I spent much of last fall at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government as a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy. While there, I researched issues related to journalism, trust and credibility – and in particular what role emerging social media might play in add...

Investors hoping for a little extra money - and small startups hoping for a lot - are going to need to find someone or something other than Google to provide it.  The search giant's CEO said yesterday that he intends to let his company's checkbook collect a little dust.  You'll no doubt re...

A year later, a Microsoft and Yahoo assault on Google still can’t be ruled out. Steve Ballmer says he’s still interested, and even though Yahoo’s new chief won’t kiss and tell, her apparent lack of confidence in her company is telling enough. And what does Google CEO Eric Sch...

Eric Schmidt is an old dude who just doesn't get Twitter. That groupthink consensus emerged after the Google CEO dismissed the fast-growing messaging service at a conference. But he missed the real critique Twitter deserves. That's the problem with Twitter. Everyone feels like they have to be an exp...

Senate staffers working on confirmations are looking hard into the backgrounds of President-elect Barack Obama's nominees, poring over their past writings and speeches searching for controversial statements and positions....

Senate staffers working on confirmations are looking hard into the backgrounds of President-elect Barack Obama 's nominees, poring over their past writings and speeches searching for controversial statements and positions....

It's Google's presidency. We're just watching it. Six Google executives, including CEO Eric Schmidt and cofounder Larry Page, have donated $25,000 apiece to fund President Barack Obama's swearing-in party. Taken as a whole, the Googlers' cash is one of the largest corporate donations to Obama's inau...

Yesterday the Newsweek magazine introduced its traditional list of top 50 most influential and powerful people in the world. Of course the majority of the people on the list are politicians with the US presidential elections determining how the list looks like a lot. First of all, very quickly Barac...

Image via Wikipedia The Online Information Paradox - DaniWeb TechTreasures by Ron Miller Yesterday, Seth Godin wrote a post in his blog called, Warning: The Internet is almost full. It's not of course, and he had is his tongue planted firmly in his cheek, but he brought up the very serious idea of i...

It may be time to put a cork in Silicon Valley's most famous law firm. Wilson Sonsini is no longer celebrating its new attorneys with champagne. That trimmed perk is just the beginning of its woes. Above the Law notes that Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has skipped the annual tradition of awarding...