Jerry Michalski
About: Ex tech analyst (for Esther), indie consultant. Big on trusting humans.
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Looking forward to hearing John Taylor Gatto
--Ages ago, Doc introduced me to John Taylor Gatto’s essay The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher (since upgraded to eight lessons, I think). I’ve ...
Work is play; play is work
--Thanks to a tweet from Hugh MacLeod (who tweets a lot), I read JP’s recent post on play, in which he riffs on an insight Michael Schrage had ...
Doing video interviews from Fast’s user conference
--I’m almost done with three days of video interviews from Norwegian enterprise search vendor Fast’s annual user conference. I’m do...
Minding OneWebDay
--Susan Crawford started OneWebDay back in 2006 to help remind us how valuable this Web thingie is. She hoped to inspire us to help it stay special a...
Clay Shirky will be our guest on next Monday’s Yi-Tan call
--Even though the topics of crowdsourcing, collective intelligence, social media and self-organization have been in the air a bunch lately, I have fo...
Just uploaded my Bucharest presentation
--I’m in Bucharest for another IDLO program, showing microfinance experts from the region what social media can do. I uploaded the presentation...
Heading to Chennai for a week
--April and I are off to Chennai to teach in an IDLO program on microfinance. No, I don’t know much about microfinance (April does!), but I do ...
Windows Mobile is one way Microsoft can’t innovate
--I’m not sure how many articles I’ve read over the years that not only say that Windows Mobile sucks, but detail the same reasons why: p...
An iPhone grumble grumble (ok, two)
--What happened to the nifty link between addresses in my Google Calendar and the Google Maps app on my iPhone? Once upon a time, I’d fill in t...
An iPhone grumble grumble (ok, two)
--What happened to the nifty link between addresses in my Google Calendar and the Google Maps app on my iPhone? Once upon a time, I’d fill in t...
An iPhone grumble grumble (ok, two)
--What happened to the nifty link between addresses in my Google Calendar and the Google Maps app on my iPhone? Once upon a time, I’d fill in t...
Interesting sessions on the future of life and the Net
--I’m at the Stanford Legal Futures Conference, which today adopted a FOO Camp approach that, in truth, isn’t that FOOish. Last night the...
Dan Pink’s new career advice — in manga!
--Over the years, Dan Pink has written many pieces that I’ve found truly inspiring, from his 1997 Fast Company cover story Free Agent Nation to...
TED’s been barcamped!
--Heard from Shannon today that a self-organizing alternative to TED, the supremely expensive annual conference, is also taking place in Monterey thi...
Interviews of note
--If you want a quick take on the top interviews here at FastForward, check out: Sandy Kemsley David Weinberger Liv Brahin Jim McGee (to be posted ...
Viz afterthoughts: manifesti, missing tools and what would Leonard do?
--I won’t be able to attend tomorrow’s concluding day at VizThink, so I’m debriefing now, at the end of a fun and brain-filling day...
Bookmarks:
Social Capital Markets Conference at Fort Mason Center (Monday October 13, 2008) - Upcoming
Upcoming Social Capital Markets Conference at Fort Mason Center (Monday October 13, 2008). I'm running the Open Space on the third day. Join in!
Interview With Nassim Nicholas Taleb at Portfolio.com
Taleb has a wonderful, independent mind. Good clarity, little nonsense. I like!
"Earth's News Feed" by Streeter Seidell on CollegeHumor
Way funny.
'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution - MIT News Office
In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn't shine.
Twitter: The hottest Web startup
What exactly is Twitter? And what does its exploding popularity say about the state of the tech industry?
Making Money, the How-To Way
Online instructional videos offer many possibilities!
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