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William Draton of Ashoka talks about why empathy is the killer app, and why the most important thing we can do to nurture empathy in kids is provide them with time for group play.

William Draton of Ashoka talks about why empathy is the killer app, and why the most important thing we can do to nurture empathy in kids is provide them with time for group play.

This was shot at IndyHall in Philadelphia. The challenge: describe coworking in one word. People had a hard time with this, as coworking can be so many things. Plus I totally ambushed them. Here’s my whack at it: coworking is the phenomenon of ...

A year ago, my brother moved to Rostock, a small city 3 hours north of Berlin. This is my first visit. Had a good time walking around today. Above are some of the sites I saw. High points: some trippy old cranes by the waterfront, some cool wooden ...

Between the art, the architecture, the bridges, hills, and rivers, Pittsburgh is a visual feast. Bon appetit.

Great weekend sailing with Jimmy CraicHead, Magda, and scrcasm, On the way into the mooring we saw what we thought was an original whaling boat—turned out to be of more recent vintage, but still a sweet vessel. If you have talked with me lately, ...

Jill Foster’s DNC Reporting Map Jill Foster’s work/life map: I had a blast visually facilitating a conversation with Jill Foster yesterday. First we had a conversation about her life/work goals and projects. Then we focused in depth on h...

Andy Carvin shot this video of me at NPR’s HQ giving a presentation about using Mogulus for live interactive streaming video. I gave the talk as part of DC Media Makers monthly events. The half of the video shows Andy talking about NPR’...

Big ups to everyone who made Blog Potomac rock.

Kendesi Mohammed and I met at Busboys and Poets a couple of weeks ago and we have been keeping in touch since then. Kendesi is a DC based video producer and club mogul. He helps throw parties and promote up and coming spoken word, rap, music, and ...

Kendesi Mohammed is a DC area owner of an urban marketing firm. He makes it his mission to help local talent build their reputation and commercial presence online. Besides helping up and coming artists, Kendesi helps promoters from DC’s bigge...

To watch the show Come Par-tay with Shireen Mitchell (digitalsista on twitter), the founder and director of Digital Sisters, a DC based nonprofit which promotes and provides tech education and enrichment for women and their children who are tradition...

Below are my rough notes from some of the PodCampNYC 2.0 sessions I participated in. I hope folks who were not able to attend these sessions find these notes helpful. Note: these were created on the fly and niceties of punctuation, grammar and spelling...

Check out the show HERE Join us this Weds, April 9, 9PM EST, as DocPop (AKA Doctor Popular AKA Drown Radio) is drops his new nerdcore album Me Geek Pretty One Day on Jonny’s Par-tay. Tracks like “LolCats” and “Gygax” will...

Join us this Weds, April 9, 9PM EST, as DocPop (AKA Doctor Popular AKA Drown Radio) is drops his new nerdcore album Me Geek Pretty One Day on Jonny’s Par-tay. Tracks like “LolCats” and “Gygax” will send you into a spiral ...

You know. I know I complain about DC from time to time, but stuff like this is priceless, and it wouldn’t happen anywhere else in quite this way. Captured on my Nokia N95 a few ago:

In my 4 days in Austin I met lots of people, performed at the Fray Cafe, absorbed panels, reconnected with people from all over the world, went to scads of parties, got quoted in ValleyWag (OK that’s a dubious one), shot heaps of videos, and ran ...

Steve Garfield interviewed me about my new project, YourEventMap.Com. Always great to see Steve.

So our collective experiment in poetry has wrapped up. In one month of poems we had 14 people contribute Haikus spoken, videoed, and/or written to Utterz.com. A total of 42 individual poems that were listened to a total of 463 times at the time of the ...