About Us
Traveling Geeks is a consortium of entrepreneurs, thought leaders, authors, journalists, bloggers, technology innovators and influencers who travel to countries to share and learn from peers, governments, corporations, and the general public to educate, share, evaluate, and promote new, innovative technologies. The initiative was founded by Renee Blodgett and Jeff Saperstein in 2008.
Trips are funded by sponsorships from corporations, organizations and governments. The first tour was sponsored by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a trip that successfully marked the proof of concept that could expand to other countries around the world.
Read MoreBritticisms: What’s the deal with “punter” …?
Okay, for me to get the British fiction I read, I gotta figure out:
punter — which I think is basically Everyman
tosser — not so good, a little rude
wanker — worse, very rude
Do I have it right?
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Is journalism dead in the 21st Century?
This is a re-post from Techcrunch Europe.
The Traveling Geeks gathered together for a great turnout (despite the torrential downpours) at the Guardian’s Media Talk (live) podcast. Our agenda was to discuss journalism and it’s rapid change in the 21st Century. Listen here.
While more and more newspapers lose their audience and their advertisers, print is quite quickly, becoming obsolete. In the video below you will see Sarah Lacy, JD Lasica and Robert Scoble discuss and confirm this theory.
In the second video, I asked Howard Rheingold to further extend the conversation into a video discussion about the journalism course at Stanford and the method of dragging people into the 21st century:
Europe no longer leads in mobile
When I first started visiting Europe about 15 years ago Europeans used to love taunting me with their wonderful new phones that were, back then, years ahead of the devices we’d get in the United States.
It was a point of regional pride that even though Silicon Valley and Microsoft had thoroughly run away with the technology industry that Europe still had one industry that they could point to and say “you can’t take it all.”
Today that no longer is true and, worse, Europe is stuck in a texting rut.
What happened? Europe started buying its own hype and today its citizens are stuck using phones that are way behind those from Google, Apple, and Palm. (Continue reading this entry…)
Phone video interview with founder of Moby Picture
The sound isn’t great, and I didn’t use a tripod so it is a little shaky, but I was streaming video from a Nokia N79 from a balcony overlooking the Thames (in a restaurant in the Globe Theater) when Mathys van Abbe, founder of Mobypicture came along — he had some good things to say about the future of digital storytelling.
DishyMix: Susan Bratton Podcasts & Blogs Executives
Banquet at Soho House Sponsored by Agency.com
Here’s a photo of our dinner with Agency.com, TBWA/London and some of their clients including Nike and Comic Relief. Bloggers beyond the Traveling Geeks included Mike Butcher, editor of TechCrunch and mbites.com as well as other agency heads, including Chris Walker, the newly appointed Managing Director of Agency.com.
Andy Hobsbawm, Chairman of Agency.com and Traveling Geek Susan Bratton, CEO of Personal Life Media
Andy Hobsbawm and I are friends from the TED conferences. He’s been a DishyMix guest and I’ll have him on again soon for you. In addition to Chairman of Agency.com Europe, his newest endeavor is Do The Green Thing. Following his passion, Andy offers ways we can all be proactive in leading a greener life.
An Evening with the A-List Bloggers
Niiiice!
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Scoble, Newmark and Foremski talk about the Traveling Geeks trip in London
This is a re-post from Techcrunch Europe.
Robert Scoble, Craig Newmark and Tom Foremski discuss what they have learned so far on the Traveling Geeks tour in London and what differences they see between Silicon Valley and the London tech scene.
“Augmented Reality, GPS, RFID, things like this make the world a more beautiful place,” @IndySaha.
Indy Saha, Group Planning Director/Digital Strategy Director, TBWA/LONDON "The Disruption Agency"
“Why? Because I want to know the truth”: Mike Butcher
@Mike Butcher, uk.techcrunch.com and mbites.com
Skype’s Blogger-in-Chief & Robert Scoble Chat about Social Media
Below, I’m interviewing Robert Scoble and Skype’s blogger-in-chief Peter Parkes about how blogging has changed over the years and how Skype is using blogging and social media in Europe and the rest of the world.
Backstage Pass- Login, login, login
I estimated last night that I spend 1/3 of my time trying to debug and solve connectivity issues[1] both at home and on the road. Though perhaps when I’m at home, more of that 1/3 goes toward updating software[2].
Please note – This video isn’t intended to put anybody on the spot, but when Susan was having so much trouble on Monday getting connected to wi-fi at the Reboot Britain meeting, it just seemed like old times to me! At big meetings like this (several hundred people) the wi-fi is frequently the crunch. Just getting an IP address, and then being able to stay connected 30 minutes or more, can be a challenge. To their credit, the venue did have really good wi-fi signals in all of the rooms at the conference center! However, I stayed on my BT Mobile Broadband connection the entire time (the little illustration is their USB modem device), and though the bandwidth was challenged (inside a brick, steel, concrete building) it was reliable.
[1] Connectivity includes finding wi-fi, dealing with “blocking” problems (more on that later), spam overload, and helping others get connected (which is major).
[2] I probably update a program every 2 days. This isn’t just Microsoft Office, but dozens of other programs I use. I use MacUpdate as a paid service to notify me of updates, although I’d say that 1/2 of the programs I use will automatically alert me when updates are available.
