A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about content discovery online, and how the social web effectively turns the people that you’re connected to into your very own personal curators. I wrote that “the social web enables users to iterate through a group of curators who provide relevant…

I’m inspired by Brad Burnham’s post about the Protect IP Act that is about to go to the US Senate for its first vote. Brad and fifty-three other venture capitalists, representing forty firms, rightly recognized the threat that this Act poses to innovation and economic growth…

I just finished Stephen Johnson’s “Where Good Ideas Come From.” Recommended to me by a few people independently, it quickly rose to the top of my reading list. At just a few hundred pages (depending on your preferred ebook font size), it’s fast read, and I recommend it to anyone who…

After reading Stephen Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From (which you should buy and read, now), I was inspired to take his advice and “write everything down.” Here’s my first try.

Inspired by Tony Haile’s “2010 in Books,” I thought I’d take a look through my Amazon Kindle purchase history and put together a short post on the books that I read in 2011. I found the retrospective useful, and hopefully my comments and…

Today, I was lucky enough to attend the second day of sessions at Personal Democracy Forum. I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into. As a social web / identity junkie, I was excited to see Vivek Kundra, Jay Rosen, Dan Gillmor, and Doc Searls. I hadn’t heard of many…

I spent the past two weeks on vacation, eating delicious food, relaxing in the sun, and enjoying my favorite band. I also managed to make my way through two books that came highly recommended from colleagues at TheLadders: Delivering Happiness and The Intelligent Entrepreneur.

This past week, Facebook released a series of changes to the way it manages sharing and privacy controls. You can read more about them here.

The short story is that they are giving their users finer control over their sharing and how others…