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As usual (and probably as most of you) I started today scanning through my mails and RSS feeds for important and urgent information. By doing that, I stumbled across an article called Hackers and Nigeria vulnerability to cyber terrorism and I started...
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I just visited the 9/11 memorial at the Pentagon today and the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.
Those experiences, among others, have led me to this note.
To everyone else, sorry, this is one of those times I’m going to get into politics. If you...
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No, not a 17-year-old’s sex life. That’s fair game in today’s media world, it seems. No, not abortion or whether or not a candidate considered such or will legislate against choice to use it. That’s fair game too. No, not gun ownership...
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As you know, I am Swiss. Switzerland is known as being one of the most direct democracies in the world. It is not uncommon for us having (or being allowed) to vote every other month as there are a lot of ways to influence what our politicians and/or our...
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Today I visited Larry Lessig. He’s the founder of Creative Commons. A professor of law at Stanford University. And does many other things.
He is one of those guys who is just interesting to talk to. Why? Whip smart and has a view of things that...
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I had no idea that when former Senator John Edwards invited me to come along on his plane back in December of 2006 that I would have had a front-row seat to a sex scandal. John Edwards today admitted he had an affair with Rielle Hunter back in 2006.
I...
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Get in a patriotic mood by listening to our conversation with Zoe Lofgren, the world’s geekiest politician (she’s a Congresswoman from Silicon Valley). This is part of our trip to Washington DC.
“We’re boring,” she said,...
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We shot most of the interviews on our two HD camcorders, but they are a lot harder to work, especially when we had to do five interviews in one day, like we did on Wednesday. We now have a new rule: no more than three interviews on any one day. Five almost...
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On Thursday morning I was at breakfast with Alec Ross. One of the tech guys who advises Barack Obama. He told me to look around the restaurant at the Mayflower hotel in Washington DC. He said I had landed a breakfast in one of the most powerful rooms...
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When I walked into the Speaker of the House’s press room and saw a staff member (Jesse Lee, Senior New Media Advisor for Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi) typing a blog into WordPress, I knew the world had changed (I remarked that I knew that Matt Mullenweg...
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Tonight my son, Rocky (my producer) and I leave SFO to start what is bound to be one of the most interesting weeks in our lives. One thing we’re going to try to do is bring you along whenever possible. Before I get to that, though, I can’t...
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Several months ago Andrew Feinberg, founder of the Capitol Valley.net blog, laid down a challenge to me and other tech bloggers: why don’t we ever come to Washington D.C. to get the politicians’ view of the tech industry?
After all, politicians...
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Today marks the milestone of 4,000 US soldiers killed in the Iraq War . Yesterday (Easter Sunday) marked the 50th anniversary of the Peace symbol : ☮ . The venerable symbol was originally designed in 1958 by Gerald Holtom and was used by the British nuclear...
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I plan to vote Obama after much practical reservation and after having listened to every candidate's speech tonight. Staying up and watching the news 'till 6:20am in London has been a rollercoaster of patriotic emotion and critical analysis. It has been...
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Dan Balz, political reporter for the Washington Post, reports that John Edwards is going to drop out of the US presidential race today. It’s a sad ending to the race for me, since I’ve been an Edwards’ supporter since before he invited...
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Dan Farber, Steve Gillmor, Andrew Keen, Keith Teare and I are watching the presidential YouTube/CNN debates together. Watch us live as we react. Where are we? At Mike Arrington’s house (he’s not here, but Heather, TechCrunch’s CEO is...
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A friend of mine who is famous on the Internet, er, Chris Pirillo, just asked me to support Ron Paul. He’s not the only one. I’ve been hearing a lot of hype about Ron Paul. So, I went to Ron Paul’s Web site and looked at his issues stances...
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You can’t tell by watching my link blog (I very rarely post political stuff there) but I’ve been tracking a bunch of political blogs on both the right and left side of the aisle. I have to admit I like Huffington Post the best. Bob Cesca’s...
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I’m trying not to write much about politics cause that’s not really what we’re all here for. But I do still watch lots of political blogs on both the right and left side of the American fence for insights that I can bring into the corporate...
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Wired Magazine’s Ryan Singel and Kevin Poulsen says that the bloggers got it wrong about Ted Stevens “protecting children” bill. The Wired post ends: “Also the blog world famously claims it’s self-correcting. 27B anxiously...
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Here’s the first two posts that I read this morning:
Kathy Sierra’s love.
Ted Stevens anti-love.
One explains why Kathy Sierra is one of the best bloggers out there. She makes love to us with every post.
The other explains why politicians...
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Hey, Barack, have you met with any bloggers yet? Edwards met with dozens on his first media stops.
Also, has any non-political blogger met with either Hillary or Barack to find out if they are doing their own blog and/or if they are really transparently...
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New York Times reports that John Edwards will announce his candidacy on Thursday. It reports: “Mr. Edwards, who is arguably the most Web-savvy candidate in the ’08 race to date, is using Thursday’s event to try to gin up his supporters via the Internet...
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