January 30, 2009 – 1:36 am
While we were living in Mumbai, I got hooked up in the Bollywood scene and ended up shooting a highly ridiculous video for playback singer Kumar Sanu. The song was finally released this January, and my efforts are embedded below for your viewing pleasure.
Kumar Sanu – Wee Yahee Yahoo video from “Fusion”
January 28, 2009 – 11:21 am
1. Wondering what happened to serial entrepreneur Marc Pincus, founder of Tribe.net — the social network I used a lot post-Friendster and pre-Facebook when I was more in the SF Burning Man world.
2. Found he sold the software and engineering of Tribe to Cisco in 2007, which I vaguely remembered, and started a casual [...]
January 26, 2009 – 11:27 pm
[Nicole Wong, Google's deputy general counsel] stressed the importance for Google of bringing its own open culture to foreign countries while still taking into account local laws, customs and attitudes. “What is the mandate? It’s ‘Be everywhere, get arrested nowhere and thrive in as many places as possible.’”
NYT: 28 Nov 2008
January 11, 2009 – 9:21 pm
Pacific Wild is a conservation organization in Western Canada dedicated to protecting the Great Bear Rainforest region, which constitutes nearly 2/3 of British Columbia’s coastline and coastal forests stretching up toward Alaska. With their new project Pacific Wild Live, they are using innovative panoramic videocameras to document wildlife activity remotely — a great example of [...]
January 10, 2009 – 12:14 pm
Could there be a better headline? The Independent recasts pirates as freedom fighters — including both the arrr-matey kind and the Somali/South China Strait kind.
Misunderstood pirates: Ye Olden Days version
If you became a merchant or navy sailor then [1650-1730] – plucked from the docks of London’s East End, young and hungry – you ended [...]
January 9, 2009 – 11:16 pm
Former Enterprise Partners VC Bill Stensrud bows out of the business, saying for all to hear that the entire venture capital industry has outgrown its usefulness. With charts of dwindling IPOs and the discussion of a lack of new tools, I thought he was telling us that innovation in 2009 was dead, or that the [...]
January 8, 2009 – 12:07 am
This is a great concept – Streetfilms makes short, simple videos about what works and what isn’t working in urban transport. Their three-minute video on “bike corral” parking spaces in Portland turned a concept that might otherwise be buried in a dry urban planning white paper into an illuminating, compelling clip. I find there is [...]
January 2, 2009 – 3:36 pm
The 2009 EDGE annual question is out: “What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?” Given that there are over a hundred responses from the Brockman mafia of brainy third culture types so far, I decided to condense the text of every answer into a Wordle in hopes of one-stop [...]
