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This is an interesting piece from Forbes.

Mark Goffman, one of the writers for the TV show the West Wing will be speaking at a PRI event tonight. It will be fun to hear how real world events impact the show. The event is sold out already,

In yet another example of how quickly the communications industry is changing, SBC announced it will acquire AT&T for $16 billion. Back in 1997, FCC Chair Reed Hundt said that such a deal was unthinkable, but of course at that

I almost can’t believe it, but I just watched a newscast that reported San Francisco has just banned smoking in public parks — that’s *outdoors* folks. Wow — critics of the indoor smoking ban were right that it wouldn’t stop

Well, I finally broke down and watched Fahrenheit 9/11. Ever since watching the obnoxious film “Roger and Me,” I’ve been repulsed by Michael Moore, so I really didn’t want to see his latest. I figured it would just be more

I watched the speech and then read it, so here’s my initial reaction. I didn’t think Bush delivered the speech with as much passion as he has at other times. Perhaps he was trying to be more “statesman-like” or something.

Today I read a sad and touching story on homelessness in San Francisco magazine. The writer, Kevin Berger, described how he set out to produce a story on homelessness, but wound up making a friend. The homeless man that Berger

Here’s a good article by Tim Cavanaugh on Gavin Newsom’s silly ideas about free WiFi.

I have no idea if this photo’s been altered at all, but it and this story are hilarious!

One of the speakers at ACC04 is Cory Ondrejka, VP of Product Development for Linden Lab, creators of Second Life. Since I’m introducing him, I decided to log on at Second Life and try out the game. I *love* it.

This is one of the best conferences of the entire year, and not just because I’m emceeing. Anyone who’s interested in tech and the future needs to be here.

If I ever get some free time to play a game (maybe over Christmas…), I’m going to try one of these. What a cool company.

Someone posted to Craig’s List asking for a fight. Classic.

With all the chattering about Democrats who want to move to Canada because their team lost, it didn’t take long for someone to create a new map. You can compare it to the actual red and blue states.

That’s right, my mother (and my liberal hairdresser) both told me before the election they thought Bush should win, and of course, he did. Talking with people outside of the regular political machines tends to be a really good way

Yes, that’s right, Gavin Newsom wants to put government in control of all San Franciscan’s wireless service. On Thursday, he said “We will not stop until every San Franciscan has access to free wireless Internet service.” I wonder if he’s

Fahrenheit 911 is considered a propaganda film by people on both the left and right, but it still had a huge impact on a number of people. Celsius41.11 is the right’s answer to Moore’s movie.

Just when you thought you only had a choice between getting an Aibo cat or a real one that makes you sneeze, along comes science to the rescue. Allerca is a company that’s working to create the world’s first hypoallergenic

The FCC has approved the merger, subject to some divestiture requirements. Here’s a Computerworld story on it.

CompTIA interviewed both Presidential candidates on tech issues and the record is here. They don’t seem all that different from each other (mainly b/c Kerry is so vague it’s hard to tell what his positions are on some issues). On