App is the new Web. Yeah, but whose app?
The notion of information wanting to be free changes depending on how you define “free.” Free as in “no cost,” or free as in “no boundaries?”
Video: So now you’ve overthrown the tyranny of reporters. Now what?
Watch me at IgniteCorvallis II talking about some ideas for local news and why I think the best time to be a journalist is right now.
Get a good deal? Let’s share the details
What if everyone who negotiates with companies posted a transcript online for everyone to learn from? What if we post the price we pay for airline tickets and cable service, too? For years, we’ve had to resort to hearsay and rumor about what other customers pay for goods and services in order to have enough information to negotiate anything.
Using twitter for journalism panel
Reread the liveblog of a really great panel on using Twitter for journalism I was invited to sit in on thanks to some sharp folks at the University of Oregon j-school.
Snail mail fail
Here’s yet another another example of why monopolies are no good for customers. My wife and I recently moved and prepared to change our address with the Post Office, a routine practice of getting a form, filling it out, and dropping it in the slot. Or so we thought. I went online and discovered that [...]
Lessons from Leatherman
I had a chance to hear Tim Leatherman, inventor of the multi-tool today (yes there is a guy named Leatherman). He was featured at Speakerlunch a monthly pep-talk for entrepreneurs put on by a local guy in Corvallis. I came away with a couple of entrepreneurial lessons to consider that I wanted to share: Leatherman [...]