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Disruptive Innovation
Thursday, April 29, 2010 by Dave Winer.
I got a last-minute invite to something called the Disruptive Innovation Awards at the Tribeca Film Festival. They opened with a video that is super-scary about the changes that social media brings about. 
http://www.tribecadisruptiveinnovationawards.com/
Robert De Niro is in the room! :-)
Here's the intro speaker.
Clay Christensen of Harvard Business School is speaking soon.
Eric Raymond is in the room, as is Jack Dorsey.
Jared Cohen of the US State Dept, one of the honorees, quoted an Iranian saying no one over 30 knows what Bluetooth is. That's nonsense and ageist. I won't disrupt this disruption award ceremony to push back on this.
The guy from Wordle is winning an award.
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Dave Winer, 54, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California.
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"The father of modern-day content distribution." - PC World.
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