Fred Gilbert, the president of Lakehead University in Canada has decided to limit Wi-Fi on campus.  He made the order "on the basis of possible health risk from the technology, especially to young people. Inconclusive studies into possible links between radio transmissions and leukemia and brain tumors from, among others, scientists for the California Public [...]

  Leonard said it first, "Hugh discovers Colour !!!!!"

I was listening to David Parmet’s post on the Naked Conversation Discussion Podcast (a public podcast on PodServe) where he describes his involvement in Shel and Robert’s book and it occured to me that I have certainly expectations regarding production values.  For some reason I think that podcasts should have a radio-level production value.  But [...]

First, we renamed the Investment Pitch Podcast, it is now the Elevator Pitch Podcast. We have lots of folks who want to upload their elevator pitch, but are not looking for money right now for various reasons. I think the new name reflects the purpose of the podcast better than the old name. What is [...]

At least according to VentureWire.  They describe Prosper as a mix of both types of companies.  Prosper’s goal is to connect borrowers with money lenders, while leaving banks out in the cold.  Brrr… The company just closed a Series B investment of $12MM lead by Fidelity Ventures (including Accel, Benchmark, Omidyar Network).  Accel and Benchmark [...]

Christopher Koch is writing some great articles about open source for CIO.  Here are links to a few of them: Your Open Source Checklist Your Guide to Open Source Business Models Who Makes Open Source? Free Code for Sale: The New Business of Open Source

The 800 pound gorilla in the hosted blog business, Six Apart (I used their TypePad product for MSR), raised $12MM in their Series C financing.  Om Malik suspects that the pre-money climbed north of $100MM.  The investors have not been disclosed, but Om suspects that one of them might be Intel.  Six Apart is being [...]

Brian interviewed Robert Scoble and Shel Israel at Starbucks this morning. Good on the guys for getting up early for the interview, especially since they stayed up late at Mike Arrington’s house at TechCrunch5. Brian asks them about their new book Naked Conversations. The interview is part of a "public podcast" created on PodServe. Check [...]

Do you have an idea for a startup? Are you looking for angel or vc dollars? I set up a podcast for you called the "Investment Pitch Podcast". Anyone can insert their pitch by creating a free account and uploading an mp3 of their pitch. 375 people have subscribed to the feed – i.e. you [...]

Russell, I don’t get MySpace either.  (IMHO: you should dump those Yahoo ads)