Insert Al Gore joke here

I stood four feet away from Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, after his keynote at Gov 2.0 today. He has a very cute British accent because he’s, well, British. He’s so British, in fact, he’s been knighted by the Queen. I was totally star-struck. I wanted to go up to him, [...]

Turning to Twitter for stock advice

Timm Sprenger of the Technical University of Munich is part of a team that studied more than 100,000 tweets mentioning German political parties to correctly predict the outcome of the last German election. Now he’s turning his attention to how Twitter can help investors predict the performance of the financial market. Sites like StockTwits and [...]

Go, Go, Gov 2.0!

I’m covering Gov 2.0 for SmartBrief this week, live-tweeting from @sbosm in the mornings and blogging for the SmartBlog every day. Here’s my post for today, on how to improve your content’s chances of going viral. Watch this space for an expanded version of Dan Zarrella‘s advice in the next couple of days.

Pakistan is the new China

Pakistan is now blocking proxy servers, specific Twitter accounts and news stories. What’s even more crazy-making is that there are angry mobs out there showing public support for this, and all the sane people are too scared to speak up. Heck, even Pervez Musharraf says it’s a great idea. Farieha Aziz, an assistant editor for [...]