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  • 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…

  • Passive storytelling is so 20th century: Elan Lee interview

    An absolutely dreadful YouTube poster frame (weak wrists Hanson!).  But a terrific interview with Elan and his innovative thinking on what comes next for storytelling, and why he had to move to LA to take his vision to the next level. As Elan says, with this new form of storytelling, you no longer have to…

  • Storytelling with Prezi (rather than Death by Powerpoint)

    I give a lot of presentations.  I hate making slides to support them.  I find it tedious, and often more time-consuming than creating the presentation itself.  And I can’t help but thinking that I’m not necessarily enhancing my talk through this extra effort. I’ve heard a lot about Prezi, (Prezi is a flash-based nonlinear storytelling…