Monthly Archives: June 2008

I just finished A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America by Virginia’s U.S. Senator, Jim Webb. It’s an eloquent extended essay on America that helped me understand why Webb leads the current Intrade prediction market’s pick for … Continue reading →

“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one,” H. L. Mencken famously said. That truism has taken another giant step backwards into history, with Amazon’s Digital Text Platform. With DTP, you can self-publish at the Kindle Store … Continue reading →

At today’s Social Media Breakfast 8 hosted by Bryan Person and Bob Collins, one of the great presentations was by Rob Lane, cofounder and CEO of Overlay.tv . Rob’s demonstration reminded me of a talk I heard by Alex Lindsay … Continue reading →

Someone named Jay Wyatt emailed this graphic to me, saying “Feel free to use this as you like.” I must say that the further I get into Web’s latest book, A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America, … Continue reading →

Last night I noticed something about the way I read books on the Kindle. Because I can so easily switch among books, it’s as if I am reading a composite book, a mashup of three books at once. This creates … Continue reading →

I always believed that the way Barack Obama ran his campaign would be his best demonstration of leadership ability, offsetting the fact that his resume otherwise does not contain any governerships, CEO positions, or military command. By now, the results … Continue reading →

Hillary Rodham Clinton and William H. Seward–two U.S. Senators, two nominations that incredibly went to rivals not long removed from the Illinois state legislature. On the day Hillary is scheduled to concede to Barack Obama at noon, I am struck … Continue reading →

This morning in Boston I attended a breakfast conversation titled “The New Paradigm of Social Movements” at the offices of The Philanthropic Initiative, facilitated by TPI founder Peter Karoff, author of The World We Want. It was a high-energy, thoughtful … Continue reading →