Wozniak weighs in on 'Big Idea' challenge
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Blog: A melding of the minds aims to prosper at the IdeaFestival and the "What's Your Big Idea" contest.
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Speaker asks: "Do you want NAC because you heard it's important or do you have real business problems to solve?"
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Defending Bernard Ebbers, the former chief of WorldCom who is accused of conspiracy, may be Reid Weingarten's biggest challenge ever.
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An MIT inventor bent on public service creates practical solutions to life-threatening problems around the world. Her approach: be a master of the obvious. Second in a series profiling this year's MacArthur 'genius award' winners. By Kari Lynn Dean.
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The world's biggest collider hopes to create a smorgasbord of exotic particles, from the so-called God particle to dark matter and maybe even miniature black holes. John Borland goes to the edge of theory.
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For Russian opposition campaigner and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, even something as simple as holding a meeting can be an obstacle course.
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Here's a problem that some investment dollars help solve. Apparently, the TechCrunch 40 conference isn't streaming to the outside world because the Palace Hotel has incredibly lame networking, and they won't allow conference promoters to bring in more wires? This is what I hear, although it's not confirmed. Emails to the conference promoters yesterday were not responded to.  I've also received emails from a number of companies announcing products at the show who want coverage on Scripting News, so my interest is not entirely idle.  So what does it take to establish one hotel in SF as the default tech conference hotel? Networking! Geez, you'd think it's obvious by now. We do things that require networks. Look in any conference room around the world for a clue. And supposedly San Francisco is the central node in the network of technology bringing all this great stuff to the rest of the world. So where is the hotel that gives us the very most basic technology to wire up conferences so that the whole world can participate?  Do we need to move the tech industry to another city? Someone please ask the Mayor or Google or someone in charge when they're going to fix this problem. It should have been solved in 1997, and it's already 2007.  BTW, here's a clue: there are some great business opportunities, beyond conferences, for the first physical location in downtown SF to solve this problem. Just ask Loic.
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New OWB merits serious consideration
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The inventor of the World Wide Web told a technology conference on Wednesday that making the Web more useful hinges on a familiar challenge: Getting the players behind
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Looking to make a smart start? Consider these ideas.
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A new Web site, Big Think.com, aims to let thought leaders and the publich share opinions on various topics.
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A big company needs some big ideas in order to grow bigger.
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Neal Shapiro hasnât been shy about putting his at times unorthodox stamp on WNET and his own team in place.
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Whether humans will embrace or resist an innovation is the billion-dollar question facing designers of novel products and services.
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By Kent, Joan  La Crosse leaders will start off the new year by considering a proposal directing City Engineer Randy Turtenwald to design barriers for the Riverside Park levee.  The proposal comes three months after the Sept.
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As previously mentioned, Nick Halstead will be revealing the top three places in the results from the programming competition he was hosting. Today starts the top three list with third place - an entry from Karol Grecki:   I was really impressed with Karol's entry and if it was not for the fact that it did not 'run out of the box' it would have been a close cut thing to be the winner. The fact is that because it was a pain to get running the two other judges only gave it 1 point each.   The post includes Karol's solution - a method that involved using the Zend Framework as a backdrop. You can see the application in action on Karol's website or just download the code and play along at home.
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Comment is free: Neal Lawson: The challenge is to seize the initiative and create a new public realm that enables a more equal world to take shape.