A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of watching a talk by Slavoj Žižek. He’s kind of like the Werner Herzog of continental philosophy (a Laconian to be exact) and also happens to be a professor at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana, and at the European Graduate School. Zizek gave his talk at [...]
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Online video can be a lot of different things. But when it comes to video blogging, it doesn’t matter if it’s a complicated, high production affair. After all, video blogging is still just blogging. To a degree, it’s supposed to be a bit gritty and straight to the point. That being said, what makes or [...]
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Update: BookOven came out of private alpha a couple hours after this was posted. Meet Hugh McGuire. Hugh is a lot of things. He founded Librivox, the largest online catalogue of audio-books. He also co-founder BookOven, an online community where writers can support one another by editing each others work and providing feedback. He’s also [...]
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This is a clip of Nokia’s Brett Murray (from their Technology Inside Promotions Team) talking about Indoor Positioning, which is a technology that picks up where GPS lets off: indoors. It can be used to both better target mobile users with relevant advertising, as well as help those users figure out where they are within [...]
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I needed some help feeling better about the economy this morning, so I decided to revisit this clip I shot of Chris Brogan back in February at Podcamp Toronto 2009. This is Chris segwaying into his session by talking about unemployment projections and how the economy is affecting oil, journalism, and IT. Of course , [...]
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