Have You Bought Gold?

Barack Obama has finally said "there is little doubt the United States is in a recession." After Phil Gramm told us we were in a "me...

3G Iphone: Such a joke

These were the people ahead of me in the Apple Store line in Burlingame this morning--a Saturday. I got there at 9 and left at 2 PM with my 3G iPho...

It's the Network, Stupid

So much fun to be an early adopter:-( I tried to upgrade to the iPhone 2.0 firmware yesterday, but couldn't get the file to download properly ...

Social Media Club Announces Interim Board

The Social Media Club announced today its newly formed interim Board of Directors. The board boasts a roster of highly-regarded industry leaders; a...

3G iPhone Won't Be Easy to Activate

I rarely get into the mix with the A-listers who chase the news, but I happened to be in the Burlingame Apple store this morning, and a nice guy wh...

Recursive

20080705_5031 Originally uploaded by Keturah & J.J. People taking photos of people taking photos. That's me and Ryan Kuder with the camera...

Coastside Tweetup

20080705_5030 Originally uploaded by Keturah & J.J. What a great photo JJ Toothman took of the gang, including his own beautiful family.

Hey Twitter what kind of flower is this?

Hey Twitter what kind of flower is this? Originally uploaded by hardaway I was having lunch with five friends in Half Moon Bay on the outdoor patio...

Enterprise FriendFeed

Was walking the dogs and thinking about Twitter and Friendfeed this morning, wondering whether they are really social applications, or work applica...

Checking In

Last week everyone tried Plurk. Last night we all tried identi.ca.. Last month, it was Brightkite and Friendfeed. It all started with Twitter, and ...

Sunday at Scobleizer's

Sunday at Scobleizer's Originally uploaded by hardawayMilan is standing. No, that's wrong. Milan is about two weeks from walking. He&apos...

Phoenix Country Club Gets its Due

When I was a young mother (before Mommy blogging) I belonged to Phoenix Country Club. Well, I didn't, but my husband did and I got to go along...

Are You Leaking Money the Way I Am?

If you don't regularly look over your credit card and online bank statements, you probably are. And it's incredible how much it was, in m...

Fathers and Sons

In all the posturing and ranting around Web 2,0 and who is the best/worst puppet, Robert Scoble continues to march to his own drummer, taking his f...

Live Blogging the Connections Conference

Did you know there is something called the Multimedia Over Coax Alliance? It’s supposedly the standard for home entertainment networks, and will po...

Full Disclosure

Every once in a while, people ask me what Stealthmode does. Simple: we incubate early stage companies. What does that mean? Well, it can mean many ...

The Healthcare ClueTrain Manifesto

Doc Searls is in the hospital in Boston instead of at SuperNova 2008. I've been following his blog as he goes through his various tests, and e...

The Healthcare ClueTrain Manifesto

Doc Searls is in the hospital in Boston instead of at SuperNova 2008. I've been following his blog as he goes through his various tests, and e...

Tim Russert Knows the Outcome Now

I was just stunned to turn on the car radio yesterday on my way home from the Apple Store and hear Tom Brokaw announcing TIm Russert's death. ...

Tim Russert Knows the Outcome Now

I was just stunned to turn on the car radio yesterday on my way home from the Apple Store and hear Tom Brokaw announcing TIm Russert's death. ...

Reunion 50

I don't go to my college or high school reunions, simply because I went to three universities and a high school. That would be a lot of trying...

Reunion 50

I don't go to my college or high school reunions, simply because I went to three universities and a high school. That would be a lot of trying...

Reunion 50

I don't go to my college or high school reunions, simply because I went to three universities and a high school. That would be a lot of trying...

SF NewTech Meetup

SF NewTech Meetup Originally uploaded by hardaway I was at "Widgets Up the Wazoo" tonight, and if you didn't think the conversation ...

SF NewTech Meetup

SF NewTech Meetup Originally uploaded by hardaway I was at "Widgets Up the Wazoo" tonight, and if you didn't think the conversation ...

Apple WWDC: Enterprise

I'm an adult female sitting in a hotel lobby (I'm not checked into the hotel, but it has comfy chairs and a power outlet nearby) watching...

Apple WWDC: Enterprise

I'm an adult female sitting in a hotel lobby (I'm not checked into the hotel, but it has comfy chairs and a power outlet nearby) watching...

