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Aspen IdeasFestival4! A Big Ideas Primer
.As regular readers will know, my submissions from many conferences, and especially Aspen Ideas Festival, are intended to summarize the spirit of the conference and to try to give you the essence of...
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Aspen IdeasFestival4! Friedman Forsees an Era of "Out-Greening"
New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman told an overheated capacity crowd at Aspen's Benedict Music Tent the world is "Hot Flat and Crowded" and our country would need to engages soon in a competition to...
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Summit @ Stanford: AlwaysOn glares at online video bonanza
AlwaysOn's Summit at Stanford 2008 began Tuesday evening with the unveiling of the "Global 250" startup companies selected by the media company as up and comers, and a luminary panel on Big Media and...
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ALWAYSON: Quattrone rains on startup 'fast-cash' hopes
Fabled Technology banker Frank Quattrone, reinvigorated after his return to the capital markets in March, didn't take long to dash the hopes of scores of entrepreneurs attending Tony Perkins' AlwaysOn...
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As with four years ago, I'll be filing some observations from a different form of convening than our usual Conferenza fare - the Democratic National Convention in Denver.Our posts here are not geared...
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Quote of the Day from the DNC - preamble [i.e., before the convention is convened]:Heard on line [in queue, not "online" online] at Starbucks at one of the Official Democratic Convention Hotels:"I work...
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TED2009 - 25th Anniversary and first in Long Beach
TED's biggest gathering yet is assembling this morning for a kickoff session which features Microsoft founder Bill Gates discussing philanthropy and dozens of other innovative, cutting-edge efforts to...
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TED2009 - 'Catching Air' with Eureka, world's largest Zeppelin
Among the legendary gift bag shwag and door prizes at TED this year is a very special ride not available over North America for nearly three quarters of a century - a 12-person tour on Airship...
View ArticleStreaming from Demo: Adapting to the New World Order of Transparency
After a planes, trains & automobiles itinerary - including a missed connection in LA, and a one-way rental car - I'm in Palm Desert for Demo. For those of you who aren't here in the warmth of...
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Aspen - Environmental Forum #2
As had many folks delayed by late March whiteout snowstorms, your intrepid correspondent arrived in Aspen Friday morning to glorious sunshine and a few inches of fluffy powder - a fabulous milieu for...
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