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wow i haven't published a blog post in a year - welcome to the age of micro-blogging & the automation of social sharing...

i have still been active online in some capacity almost every day though, whether via my favorite form of personal expression (photo sharing via flickr) or twitter, facebook, etc... but for the most part brevity has been the norm - but what about when you have a little more to share about a topic than the 140 characters on twitter, thus my return to this good old blog :)

i started nomadic audio as a way to comment on and keep track of the wonders of podcasting - and for this post i want to return to that topic and away from my morph of this blog into work related topics (cto, media, technology, venture, technology due diligence)...

i still listen to and like lots of podcasts but i absolutely love a few - escape pod is one t

activate summit 2009August 12 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife

disclosure: this is a cross post of something i did for landmark ventures' "doing it for good" group on linkedin...

How would you go about building a better future by leveraging the power of the Internet?

That was the question my friend Matt McAlister brought to his employers at the Guardian and from that question was created the Activate ’09 Summit. I attended the inaugural event held at the Guardian’s headquarters in London on July 1st. As one of their editors so ably states, "The Guardian has a clear purpose to deliver high quality independent liberal journalism in the pursuit of social justice.” The summit was designed to get into the heads of the people (activators) driving the most important changes in politics, society, technology and the economy. It was a day meant

semtech 2009 - venture panelJuly 26 2009

another panel i participated in at semantic technologies conference this past june in san jose...

MODERATOR:
Steve Bastasini, Cerebra

PANELISTS:
Eghosa Omoigui, Intel Capital
Peter Rip, Crosslink Capital
Michael S. Dunn, Hearst Interactive Media
Shawn Carolan, Menlo Ventures

After a period of caution about the viability of semantic technologies, investors seem more willing to fund semantic start-ups right now. And even with the economy in distress, semantics is managing to create excitement amongst the VCs. Semantic search has been hot for a couple of years - the possibility of finding the next Google being just too enticing - but the focus seems now to be shifting to enterprise and consumer apps where as Jim Hendler famously said "a little semantics goes a long way." Money is going into enterprise software, such as business intelligence tools, and innovative consumer apps based around social networks, smarter information filtering and productivity enhancement.

interviewed by jon udell on semtechJuly 26 2009

IT Conversations | Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators | Michael S. Dunn (Free Podcast)

i've been friends with jon for years, so it was nice to catchup with him at the guardian's activate summit in london on july 1st - one of topics we discussed over lunch was the semtech 2009 conference i spoke at in june...

in this podcast for doug kaye's fantastic it conversation network jon and i speak about the state of semantic technologies and linked data related to the media industry...