This is a guest post written by Wilfried Schobeiri. Anyone watching Twitter trends over the last few days would have noticed the hashtag #CNNFail up there toward the top. Why? Because CNN and other major news media failed to pick up and report on the severity of the turmoil surrounding the Iranian elections. In the mean time, Twitter's #IranElection, Tehran, Mousavi, Ahmadinejad trends were fire hoses of real-time information, videos, and pictures. I should disclose this immediately: I was skeptical about Twitter. I had many doubts about its viability as a social/news medium. Too simple. Too small. Too saturated with banalities. Status updates? "What's the point when you have Facebook?" I asked. But over time, the value of the connections and content streams Twitter facilitated was made clear to… Continue reading

Just a brief salute to mark Ada Lovelace Day. I know hundreds of admirable, inspiring women in technology. Frankly I'm amazed when conference organizers and others complain about a "lack" of women in technology to serve as executives, authors, speakers and entrepreneurs. That's just a pretty lazy cop-out. There are plenty of women who inspire me every day and set amazing examples for the world through their intelligence, integrity and leadership. Selecting one is almost impossible, so I'll fall back on the woman whose tech leadership in the web's early days first caught my attention: Esther Dyson. Reading about her in the pages of Wired in the late 90's, her name and intelligence and leadership stuck with me like nobody else's. I was gushy… Continue reading

It's World Water Day. Leaving 1 in 6 humans without safe drinking water is a time bomb. Letting thousands of children under 5 die every day is a time bomb. Share this video, get involved with Charity: Water, and make a difference. With love, Pistachio

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So you're home (or you got to stay for SXSW music in which case I hate you. you're not really reading blogs anyhow) from SXSWi, missing your friends and recovering from 5 days of (pick all that apply) hangovers, sleep deprivation, inbox neglect, slipped deadlines. What's a geek to do? Don't drown yourself in the Twitterstream. Try these creative (hastily scribbled, I'm busy working on my own #1, below) cures... 10. Grab a 6-pack, jump into your neighbor's RV, sing loudly and off-key and… Continue reading

UPDATE: The campaign kicks off at the Mashable party tonight, 10 PM central Twice I've spent a week at Children's Hospital in Boston, once each with my daughters "S" and "Z." Both times I had the healthiest kid in the joint, and both times I was truly humbled and inspired by the heroic children and families who spend much too much time there. I was humbled to see guys my age on the elevator discussing their kids' blood counts as "normally" as sports scores. How do you normalize life when your… Continue reading