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Jay Donovan
May 11th, 2010

iCitizen 2010 Symposium: Recap

So, one week later, I was going to recap the iCitizen Symposium by highlighting all the presentations that took place, but I came to the conclusion that I couldn’t possibly do a better job documenting the event than the event blog did all by itself. Captured by Resource Interactive Creative Director Karen Scholl (@kscholl), this account is a good representation of the how things went down… → Read More

Jay Donovan
May 5th, 2010

iCitizen Symposium 2010: The Real-Time Web

I’ve been at the iCitizen Symposium 2010, here in beautiful Columbus OH, since bright and early this morning. I have been talking to people and scanning QR codes (I’ll come back to that). The main theme of this event surrounds the “real-time web” and the speed with which its underbelly is changing the way people behave—socially, mobile-ly and behaviorally. These are concepts with… → Read More

Steve Gillmor
January 19th, 2009

Too Much of Nothing

I’ve been reading an interesting quasi-history of the Basement Tapes, a series of recordings produced in a garage in Woodstock, New York in 1967 by Bob Dylan and the group that soon came to be known as The Band. It’s quasi-history because of the participants; Dylan won’t comment, Richard Manuel and Rick Danko are dead, and Levon Helm only showed up for the last few sessions at… → Read More