Absolutely hilarious. Baratunde Thurston is a comedian, vigilante pundit and television host. He is the co-founder of Jack & Jill Politics, blogs for The Huffington Post and his own site baratunde.com, and hosts “Popular Science’s Future Of” on the Science Channel.

I’m a big fan of Jeff Jarvis. I recently read his book What Would Google Do? (HarperCollins 2009), I found it refreshingly insightful. If you don’t know Jeff Jarvis he runs Buzz Machine, a popular blog about media and news . He is an associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism and a regular on one of my favorite net casts This Week in Google from Leo Laporte’s Twit network.

The presentation is about an hour long and there are a number of segments worth watching. Fora TV does an adequate job of breaking their presentations down into segments for syndication, but they don’t however,  offer presentations in their entirety for syndication, so I’ve included the first 10 minutes. If you’re interested you can watch Jeff’s entire presentation on Fora. Enjoy!

We worry that IM, texting, Facebook are spoiling human intimacy, but Stefana Broadbent’s research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules.

Most famous for his articles about Joe DiMaggio, Dean Martin, and Frank Sinatra, Gay Talese describes the deleterious effects that recording devices, hollowed expense accounts, and an emphasis on ‘indoor life’ have had on the writing process. Talese does a fantastic job of illustrating the point on how technology has impacted journalism.

On the 40th anniversary of the invention of the Internet, We Live in Public reveals the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of,” artist, futurist and visionary Josh Harris.

Hosts Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur of net@night interview Ondi Timoner producer and director of We Live In Public, Josh Harris, founder of Pseudo.com, and close friend Jason Calacanis, founder and CEO of Mahalo.com.

We Live In Public is a fantastic documentary. You can find theatrical release dates at weliveinpublicthemovie.com along with videos, photos, and more. Visit net@night to download or stream the audio version of the netcast from TWiT.TV.

Courtesy of LMcDuff08 via Youtube.

Toby Segaran, Jeff Hammerbacher

Imran Ali of WebWorkerDaily wrote a great series last week titled “The Future of Work” covering the evolving workforce, the need for statisticians and the growing use of statistical analysis to tell stories, work-group methodologies, and a report about trending behaviors of small businesses and freelances. The whole series is worth reading as it lays out key talking points for a discussion about the future of the workplace environment. The following list outlines Ali’s series on WebWorkerDaily:

• The Future of Work: Will Right-Brained Workers Own the 21st Century?
  A review of Daniel H. Pink and the conceptual age of work through six aptitudes Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Play, and Meaning.
• The Future of Work: It’s Data, Baby Information on the growing need for statisticians and extracting stories from data.
• The Future of Work: Noded The philosophy of Noded working, where each member is an individual professional running his or her own business, coming together to work on projects when a project calls for it.
• The Future of Work: The Freelancer Report 2009 A user survey from online accounting service FreeAgent tracking trending behaviors of 535 freelancers and small businesses.

Related Articles: “Trend Following and Tech Opportunities” by Samuel Dean of WebWorkerDaily and from the New York Times, “For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics”.

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Note to self: Don’t 'friend' your boss on FB and then b*tch about your job.

Your social media is accessible to everyone, especially those you befriend. Courtesy, April Buchheit on Friendfeed. Found via ZEE, The Next Web.