I got to play with a Nokia N8 for a couple weeks as long as I agreed to make a video with it. So I shot this during a blizzard in Montreal. At 48 seconds, I almost get hit by a car. Somehow, though, both me and the Nokia N8 made it out alive.
Meet James Whatley (@whatleydude), an old friend that I met in Helsinki in 2008. James is from the UK and we finally got a chance to hang out again last week in Toronto during the Nokia N97minitour. James and I sat down to chat about life, growing up, heroes, love, and regrets.
Slavoj Žižek is a professor at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana, and at the European Graduate School. All you need to know, though, is that he's like the Werner Herzog of continental philosophy. I got to see Zizek speak at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, a conference where academics and clergy from all faiths and countries converge to discuss God and the meaning of life. Zizek was part of a session on "The Death of God." Some of the ground that Zizek covered ...
Meet @oggy. We work together at NVI, we’re both atSMX East 2009 in NYC this week, and he's on a panel called Analytics for Social Media. I thought I'd ask him what he thinks about quantifying social media.
I need your help. I'm trying to figure out what Donald Draper would blog. I'm trying to figure out whether he'd blog at all. Do you have any input?
The interwebs are full of haters. It disgust me because if they knew so much, they'd be 'doing' instead of hating. Well, this is what I have to say about the latest round of haters that have crept up recently.
After over a year, I have decided that it's time for me to do something else. Today was my last day at work, and my colleagues were kind enough to make sure that it got off to a good start.
Geoff Livingston is a PR and social media guy who has a highly trafficked Blog, The Buzz Bin, is the owner of his own PR agency (which was acquired by CRT/Tanaka) and the author of Now Is Gone, a book on new media and public relations.
This is the second part of an interview with Hugh McGuire, the founder of Librivox, co-founder of BookOven.com, and all around new media guy. In the last interview we talked business, and in this one, we get personal. Hugh tells us how books have always been important to him, lets on that he's always wanted to be a writer, and tells us who his favorite authors are.
This is an interview with Hugh McGuire, the founder of Librivox (the largest online catalogue of audio-books), co-founder of the online writers' community BookOven, and podcaster. In this clip, Hugh discusses how BookOven was conceived and how he sees the world of books evolving for the digital age.