Visual Notes from Thursday afternoon Supernova conversations

Some of the visual notes from the afternoon sessions have been posted to Flickr. Each of these will open a larger-size version at the site. The Flickr photoset is here. The Human Side of Technology – led by @heathr and @debs. The State of Now – led by Jeff Pulver

Terms for Dummies – led by Anil Dash and Gina Trapani.

Live Streaming from Supernova Forum 2010

We will be streaming Supernova general sessions today through UStream. You can find the stream, and selected clips from last year’s event, on the Supernova home page.

Supernova in the Philly Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer ran an article earlier this week about the upcoming Supernova Forum 2010. It focused on how companies that are competitors in the marketplace and public policy debates are willing to share the stage and sponsor list at Supernova. This is something we’ve always been proud of. Supernova is a thought leadership forum. Being affiliated with a university reinforces the fact that even though we tackle major controversies, our goal is to generate insights rather than advocacy. Supernova is a place where those with different perspectives can come together to find common ground.

This is not just true for policy battles. Supernova has always drawn a mixture... Read More

How Gen Y and Tech are Changing History

Take a few minutes and watch this video of Jared Cohen from the US State Department. In it, he discusses how technology’s spread to different countries is important for our diplomatic and economic future. This piece fits in quite well with the Supernova themes from the last several years.

Supernova Video: Jeff Jarvis and the New Openness

At the Personal Democracy Forum I spoke with Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine blogger and associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at CUNY.

When we talked about the Supernova theme of Peristroika,  Jarvis noted “The Internet changes the structures we see, and as Susan Crawford said at PDF, we tend to like to hack around things. But there still is a power structure that can have an impact on us.” Jarvis is working on a book on “Publicness,”  in a recent blog post about the “Myth of the Opinionless Man” he the challenges of closed and non-transparent government. In our discussion he suggested... Read More