Silicon Valley Watcher

TEDxBerkeley is one of my favorite regional TEDx events. It has its own flavor and character. 

From Palm Springs Art Museum: Duane Hansen - “Old Couple on a Bench" 1995

"Hey, send me that link!" You'll hear that phrase everywhere and in every language around the world. The hyperlink is as core part of our global culture as it is core to the Internet itself.

Peggy Noonan WSJ writes :

“The Franken case represents not a collapse of tolerance for flawed human behavior but a rise of judgment about what is acceptable.”

This means that you always have to choose a higher morality than is available today. The future has only one lens.

It reminds me of this post from 2006:

“Welcome to the future transparency of your life”

http://zd.net/1iujaEA

This coming Tuesday in San Francisco, The Atlantic magazine is hosting a free day-long event about diversity and inclusion in the tech industry.

Above, still from the film, Ben Bradlee talking about newspapers being allowed “..to go about our business. Which is not to be loved …but to go after the truth.” 

Deloitte sees a future where businesses are able to use new technologies in concert rather than trying to master each one individually.

What do you get if you ask 600 tech industry news readers to rank the top tech scandals of 2017? You get a very long infographic!

Old web pages dominate the first page of Google’s search results and new pages less than one year old represent only 0.3 percent of the top ten Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) for 2 million randomly selected keywords.

The media industry continues to be disrupted and former high flying new media companies are being hit as revenues from advertising continue to fall despite increased readership.