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Union Square Park

Union Square Park Originally uploaded by hardawayWho the heck are all these people who are not at work at 3 PM pm on a Thursday? New York just has ...

Union Square Park

Union Square Park Originally uploaded by hardawayWho the heck are all these people who are not at work at 3 PM pm on a Thursday? New York just has ...

Artists in the Park

Artists in the Park Originally uploaded by hardawayI grew up in New York, and left forty years ago. Now I'm back for the first visit in a long...

Artists in the Park

Artists in the Park Originally uploaded by hardawayI grew up in New York, and left forty years ago. Now I'm back for the first visit in a long...

FFWD Creates Personalized TV Channels

Finally saw a company I want to blog about at "Under the Radar" The founder of this one, FFWD,is the former founder of iLike. He says he ...

FFWD Creates Personalized TV Channels

Finally saw a company I want to blog about at "Under the Radar" The founder of this one, FFWD,is the former founder of iLike. He says he ...

Rest in Peace, Scott Coles

My friend Scott Coles apparently committed suicide yesterday, apparently seeing no way out of the disastrous Arizona mortgage market, in which he w...

Rest in Peace, Scott Coles

My friend Scott Coles apparently committed suicide yesterday, apparently seeing no way out of the disastrous Arizona mortgage market, in which he w...

The Importance of User Experience

I'm not a fan of Adobe the company, because they charge so much for their desktop software, but now I may be a fan of Adobe the provider of we...

The Importance of User Experience

I'm not a fan of Adobe the company, because they charge so much for their desktop software, but now I may be a fan of Adobe the provider of we...

Doc Searls, The Cluetrain Manifesto, and the Call of the Wild Customer

Actually, today I am in Silicon Valley. I'm at The Conversation Group's celebration of the tenth anniversary of "The Cluetrain Manif...

Doc Searls, The Cluetrain Manifesto, and the Call of the Wild Customer

Actually, today I am in Silicon Valley. I'm at The Conversation Group's celebration of the tenth anniversary of "The Cluetrain Manif...

Eating One's Own Dog Food

I have just spent the better part of a day shopping, cooking, and entertaining. There are several problems associated with this use of my time. Fir...

Eating One's Own Dog Food

I have just spent the better part of a day shopping, cooking, and entertaining. There are several problems associated with this use of my time. Fir...

Google Health Causes Controversy

I have been waiting forever for Google Health. When it launched yesterday I immediately created a profile and linked it to my Walgreen's presc...

Google Health Causes Controversy

I have been waiting forever for Google Health. When it launched yesterday I immediately created a profile and linked it to my Walgreen's presc...

Race in America: What Hillary Couldn't Say

What I have come to realize over the past few weeks, as Hillary Clinton continued to garner support from large segments of the American people, is ...

Race in America: What Hillary Couldn't Say

What I have come to realize over the past few weeks, as Hillary Clinton continued to garner support from large segments of the American people, is ...

Identity Theft or Data Portability

Whoa, Nellie. I have never heard Robert Scoble get angry before. But this morning, as I prepared to have my weekly laugh with The Gillmor Gang on t...

Here Comes Summer!

I'm getting ready to shift my location to Half Moon Bay for the summer. I leave at the end of next week, and stay until the day after Labor Da...

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Stowe Boyd says it Best

Stealthmode operates in mysterious ways: we don't get paid for a lot of the stuff we do, we don't take (much) money and/or equity from th...

Major Real Estate Developer Talks History

It's lunch in a Scottsdale restaurant. The attendees are mainly retired scions of industry, professionals, and business. I came because the gr...

Donated Screen Printing Equipment Goes to Work

Paul shows one of the screens used to print T-shirts Originally uploaded by Blackerby Associates The Tumbleweed program is so phenomenal; I'm ...

Tumbleweed T-shirt printing business takes off

Francine Hardaway displays the finished T-shirt; Cameron looks on Originally uploaded by Blackerby Associates We've (my Foundation and my part...

Seesmic, Twhirl, and The Gillmor Gang (with Love, Grandma)

The rant that follows is offered with incredible love and respect, though some irony. We were big on irony in the Sixties. I am a faithful listener...

Breaking the Bank

I've been involved (and invested) in the formation of a new bank holding company for a while now. It's time for a new bank, because the e...

Are We in a Depression? Or is it Just Spring?

I know what a Depression is. It's when things look bad even when they may be good. I'm going to try to capture some of my mood on paper t...

