Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

So-so BloggerCon III presentation titled Emotional Life during today's walk.  Interesting tidbits like a woman talking about the blog of her father who recently died and the blog being “that which was left“ of her father.  What we leave behind, ... [More]

Another great presentation provided by Doug Kaye at ITConversations to which I've listened and blogged on before.  Doc Searls leading a discussion on making money through blogging.  Here's the ITConversations audio link. &nbs... [More]

Caught the Nov 17 DotNetRocks show today with Mark Pollack, Ted Neward, and Don Box.  Funny the things you take away from a show.  There were many insightful observations made on Java, messaging, the future role of the developer, etcetera, ... [More]

The time-indexing of Rob Scoble's Information Overload Presentation/Discussion from BloggerCon III, the process performed while walking the dogs. 10:38 Dave Winer refusal to allow a vendor discuss the topic at hand and the ensuing group argument. 1... [More]

I'm okay being known as “that nerd who likes to walk his dogs.”  Or maybe more consisely, “nerd dog walker.”  Today I decided to expand my dog walking experience by time-marking interesting ITConversations audio files, like Rob Sco... [More]

At a recent MSDN Events Presentation on MapPoint, Joe Stagner told a story about a $700 GPS device he bought, which due to my bad memory may have cost a bit more than $700, I don't recall exactly. Joe's wife was somewhat, um, uncomfortable with the i... [More]

This is a presentation I will definitely keep on my iPod to listen to from time to time.  The title was Emerging Technology Trends by Ann Winblad, with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners who has backed such companies as Berkeley Systems, Netopia, Net Dy... [More]

Two unmemorable now deleted MP3 presentations today during a grocery run and dog walk outing, both presentations from Pop!Tech 2004.  The first by Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Difference, a book I looked... [More]

Readers familiar with my .Text-based blog know that I arrange posts into traditional categories and (optionally) a collection type I added to .Text called a Series.  Each Series has a Parent Category and today I added the Life with iPod Category... [More]

I enjoyed Richard Florida's presentation on creativity this morning while doing a grocery store run.  I'll never go to the grocery store without my iPod in the future, that's for sure.  The presentation was given at Pop!Tech 2004 and reinforced ... [More]