Dev Patnaik is the founder of Jump Associates, a San Mateo firm that specializes in discovering new opportunities for growth. Jump is all about innovation. It’s the place other companies…

One of the most ambitious efforts to build a new newsroom for a college newspaper just happens to be in my backyard in Palo Alto. The Stanford Daily is busy raising $3.8 million to construct its own building in the heart…

I spent last week at the Online News Association Conference, courtesy of our sponsors, the Knight Foundation. I came away with a greater sense of urgency about this project and what we need to accomplish.

I continue to be fascinated by the reactions people have to Second Life. Perhaps it’s just because I’m paying more attention now that part of our project will touch on this virtual world.

I just walked out of a big keynote session that Rob Curley gave at the College Media Convention. Curley’s big fancy title is vice president of product development for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. Unofficially, he’s considered the big guru on all things related to digital…

I had a chance last month to visit Duke for a day and convene the first meeting of our advisory team. It was great to just get folks together in the room to meet, in many cases for the first time. Unforunately, many of the media groups on campus have limited or no working…