Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Transforming Information Into Knowledge
When I moved to New York City, my hobby was attending events and panel discussions. Afterwards, I would write-up observations.
I haven’t blogged very often since I got married, had kids, and moved to the suburbs. I continued my writing by posting on social media and working with The New Stack.
I attended a rather worthwhile networking event organized by mediabistro.com and BtoB Magazine. The venue, Light, was upscale and they even served some hors d’oeuvres. I am happy to report that mediabistro.com still organizes some of the best free networking events in New York City. […]
The panel sponsored by National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University. The panelists were Michael Azerrand of emusic.com, Amy Phillips, Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio, Knox Robinson of The Fader, Anthony DeCurtis of Rolling Stone and Tracks, and Brandon Wall of prefix magazine. […]
Heeb and Storahtelling teamed up to throw a great Purim party at Club Rare in New York’s Meat Market. Several hundred Jews came to this masquerade party based on the Madonna theme of “Esther Don’t Preach”. Overall, I bet there were at least 20 people […]
Before the presentation, I challenged several of the people sitting around the table by saying Paul Wolfowitz might not be a bad choice for the World Bank presidency. I got a series of responses that reminded me that the New School had been the last […]
I usually don’t write about my NYC nightlife, but I think this party was worthy of an entry. I went to a circus at Rothko on the Lower East Side. It was a special Bloody Valentine Party. Anything to shock, eh? I ended up watching […]
Microsoft’s CIO Ron Markezich spoke to about 100 people at an event sponsored by the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce. Markezich doesn’t sell software. Instead, he implements it, in addition to telecom and IT hardware, at Microsoft itself. It was extremely interesting hearing how Microsoft’s IT […]
I watched this panel on tv. Wonkette.com, instapundit.com, andrewsullivan.com and Joe Trippi spoke to Charlie Rose. Joe Trippi talked about context and podcasting. Wonkette talked about the immediacy of reader commentary. Instapundit suggested that major newspapers use blog commenters as de-facto assistant editors and fact-checkers. […]
Speakers at “From Confrontation to Collaboration”, a panel sponsored by the NYU Urban Planning Student Association and the New York Chapter of the American Planning Association, talked about partnerships between community organizations, developers and the government. They told stories about the terrible ’80s and successes […]
If you’re culturally Jewish but not religious, then a Heeb party is for you. If you want to be in a packed basement with lots of horny Jewish girls, then a Heeb party is for you. And, if you want to listen to decent music […]
I just love Eyebeam. If I wanted to start a collective work space, I would probably model it off of Eyebeam. I attended their Holiday Hackshop and learned to knit. That’s right, activists opposed to sweatshop labor were teaching people how to knit as a […]
Literary bloggers are like other bloggers in many ways, but are different because many were already writing their commentary before blogging technology became prevalant and because their writings are a little more snarky and negative just by the very nature of writing book reviews.
With a red Economist banner on the right and a blue Nation banner on the left, a packed auditorium heard a debate about the future of outsourcing. Both sides claimed the moral high ground and to be thinking about the best interests of both the […]