I’m at the Aspen Ideas Festival , at a panel on how professionalism has changed. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words. My skillset? MORE >>

Everyone can use technology. Everyone. Marc Goodman starts, cheerily, by saying, “I study the future of crime and terrorism. And quite frankly I’m afraid.” ” He want to believe that technology will be the utopia, as many hope. Criminals have, of course, always used technology. The war room gave their order: “Kill him.” MORE >>

Holy cow! did not see that coming. Amusingly, at 10am this morning, I was giving my talk here at the Aspen Ideas Festival about knowledge in the age of the internet. I’d asked someone to interrupt when the news came through. So at 10:05, someone said: “The court overturned the individual mandate!” Anyway, pretty amazing outcome. MORE >>

I was just interviewed by Martin Metzmacher as part of his Netrepreneurs series. The 30 minute video interview is below. While the broad topic of the conversation was about how to use crowds effectively, Martin focused through the interview on my motivations for what I do. The gap between a vision and its realization is shrinking as never before. MORE >>

MIT professor Ramesh Raskar starts his talk by showing the classic Doc Edgerton photograph of an apple being shot by a bullet. It demonstrated an exposure of a millionth of a second. Wonderful, right? he asks us, to wide agreement. Only now, 50 years later, technology advances mean we can photograph a million times faster than this. TEDGlobal2012 MORE >>