[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] India’s quest to create a $10 laptop is getting a lot of press this week. Fast Company notes that the proposed design will have 2 GB of RAM, wired Ethernet, and Wi-Fi and probably will run Linux. The laptop initiative is part of India’s National Missio...

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Abusing Social Media - iphone applications - web 2.0 | Fast Company - Article talking about how companies can make themselves look stupid using social media. Some points I agree, others I don't. I think comcasts twitter participation has been a positive thing. Same can be said for starbucks. Cos...

We had a nice mention in this FastCompany article by Chris Dannen: People-Powered Internet Grows Up Reddit is a user-generated clearinghouse for "what's new online." Like its rival, Digg.com, the site presents visitors with a numbered list of linked headlines that they can either vote up or down, d...

Robert posted an exhaustive list of videos from this week on his blog. I'll have to get around to doing the same later on, as well as posting photos and videos I took from my point of view during the week, including some great ones by Robert's son, Patrick Scoble, who grabbed my camera during some o...

So a few months ago, I talked to Robert Scoble about why today's Web 2.0 world doesn't "get" Washington. 463's Sean Garrett totally nailed it in a blog post a few months ago, too, right around when I went into Radio Silence (more on that below). Robert said he wanted to learn more about the issue...

Absolutely! I’ve written on numerous occasions in the past how important political brands are. Check out this recent Fast Company article, which talks about how big a brand Obama is and how quickly he has shaped it in a span of a few years. And, so are the other political candidates’ bra...

Matt Craven at the Blog Herald has posted a review of my recent mud wrestling with 1938 Media's Loren Feldman, saying Loren utsmarted me. Feldman, who seems to be building a career on making fun of prominent people in social media, most recently focused on me with the same determination as a dog wit...

I have been having a ball running all over the place with a camera speaking to people about how social media is impacting business & culture for the past few weeks. But, like anyone in a start up situation, I've learned there are more moving parts than I had anticipated. One of them is learning how ...

                                    [Detroit River looking at Canada. Photo by Shel] The guy next to me on the flight to Detroit wanted to know why I was headed to his hometown. I told ...