Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Conference News from Valleywag
Valleywag's Owen Thomas gives his opinions on EmTech08 happenings.
By TR Editors
Here are a few of the posts from Owen Thomas, managing
editor of Valleywag.com:
Technology
Review editor addicted to Twitter, gossip
I'm here in the hub of
the universe for EmTech, a conference thrown by Technology Review, MIT's magazine of self-importance. Jason
Pontin, who is the magazine's editor-in-chief, publisher, and whatever title
he's added last week...read
more
Ethanol
investor wants to kill the electric car
At MIT's EmTech
conference, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla made a shocking assertion: Electric
cars are irrelevant. Unless some unlikely breakthrough in battery technology
comes about...read
more
Gina
Bianchini lurks outside the walled garden
"That is not my
presentation, although it would be very sexy if it were," said Ning CEO
Gina Bianchini, as she took the stage at MIT's EmTech conference here, with
someone else's Windows desktop blown up on a screen behind her...read
more
A gigantic picture of Robert Scoble for no reason
Fast Company videoblogger Robert Scoble, who has discovered in
the Web a popularity which escaped him in high school, has been
moderating a panel...read more
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