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  • Is there such thing as too much technology?

    Here’s the video from the compelling panel that I hosted at the Microsoft Imagine Marketing Leadership Summit.  Panelists included Lili Cheng from Microsoft FUSE Labs, NYU’s Dalton Conley (author of Elsewhere, USA) and cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito.  Of course we agreed that it wasn’t as bad as the somewhat polemic session title indicated, “It’s not…

  • Light the beacons! Nathan Myhrvold, social capital and Four Peaks

    Even as we’re lead to believe that “analog” interaction faces extinction in the digital age, we still need to recognize that all the Facebook “likes” in the world in themselves, will not bring down a repressive government (Egypt, Tunisia).  You often need to take physical, non-virtual action to really get things done. It’s why I’ll…

  • Guest Post: “Meaning” — what Ann Hedreen thought of my SALu lecture

    [Writer Ann Hedreen attended my SALu Storyteller Uprising lecture on February 9th, and contacted me later to share her thoughts about the lecture, posted originally to her Restless Nest blog.  Here’s what Ann wrote:] Scrawled in fat black Sharpie script on the inside door of a blue bathroom stall at Kane Hall on the University…

  • A new model for storytelling: transmedia

    Terrific insights on Media Space TV from transmedia storytelling (a.k.a. “multiplatform storytelling”) guru Brent Friedman, the importance of gaming, and how the Pacific Northwest has the right technological infrastructure to support this form of narrative. Also watch the Four Peaks salon that followed on net neutrality here.