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As interesting as the two keynote, three panels, and nineteen CEO product presentations that I’ve seen in the last eight hours have been, I gotta say: I feel kind of depressed. There have been all kinds of interesting ideas positted here on the second day of OnHollywood. Ariana Huffington talked about the blogosphere as court…

The last conference I attended was the 1987 Pennsylvania Association of Student Council Conference in Altoona. I gave a presentation on managing the social pressures that come with student leaderhsip. That’s a long way from talking Web 2.0 across the street from Mann’s Chinese Theater. I flew into Los Angeles this afternoon for the Always…

“The true life of a believer,” Bono says, “is one of a longer, more hazardous uphill pilgrimage where you uncover slowly the illumination for your next step.” Somewhere between running the New Jersey Half Marathon, watching the documentary, “So Goes The Nation,” shopping for furniture and doing two loads of laundry, I finished “Bono: In…

ProTools has finally made it out of its box in the closet of my new apartment to the floor of the closet of my new apartment. Just in time to capture this new idea (which is sorely in need of a Chris Abad solo) that hit me Saturday morning. The form and structure is super-familiar…

Listen, I know my life isn’t all sturm und drang. I had lunch with a longtime colleague of mine today. Now, I rarely do lunch. I usually eat a salad at my desk. But lately, that I can combine a work conversation with a change of scenery (that is, something other than my computer monitor)…

I feel like I’m fading away. There’s only one section of my interview with “Generation X” Douglas Coupland that didn’t make the MTV News article or even my complete transcript. Towards the end of our conversation, he told me (as he did The UK Register a few weeks prior) that “For about four months back…