Bloomberg asked for comments on the Dow Jones-Rupert Murdoch saga, and I explained that I had no special insight into the situation. Rupert Murdoch offered a lot of money for Dow Jones, and so far no one else has offered more or come up with a business case for doing so. See: Burkle, Greenspan eye […]
The 800 reporters from the world’s news organizations who descended upon Blacksburg, Va., on April 16, 2007, to cover the shootings of students at Virginia Tech quickly discovered an inconvenient truth. Though remote, Blacksburg was hardly isolated. Students, educators and citizens reported the horrific events first-hand through long-established digital and social networks. The news reached […]
Come to THE festival for innovators and creators of the connected society. Plan on it: Feb. 26-28, 2008, Miami. Registration coming in October. Speaker, sponsor or program ideas? Drop us a note (andrew AT ifocos DOT org). [flv:/video/wemediamiami-an.flv http://ifocos.org/video/video_holder_358.jpg 358 239]
What keeps you up at night? What brilliant ideas or conundrums woud you like to pursue with others who share a passion for innovation in a world connected by digital communications networks? If you could collaborate with smart people representing a variety of professional experiences and perspectives – and put them to work on a […]
Thanks to the members of the iFOCOS Search Working Group who gathered for a kickoff meeting last week (April 24, 2007) in Santa Clara, California (and thanks to Neil Budde and crew at Yahoo! for hosting the meeting). Thanks, as well, to Dabble founder Mary Hodder, who couldn’t make it to the meeting but will […]
Neil Budde is Editor in chief of Yahoo! News, Finance and Sports, and a member of the iFOCOS Search Working Group. I first became intrigued by search technology when I joined Dow Jones in 1987. The visionary leader of Dow Jones Information Services, Bill Dunn, had just convinced the company to purchase a pair of […]
Oren Michels is CEO of Mashery. My closest cousin had cancer surgery yesterday. Based on what we (her close family and friends) have learned, this is the sort of cancer you really, really don’t want. Of course, we don’t know that for sure. After all, when we first got the preliminary diagnosis a couple weeks […]
Unaware of a shooting in a dormitory that left two people dead, Virginia Tech graduate student Jamal al Barghouti headed across campus to meet with his advisor. Nearing Norris Hall he ran into police, guns drawn, rushing inside. As al Barghouti took cover, he pulled out his Nokia camera-phone and started recording. Then came the […]
A couple of recent sketches and "what ifs" by designers offer a counterpoint – or should I say, complement – to our Search Working Group conversation about better search: what about better web sites? Imagine if Amazon depended on customers searching generic search engines to find books and merchandise they wanted to purchase. People do […]
Jeff Given is the IT Operations Manager for the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This post is a pre-cursor to the iFOCOS Search Working Group meeting on April 24th, 2007. About OSTI – OSTI’s mission is to collect and disseminate scientific and technical information (STI) for the U.S. […]