Like all influential and complex entrepreneurs, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is many things to many people. But he is, first and foremost, our young century's first Millennial CEO. That's a fact that's been glaringly omitted -- not to mention profoundly misunderstood -- in everything that's been written and reported about Zuckerberg this year. And due [...]
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Mark Zuckerberg — Our First Millennial CEO
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Tagged:Barack Obama, Facebook, Internet, Mark Zuckerberg, Millennials, Technology
TRANSCRIPT: Q&A with Al Gore
This is the transcript of a wide-ranging, two-part, three-hour interview with Al Gore, touching on the impact of technology and the Internet in politics, both in the U.S. and abroad; the state of the mainstream media and the left and right blogosphere; the role of the Web in spreading the facts about global warming, among [...]
Tagged:Activism, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Blogging, Campaigning, Internet, Journalism, Politics, Technology, Television
Technology + Education = Future
Yes, technology is revolutionizing politics, from raising money through online donors to organizing and mobilizing supporters using Facebook and text messaging. Yes, technology is impacting businesses big and small, particularly how they pitch and sell their products in such a fragmented, almost ADD digital marketplace. But most importantly, the onslaught of new technologies -- cell [...]
Tagged:Barack Obama, Blogging, Education, Facebook, Sony BMG, Technology, Text Messaging, The Economist, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube
e-Hail to the Chief
Obama Won With Web's Help. Now, How to Govern Using That Community?
"Fired up, ready to go -- that was the campaign slogan," says a beaming Ernest E. Johnson on a recent Saturday. A real estate agent and longtime Washington activist, the 60-year-old worked the streets and the Internet, networking and organizing to make sure Barack Obama got elected president. "Well, people are still fired up and [...]
Tagged:Activism, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Campaigning, Internet, Politics, Technology, Text Messaging, Wikipedia, YouTube
Politics Is No Longer Local. It’s Viral.
Around this time last year, I was driving through the snow-covered flatlands of the Hawkeye State, headed to a bowling alley where a dozen college students from the University of Northern Iowa were holding court at lanes 27 and 28. All members of a group called UNI Students for Barack Obama, they were dressed from [...]
