Raised on radio

One of the early electronic social media experiments was conducted in this area many years ago.
In the late 1960s, New York City invented Talk Radio. It's so common now that we take it for granted but forty years ago the idea of opening the phones and giving air time to just about anyone was new and dangerous. The hosts had to make frequent use of the seven-second delay that gave them a chance to prevent callers from violating FCC regulations.

Blogger in draft

Google has announced a new template designer for Blogger - the platform that hosts this blog - and I have enabled it. Here's an article from ReadWriteWeb that explains the changes. Blog writers can now edit the template used to control the appearance of the page. You can see the results here.

• New background image
• Tabbed pages for categories

Mass Innovation Nights #12

Four months ago - last November - was my first visit to Mass Innovation Nights. That meeting was at the Charles River Museum of Industry and that's where we met again tonight. I didn't write up the November event (I did write about the January meeting at the IBM Waltham offices).
Tonight's event was well-attended and featured Tweetworks. Mike Langford showed the new Tweetworks iPhone app - not yet in the App Store - and I hope to get a chance to try it in beta.

Other exhibitors/presenters included bite, thredUP, and Searchandize Commerce.
There were (apparently) no expert sessions, unlike previous MassInno events. The organizers also made better use of the space this time by moving exhibitors downstairs and holding the presentations in the big room upstairs instead of the amphitheater.

Boston Media Makers

My first visit to Boston Media Makers today - and a good time was had by all forty or fifty participants.
The meeting was facilitated by Diane Darling as Steve Garfield was in Hollywood for the Oscars. The venue was Doyles Cafe in Jamaica Plain. (No apostrophe and no accent on the final "e" in that name.)
I met some new people. In fact, the only people I already knew were Mike Walsh and Mike Grover. New to my contact list are: Adam Weiss, Roy Krantz, Zoe Susice, Ari Herzog, Diane Darling, Ed Justen, Bruce Garber, and Tapeleg.
Visit Bruce Garber's site for the video roll call where everyone at the meeting introduced themselves.
I plan to go back next month.

Just six words to describe you

The title of this post uses six words to describe the subject.
The idea comes from these fellow bloggers:
Tomato Baby Blog
Monkey With Glasses
Pie Bird Blog

Just six words?
How about: technology works like magic for me.
Or: will return to expand this post.

By the way, this is part of a collection of similar posts at Seeded Buzz.