have been searching for ways to use technology to engage people in politics or non-profits. Others ride the subways joining blank faces be...

A few days ago, Joe Cascio wrote a blog piece about his take on bloggers and journalists. He talks about Dan Schorr’s segment on Weekend Edition on NPR last weekend and “how it’s disturbing to him [Mr. Schorr] that anyone can ‘publish’ things on the internet and no editor or staff fact-che...

Every day bloggers visit other blogs and drop their ‘EntreCard’ on the blog. At the end of every month, many of those same bloggers put up blog posts about the people that have dropped the most cards on them. I’ve written similar posts in the past. However, I thought it would be interesting to...

It has been another week preoccupied with computer programming, although I did get a chance to participate in some social media activities this week, as well as get through at least a little bit of my email. It started off with a few messages that I sent out from the Woodbridge Board of Education me...

It has been an emotionally draining day. Friends are off skiing or swimming for February vacation while I’m putting in long hours on a programming project. I continue to read about the ups and downs of a friend who has recently been diagnosed with Leukemia. Then, yesterday, I learned that Irv Stol...

Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground Underlying the debate about deficit mitigation, budgets and stimulus packages is the question, what do we value. One concern is that we all want to be free to spend our hard earned money the way we want, and not the way some bureaucrat in Hartford or Wa...

Over the past few days, the two most popular posts on my blog have been 25 things about me...tagged and Building a Twitter Status Cloud, so I decided to mash the two of them up. My first idea was to take the 25 things that my various friends have written, code them for categories, and do some sort o...

It was with some reservation that I attended an Organizing for America event to discuss President Obama's Economic Recovery Plan. A week or so ago, Zephyr Teachout wrote Organizing for America Will, and Should, Fail which raised some very important issues about the direction Organizing for America n...

Over on a mailing list of Second Life educators, there is another long discussion about Digital Natives. It actually started off with a great discussion, asking for ‘OLD digital natives’ to come forward and identify themselves. The discussion has been fascinating as digital natives older than my...