For all things Spot.Us - I will quickly remind folks that the project has its own blog where we are updating regularly. I will update here on occasion but will still keep this as my personal blog. This post will be a little on the academic side - but it's something that has been formulating in my he...

Image via CrunchBase I don’t ever like to see anyone fail, but I suppose success in the Digital Age has created a new set of Rules ! I have found to date a few solid efforts in the application category which I use !  Zemanta Twitter Adaptive Blue Glue Mac Journal and Evernote ! Louis Gray as ...

I’ve just finished reading Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion , by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis, and it’s another title worth adding to your tech policy reading list. The authors survey a broad swath of tech policy territory — p...

It would be great if this is the time to solve our problems at the cause, and not get lost dealing with the effects. I think the first things President Obama could do to help us fix our economy are: empower the information age with an upgrade in broadband access and speed (the US is 15th for broadba...

Linked In is evolving big time with the integration of social networking functionality of a new sort and with the extension of its services to cover company profiles, something I consider awesome. A few months back I wrote a piece stating why I did not believe in Facebook for business and how a comb...

I admit it. All this Ashley Dupre (or whichever alias you prefer) coverage is a bit on the seedier side of news. But she is now officially a part of American history that will never go away, so she, for the historical record, must be documented so that in a hundred years, history students look back ...