• I’ve been a longtime fan of John Cook and Todd Bishop, as they left their steady print journalism jobs to launch TechFlash.com a couple of years ago.  Now they’ve truly gone independent, cutting their ties to the Puget Sound Business Journal to create GeekWire.  I was honored to be their inaugural podcast (MP3 here). We…

  • As Conan O’Brien looked out at the capacity crowd for the worldwide premiere of the documentary “Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop,” he couldn’t help himself. “A lot of hipsters here,” he told the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival crowd (see 8:02 in the YouTube player below). “Could meet a guy in a fedora. With an iPad…

  • Seattle Voices: Hanson Hosein on storytelling a…, posted with vodpod

  • 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…