This was the second time I saw the movie “Guru”. Many people say, its on the life of famous industrialist Dhirubhai Ambani. Despite the official denial from the director-producers’ front I must say its the cinema that I enjoyed...

Dryden, New York is a small town near Ithaca. Four years ago, local resident Simon St. Laurent began chronicling the civic life of the town on a blog called Living in Dryden. In a 2004 profile the Ithaca Journal wrote: St. Laurent can be seen,...

From time to time I like to dabble in social network analysis. Now that Facebook has opened itself up to programmatic access, I thought I’d do some spelunking to see what I could learn. Here are a couple of questions I’d like to answer...

Today Lauren Weinstein draws attention to “a fascinating and apparently singular page on Google that you’ve probably never seen.” He’s right, I hadn’t, and apparently not many others have either. The page,...

It was a great pleasure to speak with John Willinsky for this week’s ITConversations show. We refer to another podcast I mentioned here. As much as I hope people will listen to this week’s show, I think it’s even more important to...

Although my own weekly podcast appears on the ITConversations channel of the Gigavox network, lately I find myself listening more often to our sister channel, Social Innovation Conversations. And I’ve started to wonder: Why are these two...

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks for folks who care about RESTful web services. Dare Obasanjo kicked things off with a couple of items about the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) and Google’s use of it for its GData project. Tim...

The audio accompaniment for yesterday’s exercise hour was Tom Raftery’s interview with Brad Abrams, group program manager for Silverlight. I mention it for three reasons. First, it’s a nice comprehensive overview of the history...

While I’m back on the topic of screencasting, I’ve been meaning to mention another important use of the medium. Recently a colleague reported severe trouble trying to present demos that rely on a live connection to the Internet. My...

I’ll be in Redmond for part of next week and, although my first effort to have a Crossroads Mall meetup got sidetracked, I’d like to try again. To keep things simple: I’ll just be there this Thursday night, the 21st, at around...