No More Moving for Good School Districts

For the last ten years, Ted Kraver and I and a small group of others have been talking about the game-changing effect on education that will be bro...

Which Candidate Can Get Us Out of This Mess? None of Them

'm up here in the Bay Area this week, having (or is it "taking") some meetings, attending Web 2.0 Expo, and doing some other busines...

Which Candidate Can Get Us Out of This Mess? None of Them

'm up here in the Bay Area this week, having (or is it "taking") some meetings, attending Web 2.0 Expo, and doing some other busines...

@SamLawrence's Sponsored Wheelchair

photo.jpg Originally uploaded by hardaway Just came out of the panel on "Short Attention Spans," i.e. microblogging, at Web 2.0 Expo and ...

@SamLawrence's Sponsored Wheelchair

photo.jpg Originally uploaded by hardaway Just came out of the panel on "Short Attention Spans," i.e. microblogging, at Web 2.0 Expo and ...

Earth Day at Cunha's

Earth day at Cunha's Originally uploaded by hardaway Just something I happened to see at the grocery store in Half Moon Bay today, while Earth...

Earth Day at Cunha's

Earth day at Cunha's Originally uploaded by hardaway Just something I happened to see at the grocery store in Half Moon Bay today, while Earth...

To What Do I Give My Valuable Attention?

Setting the Stage:I'm on the bike at the gym, and everyone around me has an iPod. It's a pretty middle class gym in the desert, and my fe...

To What Do I Give My Valuable Attention?

Setting the Stage:I'm on the bike at the gym, and everyone around me has an iPod. It's a pretty middle class gym in the desert, and my fe...

What Every Geek Should Know: The REAL Digital Divide

Fellow geeks, we live in a dream world -- a world of Twitter-Twhirl-Friendfeed-AlertThingy-Seesmic. And if you think most people reading this can i...

What Every Geek Should Know: The REAL Digital Divide

Fellow geeks, we live in a dream world -- a world of Twitter-Twhirl-Friendfeed-AlertThingy-Seesmic. And if you think most people reading this can i...

Earth Day at Earth911

At Earth911.com, Earth Day is referred to as Christmas. Why? Because it is the day when resources are most necessary as traffic to the site soars. ...

Earth Day at Earth911

At Earth911.com, Earth Day is referred to as Christmas. Why? Because it is the day when resources are most necessary as traffic to the site soars. ...

"Green Scorpion" Incident Tests Crisis Software

I'm watching a crisis planning exercise called "Green Scorpion" happening in real time at the ESS EXPO 2008. In this exercise, peopl...

"Green Scorpion" Incident Tests Crisis Software

I'm watching a crisis planning exercise called "Green Scorpion" happening in real time at the ESS EXPO 2008. In this exercise, peopl...

The Wide Reach of REACH

REACH is a new standard and regulatory framework for environmental, health and safety characteristics of any chemical. All manufaturers of substanc...

The Wide Reach of REACH

REACH is a new standard and regulatory framework for environmental, health and safety characteristics of any chemical. All manufaturers of substanc...

LiveBlogging the ESS Expo

Simon Jacobson from AMR is delivering the keynote at the ESS Expo 2008. Remarkably, he is talking about Web 2.0 used in the enterprise and architec...

LiveBlogging the ESS Expo

Simon Jacobson from AMR is delivering the keynote at the ESS Expo 2008. Remarkably, he is talking about Web 2.0 used in the enterprise and architec...

Erin Kotecki Vest: Elitist My Ass

This former Midwest girl is telling you Obama is not being 'elite' or 'out of touch' -he could NOT be MORE in touch. read more ...

Erin Kotecki Vest: Elitist My Ass

This former Midwest girl is telling you Obama is not being 'elite' or 'out of touch' -he could NOT be MORE in touch. read more ...

Here's Why I Love Having my Own Blog

I just posted this comment to Tyme's blog, but I was the 102nd commentor.I was asleep when this blew up. Who will ever see my comment? So here...

Practicing Disaster

In case you think safety is not a big issue globally, let me tell you about ESS' user EXPO2008, which starts on Sunday. ESS is a client of min...

Pardon My French

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Complications of Shel Israel and Loren Feldman's Flap

I was just going to leave this as a comment on Social Times, but my thought process got too complex (part of the fun of being old is the ability to...

