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from the internet week meetup that i moderated last week in nyc...

Semantic Advertising Panel from Morton Swimmer on Vimeo.

here's a video of the opening comments i made at the nyc semantic web meetup that i hosted at the hearst tower this past spring - go into some changing aspects of journalism, how semantic tools can help and give a background on my role...

Mike Dunn at the New York Semantic Web Meetup from Marco Neumann on Vimeo.

future of journalism looks bright but differentMay 5

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disclosure

i am not a journalist (which should be very evident by my writing style), but rather am an emerging media technologist who has worked with and for some of the worlds largest media entities, normally as a cto - currently at hearst interactive media...

speaking at asu

in late march, i traveled out to phoenix to speak to dan gillmor's program at asu, the knight center for digital media entrepreneurship, which is part of the walter cronkite school of journalism and mass communication - i participated in 4 different sessions, a few made up of j-school students and a few made up of students focused on digital media and entrepreneurship related to emerging media - my talk and the conversations of the day focused on the changing nature of journ

open sourcing experienceFebruary 21

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in today's highly social online world i've noticed a trend over the last few years that i think will really change the way we seek, receive and share our experience and knowledge with others - i refer to it as open sourcing our experience...

last summer i posted the technology due diligence process that i've developed after years of being responsible for performing venture and acquisition related analysis of the technology and product development utilized by companies seeking funding or for sale. i originally posted the process in advance of a venture related media summit that i was hosting at my building (hearst tower) but i'd been sharing it with start-ups and other vc's for years. by posting it to my blog though i basically open sourced my experience so others could both leverage it as is or take it as a starting point and add to it in a way that makes sense for their specific needs. since posting it i've gotten lots of positive feedback and some start-ups coming to visit us have even shown up with answers t

cto of usaNovember 14 2008

Barack Obama | Change We Can Believe In | Technology.

"Obama will appoint the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to ensure that our government and all its agencies have the right infrastructure, policies and services for the 21st century. The CTO will ensure the safety of our networks and will lead an interagency effort, working with chief technology and chief information officers of each of the federal agencies, to ensure that they use best-in-class technologies and share best practices."

i'm pretty apolitical by nature, when pressed i usually state that i'm a libertarian, the passive non-freak show kind - i stayed out of this discussion when it happened online awhile back but being a cto for the latter half of my career and now that barack will be putting this into action, i felt the need to chime in along with the various reactions (scoble, riley, wag, rizzn,