http://www.elatable.com/blog Thoughts on technology (and not) from Bradley Horowitz Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:46:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just came to know (via a campus poster) that Amy Goodman is speaking at Google tomorrow via the Authors @ Google series. Noam Chomsky coming later in the month. The group sponsoring this series is doing a fantastic job of bringing compelling, provocative speakers. What a perk! And the ... http://www.elatable.com/blog/2008/04/15/amy-goodman-at-google-tomorrow/ I'm playing around with Grand Central, and am really impressed with the power of this service. (Not to mention impressed with the team... What a talented bunch of folks!) I've added a "Call me" tab to this blog... I'd love to hear from you. Give me a ... http://www.elatable.com/blog/2008/03/24/call-me/ In an effort to remove physical clutter around my house between gigs, I bought a cool device: the Pinnacle Video Transfer unit. The device is cheap ($129), accessible (bought mine at Best Buy) and works exactly as advertised. One of the things I ripped was my old VHS ... http://www.elatable.com/blog/2008/03/03/video-of-martin-friedmann/ Leaving Yahoo. Yes, it's true. I've left Yahoo. It was somewhat overwhelming sifting through the barrage of reactions over the last 48 hours: "Thanks for all you've done", "How could you?!", "Congrats!", etc. It's fascinating to watch people react. I've been taking it all in. I want to use ... http://www.elatable.com/blog/2008/02/14/on-leaving-yahoo/ live is live http://www.elatable.com/blog/2008/02/07/live-is-live/ Richard Dawkins & Craig Venter Originally uploaded by bradley23 I'm at the DLD Conference in Munich. This is my first time at DLD (though I've been to Munich many times for other conferences and personal visits. It's a city that I love.) The ... http://www.elatable.com/blog/2008/01/21/dld-conference/ Scott and Chad crosspost and tell the tale: Scott's story & Chad's story. I'm honored to work with these guys. Two of the classiest individuals I've had the pleasure to know. Scott, you'll be missed... and thanks for everything from the bottom of my heart. http://www.elatable.com/blog/2007/12/17/gatz-hands-the-baton-to-dickerson/ As reported by Battelle, we just launched the Yahoo Plugin for WordPress. This blog, elatable.com, runs on WordPress. The plugin is very cool. You simply author the post as you normally would. You click a 'lil button that says "Review this Post"... and all kinds of valuable ... http://www.elatable.com/blog/2007/12/13/yahoo-plugin-for-wordpress/ I recently attended a fantastic, inspiring event... The Open Government Working Group hosted by OReilly Media in Sebastopol... I blogged about it on the Next* blog... http://www.elatable.com/blog/2007/12/12/open-data-is-good-for-democracy/ Gordon Luk has a really interesting post that I'll use as a launching pad to clarify a point I often make in public lectures... In the interest of saving you a click, see below. This reminded me of Umair's article "Why Yahoo Didn't Build MySpace..." which basically suggests that ... http://www.elatable.com/blog/2007/12/02/me-v-ze-frank-not-so-much/