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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

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At dinner last week, my long time friend Dave Jilk (we just celebrated our 30th friendship anniversary) tossed a hypothesis at me that as people age, they resist adopting new technologies. People working in information technology tend to take a producer perspective. The essay follows. I think he totally nails it. What do you think?

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Hidden Boulder Gem: The Media Archeology Lab

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Several weeks ago the team at the Media Archeology Lab (MAL) celebrated their accomplishments to date by hosting an event – called a MALfunction – for the community. The experience of the lab is one of true technological perspective and those moments of retrospection make me happy.

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Engage in the New Colorado Digital Service

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One of the many great things about the Governor of Colorado is that he’s an entrepreneur, having started multiple successful technology companies, including BlueMountainArts.com (acquired by Excite for $800m) and Provide Commerce (IPO, then acquired by Liberty Media for $500m).

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Feld.com Automagically Upgraded To HTTPS By Pantheon

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With major media sites such as NYTimes.com joining the movement, now over half of all web requests are served securely to the browser. Website technology providers had to make HTTPS a turnkey experience. Use of HTTPS (which stands for HTTP Secure) has grown from 13% of the top one million websites to 19% in the past year.

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How To Predict The Future

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By day he works on web and social media for HP. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. Smaller equals faster in processor technology.). But manufacturing technology has proceeded to get smaller and smaller.

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The GameStop Phenomenon

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Boomer hedgies getting crushed by young folks self-organizing in social media. Welcome to another part of our world (financial markets), where the unintended consequences of technology wreak havoc. Technology has increased the velocity of change. Technology has increased the velocity of change. But hang on.

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Entrepreneurs Unplugged With Grag Maffei and Michael Zeisser of Liberty Media

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On Monday, 10/11/10 from 6:15pm to 7:30pm I’ll be interviewing Greg Maffei (CEO of Liberty Media) and Michael Zeisser (SVP of Liberty Media) as part of the Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurs Unplugged series.

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