I’ll be speaking January 23 (tomorrow) at 1pm at the Holmes Report’s In2 Innovation Summit in San Francisco on a panel discussing: “Smash the Agrarian Clock and Other Innovation Mandates.” When 22 year olds can call the shots, the office hours can't …

I left the Financial Times at the end of May 2004 because I could see that there was something enormously game changing going on in the media industry. I felt it at a gut level at the time ( I can quantify it much better today . . .). I took most …

I want to focus on content and not technology and yet I have been off-line for days because of hardware failures. And trying to learn the new worlds of "many-media"--how different types of media are prepared, produced, and then distributed.These …

I've been hampered in my posting lately because my usually trusty Thinkpad X31 crashed early last week and I have to send for the recovery CD and install a new drive.Vid Shots and ShortsPlus, I've been trying to learn how to use my Sony …

I used to be impressed by Wells Fargo, professional and with great service. My local bank manager even used to call and invite me to barbecues. That was when I had money in various accounts. He never calls anymore, now that I'm a semi-liquid media …

I've been enjoying time with my 12 year old daughter Sarah, who is on spring break and came down from Sebastapol to stay with me for a few days.Monday we were down in Santa Cruz at the Boardwalk, one of our favorite local spots. Tuesday we popped …

I tend to work late in the day and into the night because the evening events are often poorly attended by other journalists, and so there is a greater chance of bringing back a scoop. Tuesday evening I went to HP's launch of enterprise OS and …

By Tom ForemskiTwyla Tharp, the celebrated New York based dancer has a hot book that is making the rounds out here in Silicon Valley. The Creative Habit is her blueprint for how she primes the creative and inspirational pumps. The popularity …

Over the past few weeks I've had time to continue my exploration of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): the glue that holds together the Web 2.0 generation of web sites. It is easy to get lost in that CSS space and lose hours, and days, because it …

. . . It's good to be back in London after nearly three years away. When I arrive with my son Matthew, the weather is pretty much as I remembered it, mild and gray, and night falls early--by 4.30pm it's nearly dark. The streets are full of people …

I'm heading out to London later today for my parent's 50th anniversary, with my son Matt. I have to figure out my internet access once I get there so I might be offline for a day or two. In the meantime, here are a few items: . . . Jon Swartz, …

By Tom Foremski for Silicon Valley Watcher I do a lot of talking about media, blogging and what it all means. I talk to groups of marketing, PR/comms, journalists, entrepreneurs and executives and I like doing it. I like talking about media even if …

I'm still digging out from my recent India trip, here are a few bits and pieces... . . . Here is a hot search engine that gives old meaning to that term: http://www.MsDewey.com (Hat Tip Dida Kutz) . . . I recently spoke at an event organized by …

My good buddy Tom Abate at the San Francisco Chronicle keeps reminding me that I should share my "Foremski's Law." It is something I've been talking about with small numbers of select individuals over the past 18 months or so.... Here is …

I'm back from a very interesting trip to India, I'll have at least one more post on my trip. I just wanted to let people know that I will be at the de Young from 6.30pm to 8.30pm for "First Friday with Foremski." Come on by and enjoy the museum. …

Tuesday morning I'll be flying to India, my first visit, and I'm excited. I'll be travelling with Tibco (an SVW sponsor) as Vivek Ranadive, CEO of Tibco, launches his book over there - "The Predicitve Enterprise." I'll be a fly on the wall as Mr. …

I've been thinking about how ideas are created and how they are used. There seems to be a life span to good business ideas in that most ideas eventually become obvious because at some point they will make sense to most people. Within the startup …

By Tom Foremski for SiliconValleyWatcherI would love to buy the San Jose Mercury if it's still for sale. I know *exactly* what to do with it, how to turn into a superbly profitable cash printing laughing-to-the-bank golden-goose machine.Maybe I …

By Tom Foremski for SiliconValleyWatcherGiovanni Rodriguez from Eastwick Communications, seems to think that Strumpette, the latest out-of-left-field blogging sensation written as a stylishly erotic PR blog, by Amanda Chapel--is a fake. Maybe, …

I'm not sure how I came across egoSurf. I couldn't resist plugging my ego into its search box and its algorithm calculated 17,731 Ego points. Which apparently is quite good putting me into 3rd place on the "biggest egos" chart.Somehow I beat out …

By Tom Foremski for SiliconValleyWatcherI have completely fallen for Slave Girl (http://www.sandhillslave.com) and I think that every other red-blooded person in this somewhat emasculated region has too. I have had some correspondence with Slave …

By Tom Foremski for SiliconValleyWatcherI've been away from the blogosphere, or rather mediasphere for three days, and I noticed that it is still here.I spent those moments with my kids and I've grown to like spending my time offline. The resolution …

By Tom Foremski, Silicon Valley WatcherIt's a warm Wednesday evening in North Beach San Francisco and it is Neal Cassady's 80th birthday and the remnants of the Beat generation, Jack Kerouac's remaining drinking buddies, are inside a small …

By Tom Foremski for SiliconValleyWatcherMy apologies--but I've been in Greta Garbo mode this past week--I just needed to spend some time alone, with myself. That's why my email is so backed up along with all my other conversations.It's nothing …

By Tom Foremski for SiliconValleyWatcherI didn't do much work this Martin Luther King three-day weekend. My 18-year old son Matthew was staying with me for a few days so it was good just to hang out together while being able to do things seperately …

By Tom Foremski, Silicon Valley WatcherThe religous discussions around intelligent design cropped up during my recent dinner with Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM's chief strategist on Linux and all things open-source/industry standard. I mentioned I …

By Tom Foremski, Silicon Valley WatcherI spent most of Monday in the valley. First in Palo Alto with the Society for New Communications Research, a recently formed think tank. Dan Farber of ZDNet, and Tom Abate of the SF Chronicle, and I are among …

I love road trips and in a few minutes I'm hitting the road to Portland to meet with Mike Faden, our editor, and also Lucaso, our contributing editor. I'm driving up with my 17 yr old son Matt so it's a special time for me (and hopefully for him too …

By Tom Foremski for SiliconValleyWatcherMy apologies for being so very far behind in my email correspondence. A combination of moving apartments/office and family obligations forced me to be off-line for much of a two week period and now I have …

By Tom Foremski for SiliconValleyWatcherI had forgotten how very painful moving apartments can be. That is what I've been doing for the past 10 days or so. And it is why I haven't been blogging or checking my email.Unwiring and rewiring my life has …