Jun 13
This morning at the Paley Center for Media, David Kirkpatrick, senior editor for Internet and technology at Fortune, and veteran venture capitalist Alan Patricof, dissected the Facebook IPO, and what an interesting dissection it was. To Kirkpatrick, the stock’s plummet (at least by IPO standards) was the result of at least two factors: Nasdaq mishandling and the …
Aug 10
This week in London anarchists used social media tools to coordinate widespread looting and vandalism. That’s not surprising, says Evgeny Morozov, author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. New technology can be used for good and bad purposes and often it’s the latter that rules the day. But wait, says author and …
Mar 09
As part of FORA.tv’s weekly tradition, our newsletter features a provocative and compelling Big Question, inviting discourse and debate from our community. This week’s Big Question: Facebook: The New Face of Journalism and Advertising? David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, asserts that the …