Travels with Rhody

Time for my second update on the big technology and business stories that have been keeping me busy lately.
It’s been an incredible privilege to get to know so many of the founder-entrepreneurs from this summer’s class of Y Combinator companies. Continuing myseries of YC profiles, I wrote a story on September 20 about Whereoscope, which [...]

This is the first in a series of roughly semi-monthly summaries of my major articles in Xconomy.
At this point, Google has all but confirmed that it’s working on a social networking play, though it’s not clear yet whether “Google Me” is going to be a coherent service comparable to Facebook or just a set of [...]

I’ve been making an effort to use today’s social media channels more effectively to spread the word about all the great stories we’re putting out at Xconomy. This blog is part of that strategy — I picked the so-called “Antisocial” Wordpress theme because of the cool social-media buttons on the left side of the screen. [...]

I’m writing this in Salt Lake City, about three-quarters of the way from Boston to San Francisco. Just two more days of driving to go. If you do all your transcontinental travel by plane, you forget how big the country really is—especially the western half of it.
Usually I’d be paying more attention to the scenery [...]

No self-respecting digital media writer can go on a road trip without documenting the whole thing digitally. Soon after I’d decided to drive from Boston to San Francisco to take up my new post as Editor of Xconomy San Francisco—and recruited my good friend Graham Gordon Ramsay to share the driving—we hatched a devious plan [...]

I haven’t been updating Travels With Rhody much lately, and today I can finally say why: I’ve been working behind the scenes to help launch Xconomy San Francisco, the newest city in Xconomy’s national network. (Props to Scott Kirsner at the Boston Globe for figuring this out a couple of weeks ago.) The new site [...]

Physicians like Atul Gawande (Complications) have written plenty about how medical malpractice lawsuits are an ineffective way to prevent medical errors. And lawyers and journalists have been talking for years about the flaws in medical malpractice law, and how the idea of “no-fault” malpractice compensation might be fairer for everyone involved in cases of iatrogenic [...]

I couldn’t be more gratified about the response that the Mass Mobile Month campaign has been generating in the local technology community. With 15 events on the docket between late February and early April, and with something like 25 supporting organizations signed up to help promote them, it’s looking like March 2010 will be the [...]

One of our big projects for the last week at Xconomy has been launching MassMobileMonth.com, a website collecting information about the unusually large selection of mobile technology events going on in and around Boston in March 2010. With help from more than a dozen organizations and companies around town, we’ve put together a detailed guide [...]

A side project that’s been occupying a lot of my weekend time lately has finally come to fruition. It’s an e-book version of the first 80 editions of my weekly Xconomy column World Wide Wade, which focuses on the intersection of digital media, Internet culture, entrepreneurship, and creativity. The book is called Pixel Nation: 80 [...]