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Articles are Antiquated 14 Oct 2011 | 07:55 am
I was reading the Wizard of the East, Jeff Jarvis, questioning the need for articles in the near future www.buzzmachine.com/2011/05/28/the-article-as-luxury-or-byproduct/. Geoff and I have been convi...
“Community” doesn’t matter 14 Oct 2011 | 07:54 am
The way most tech entrepreneurs emphasize the word is disingenuous and possibly misleading for other startups. For example, I hear people say that users comment or participate because of a sense of c...
Data Sphere: Here is what people mean by “cookie cutter” 14 Oct 2011 | 07:52 am
Take a good look at these screenshots from 2 different neighborhoods – nay cities – in the Sacramento region. Same layout? Check. But also . . . Same content. Now read this quote from Gary Cowan of D...
Hey Google! Time to fix Google Apps once and for all 14 Oct 2011 | 07:45 am
Maybe enterprise solutions just aren’t that important inside the googleplex these days, but they ought to be. Why? Because cloud-based enterprise software is not just for big corporations, it’s for p...
Letter to the FCC 12 Oct 2011 | 05:37 pm
The Hon. Julius Genachowski Chairman Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 Dear Chairman Genachowski: October 3, 2011 The undersigned organizations are in...
Patch: Scared Yet? 30 Sep 2010 | 09:05 am
This morning I read a dire warning for independent online local websites: Hyper Local Purists Steamrolled By Patch?. The headline is a little misleading as Mel has wider concerns than Patch. Mostly it...
NYT out of whack 9 Jun 2010 | 11:31 am
I’ve been holding back on posting, but I’m ready now – and I won’t be pulling punches. Blogs around the web (Wired, Gizmodo, Techdirt, TechCrunch) have reported that The New York Times pressured Appl...
Marketplaces 2010 23 Mar 2010 | 10:36 am
I’m sitting here at a huge and influential conference in San Diego, Marketplaces 2010 and all of a sudden I see a slide with the SLOAN logo. And then I see MyFolsom.com. And then I see Living in Urban...
Video! 19 Feb 2010 | 06:20 pm
Sorry for the wait everyone. Our video of the February 2010 SLOAN event is now online. The video is 26 minutes long so you might want to sit down. I will post a shorter edit a little later. Sacrament...
Welcome to SLOAN! 2 Feb 2010 | 05:06 pm
Welcome to SLOAN! We are so excited to bring SLOAN to the Sacramento area. Our passion is to build a healthy media ecosystem in Sacramento. We have already brought together premier independent, local...
