Archive for March, 2009

Ken Robinson from TED conference on creativity in schools

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

http://www.ITACityLIGHTS.com o…

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

http://www.ITACityLIGHTS.com on April 23… buy a table & come celebrate with Chicago tech community, or register to sit with an ambassador

http://ping.fm/8nspd on April …

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

http://ping.fm/8nspd on April 23… buy a table & come celebrate with Chicago tech community, or register to sit with an ambassador

Just added myself to the http:…

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #socialentrepreneur #chicago #tech

unconvinced of Twitter value. …

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

unconvinced of Twitter value. But read Christopher Walkin, especially hearing his deadpan cadence in my head, helps http://ping.fm/K3C7v

Still unconvinced of Twitter v…

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Still unconvinced of Twitter value. But reading Christopher Walkin, especially hearing his deadpan cadence in my head, helps http://ping …

Interesting start of the discu…

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Interesting start of the discussion… Chicago beyond the Burnham plan… bigger visions for the region… http://ping.fm/Lo8c8

Time to take the top off the J…

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Time to take the top off the Jeep… Chicago is thawing… bring on the sun.

… Golden Gloves tourney, Add…

Friday, March 20th, 2009

… Golden Gloves tourney, Addison and Paulina… 15 fights left tonight

2 flight cncld, 6 hr delay, on…

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

2 flight cncld, 6 hr delay, on tarmac, plane “glitch”, need “about an hour”. By fieldtrip of 13yr old boys having fart contest. I could win.

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A shifting of my priorities…

I’ve been mostly silent for the past three weeks, and absent from community events. I’ve disconnected as much as possible from the routine, and shifted focus to my family. Here’s why… Four years ago, my 30-year-old sister Hilliary died after a courageous battle with a rare and insidious cancer. It was the f...

Trademarks matter, and this is exactly why they exist

Today Timelines Inc., a growing young company based inside of Chicago's TechNexus, filed a trademark infringement suit against Facebook. Timelines has operated timelines.com, a site that allows people to post pictures and notes to tell the story of their lives and the story of events around them. They have a registered trademark, and even face...

The future voices of ChiTech Academy

I just returned from a visit to Chicago Tech Academy and my first visit with an assembly of the 150 new freshmen... and I am inspired! This third class of students seems to be the most inquisitive, the most engaged and the most eager bunch of students I’ve met at the new high school. The reputation of ChiTech after the fi...