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Web 2.0 Ireland (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
My good friend, Susan Mernit, co-founder Peoples Software and ex-Yahoo Director/VP Netscape/AOL, sent a note in relation to the Knight News Challenge. Its a US-based foundation giving away $5 million a year for grants in digital, open-source innovation Some notes The last day to submit applications for funding is November 1st. Site is at www.newschallenge.org, with [...]
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Roland Tanglao's Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Here's the Knight News Challenge Question and Answer with Susan Mernit portion of the video (i missed the last few questions because I ran out of disk space, this video was 800MB!). I think it answers a lot of the common questions and shows how Susan is an engaging, articulate and savvy person.
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A View from the Isle (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Last night Susan Mernit ventured North to talk to a group of interested folks about the Knight News Challenge 2008 and how we could apply to get a grant to do cool things for the world. Kris Krug had graciously offered the Raincity Studios space for the (rainy) evening event and a good nearly two-dozen folks [...]
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Roland Tanglao's Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Read the whole thing from Richard to explore some possible Vancouver applications to the Knight News Challenge . And if you couldn't make last night's meetup last night, after the jump I have embedded a cameraphone video recording of Susan 's Knight News Challenge presentation below. Susan's a really great speaker (so my video doesn't do her justice) and really articulated the program well and made...
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Five Live Links (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=73319110202 Facebook | NewsChallenge Meet Up Vancouver, hosted by Susan Mernit. I'm going fer sure.
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Roland Tanglao's Weblog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Speaking of " Newspaper 2.0" and "Media 2.0" (whatever those terms mean :-) !), my friend Susan Mernit who I met way back in Boston at BloggerCon I in 2004 (was it 2004? I remember great discussion with Susan and Scott Johnson and others over dinner one night, where is Scott a now? ) and who besides having her own startup, People's Software Company , with another friend, Lisa Williams , is also a...
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LUSTY LADY (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Susan Mernit did a writeup on her panel with Viviane at Arse Electronika and quoted me a bit. I still say that I agree with Bonnie Ruberg on this one. I love many of the social networking platforms I use because I get such a huge amount of support from them. Blogging, of late, is not really one of those, but I still love it and probably always will, though think I'm infinitely better at cupcake blogging...
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Learning The Lessons of Nixon (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
[Originally posted at People’s Software Company Blog. PSCo is a joint venture between me and my friend Susan Mernit. We’re making lightweight mobile calendars to make it easier for you to actually show up places you’re supposed to be. Fabulous! This one’s about what it’s like to work at a startup, [...]
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Profy.Com (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Yesterday Susan Mernit and Lisa Williams from People’s Software presented their project named WhozAround? at TechStars Investor Day in Boulder. It is already possible to try out the Facebook application for WhozAround! (in alpha currently, beta promised to arrive soon) to see what this nice little tool is about. And since Susan has shared the information on the company’s blog already, I decided it...
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Talk It Up! (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Links over coffee for today: Susan Mernit blogs about creating a new girls' network, asking women geeks what they need Chris Brogan reviews Patrick O'Keefe's book, Managing Online Forums if you have to facilitate civil discussion in forums, sounds like...
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Back in skinny jeans (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
From her seat, Pasta Queen took this picture of my BlogHer 08 panel, "Coming Out Via Blog". I added some Icanhascheezburger fun. From, right to left is Susan Mernit our moderator, moi, Sarah Dopp of Dopp Juice, JenB of Jen...
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Social Media (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
Over at the People's Software blog, Susan Mernit and Lisa Williams look like they're having some fun out in Boulder, Colo., launching a startup whose mission is to provide a platform that makes it easy for anyone to launch a community site. God knows, the field needs something like this. Meantime, Scott Beale is beginning to post photos of this weekend's Foo Camp, the invitation-only geek fest put...
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Poynter Online (Free subscription) | 24/04/2008
TravelingGeeks.com Traveling Geeks, a group of Bay Area bloggers (including Susan Mernit) is blogging the world, starting with Israel. Twitter is becoming an internet utility, or, why we live in the shtetl (Susan Mernit): Lessons from a recent blogger trip to Israel: "A) People from all over the world talk online 24/7, B) Thus forming strong ties and virtual communities, and C) Twitter is a key tool...
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Valleywag (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008
Former Yahoo Personals exec Susan Mernit recently returned from a conference in Tel Aviv, Israel. The trip inspired an analogy: She compares the insular community of hyperconnected techies to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
