Edward Cone

Election 2008: The Internet Campaign Blog: Putting the Edwards’ Quote In Context Web video and social networks are two of the hottest technologies for Campaign ’08. Video is ready for prime time, social networking is a relative unknown. Video arrived in 2006, when George Allen, then a Republican Virginia senator, called a rival staffer the […]

Joe Trippi is rolling down I-95 toward Charleston, S.C., headed for a debate he could only have imagined four years ago. A senior adviser to the John Edwards presidential campaign, Trippi helped pioneer Web politics as Howard Dean’s campaign manager during the 2004 election. Now, though, Internet campaigning is mainstream. “No one’s laughing this time,” […]

Anyone who’s been to karaoke night at a local bar knows that access to a microphone is no guarantee of talent. Or as fans of American Idol might say, "Sanjaya." This immutable law remains, well, immutable when content distribution is radically democratized by the Internet. We’ve learned that talent is spread more broadly across populations […]

The Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit cofounded by wealthy Washington lawyer Michael Klein, is dedicated to “using the revolutionary power of the Internet and new information technology to enable citizens to learn more about what Congress and their elected representatives are doing,” as its mission statement proclaims. The statement adds that Sunlight is “unique in that […]

Women are leaving information technology jobs for a variety of interrelated reasons, including historical patterns of labor relations and persistent problems within the field. Negative implications of the trend include reduced opportunities for women in the workplace, decreasing innovation and competitiveness in technology and the economy at large, but it defies a single, silver-bullet solution. […]

Robert Sutton’s book, The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t (Warner Business Books, February 2007), stemmed from articles he wrote for the Harvard Business Review and CIO Insight. “I was surprised how much suffering there was out there,” says the Stanford management science professor, referring to the deluge of […]

When the history of web video is written, Ze Frank should get a page or two in the section on pioneers. The creator of an innovative daily video blog called The Show (www.zefrank.com/theshow), Ze (short for Hosea) ended the one-year run of his brainchild in mid-March. Along he way he created a smart, funny, online […]

Technology companies don’t need cuddly public reputations to succeed. Quite the opposite, in fact, as powerhouses from Microsoft to Oracle to Sun Microsystems—even Apple, with that whiff of smugness about it—have proved over the years. From the start, however, Google has marketed itself on niceness. It trumpets an unofficial motto, “Don’t be evil,” publishes a […]

Since the beginning of the decade, the ranks of IT management in the U.S. have swelled by 75 percent, to more than 400,000 men and women. Many of these managers are low- and mid-level administrators, a mostly faceless lot who carry out policies and processes established from above. A few, however, stand out from the […]

NAME: Jun Ying TITLE: Global I.T. Director, Web Development COMPANY: The Coca-Cola Company CAREER: Architects cool internet projects Jun ying hired on with the Coca-Cola Company in late 2005 to help launch a virtual environment called Coke Studios, a sort of branded precursor to the now-popular Second Life site. The project was a huge hit, […]

Predictions of the Internet’s imminent demise have been around almost as long as public interest in the net itself. But lately there’s been something of a bull market in doom and gloom. Is it time to panic? Probably not. According to a much-discussed report from the Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) group at Deloitte Touche […]

Why the surge of sky-is-falling rhetoric in the early months of 2007? Three possible explanations include misapplication of anecdotal evidence, the conflation of long-term and short-term views, and political gamesmanship. The rise of video traffic and pervasive, widespread broadband are clearly real phenomena, obvious to anyone watching YouTube via high-speed wireless at their favorite coffee […]