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Author: Hanson Hosein

  • Quick, more hands on keyboards!

    Last night, we hosted Open Secrets: An Open Conversation about Wikileaks and Information Transparency in America at the Seattle Public Library.  We saw this event as a community service as we all sought to dispel some of the confusion around a complex issue. I was thrilled to have a local TV station interview me about…

  • I’m thinking enhanced ebook

    Since my dealings with a certain very large academic press are going nowhere fast (actually, nowhere very slowly), I think that it’s time once again to take my content creation fate into my own hands.  It’s what I did with my first Independent America film when we dithered around as finalists with the Corporation for…

  • The secret to Silicon Valley’s success — don’t try this at home

    Does America need the competitive fear of another Sputnik to drive another age of innovation?  Did you know that the “dirty little secret” to Silicon Valley’s success was massive federal funding?  Can this country compete with China if higher education is in crisis?  Watch my provocative interview with University of Washington history professor Margaret O’Mara…

  • Smoke on the (social media) Water

    You gotta love Russian President Dimitry Medvedev (or maybe not!).  He’s the world’s most powerful Deep Purple fan.  And it seems as if he updates his own Twitter account — at least the Russian-language version. Of course, it’s easy to assume that heads of state have teams of handlers who do their direct online communication…