YouTube Exposes What America Really Thinks

This is a pretty funny video. And it has been viewed over 5 million times. The 19,000 comments include everything from a guy who says Bible code re...

Blooming bottle brush tree

Blooming bottle brush tree Originally uploaded by hardaway Every once in a while, Phoenix has one of those perfect days, and Mark Salustro and I we...

Blogging Causes Death: Like Life

What a ridiculous postulation, that blogging can "cause" death. The New York Times must have nothing better to investigate. It is terribl...

Inner and Outer Beauty

Beauty products are a big market. I can tell this because I am sent huge color press kits with every sample I get to try in my role as beauty blogg...

Web 2.0 Makes a Global Village

Here's a wonderful use for Web 2.0. My friend's daughter is working for a Shanghai-based company called ITalki, which helps people learn ...

Chris Pirillo Live No More - 1 April

Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes Chris and Ponzi had a fight, and Chris won't be live streaming anymore. Psychologists h...

Michael Lacey's Speech to the ACLU Dinner

SELMA TIME Good evening ladies and gentlemen. My partner, Jim Larkin, and I were arrested in mid-October after writing about the secret grand jury ...

Village Voice Media Owners Get Civil Liberties Award

You can imagine how sparsely attended the ACLU dinner is in Arizona. I never put a dress on anymore over the weekend if I can help it, but I had to...

Avoiding Email Bankruptcy

Many of my friends admit that they are overwhelmed by the volume of email they get. Indeed, Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang has looked into this ...

Twitter Has Changed my Life

Time to write about Twitter, which has changed my life. Robert Scoble has written a sophisticated post about how he uses Twitter today, but he&apos...

My Friend Reuben

Reuben doesn't think this feels like a Depression. And he should know. He's a serial entrepreneur. Reuben started a packaging business, v...

Setting Fire to the Resume Pile

I've been telling all the young people who ask me to read their resumes or hold on to their resumes "in case you see something" the ...

Setting Fire to the Resume Pile

I've been telling all the young people who ask me to read their resumes or hold on to their resumes "in case you see something" the ...

It's Always the Economy, Stupid

This was Bill Clinton's slogan in 1992, and it's the slogan again today, although no one seems to be using it. No major candidate seems t...

Heart Broken

One of my former foster kids is pregnant. Yes, she's 23 and not a teen-ager. But she also dropped out of school after 8th grade and has never ...

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Another Hillary Get Out Rant

Hillary Get Out (From a Feminist)

In which Queen of Spain and I urge Hillary to get out because she's not a woman and doesn't bring the specific skill sets of a woman to t...

@genuine

@genuine Originally uploaded by hardaway The greatest part of SXSW for me has been meeting the people I talk to all day on Twitter. I've met Q...

More Cool Swag

Swag Originally uploaded by hardaway This was being given out by R/GA, an interactive ad agency opening an office in the Bay Area. It's wheatg...

Unusual Conference Swag

Swag Originally uploaded by hardaway So these are finger monsters, and they are being given away by 99 Directions, a social media marketing company...

The New Marketing:The Economy of Free

I knew I'd only get to liveblog once at SXSW, because it's such an intense conference, so I chose to liveblog one about the new ways of m...

Zuckerberg at SXSW

Line for Google party

Line for Google party Originally uploaded by hardaway So after walking 12,895 steps today I am back in my room. We stood in line for a while for th...

Lunch at Ironworks

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Shot in Bombay

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War in the DNA

If you click through to this small Flash representation of history in the Middle East, you will easily understand why we are at war there, and why ...

Lawsuit Over User-generated Reviews : Fair?

What do you do when you run a site that is composed of user-generated reviews and one company, whose products get bad reviews, begins to spam your ...

2 Stylists WIldly Try to Whip Me into Shape

I'm going to two conferences next week, Health 2.0 in San Diego, and SXSW in Austin. So I feel it's imperative to look my best (meaning, ...

Knightsbridge Capital

Brett Wilson, CEO of TubeMogul, is speaking at the Knightsbridge Capital Conference. The gentleman on my left, a major partner in the fund, does no...

LiveBlogging the Wallstripper

Howard Lindzon, Wallstrip co-founder, is hosting all his buddies at a conference in Scottsdale in February on a Friday. Howard has a fund, Knightsb...

How Do You Build an Online Community

Do you belong to any online communities, and if so, what are they and why do you find them useful? Online communities are not as easy to form as yo...

Google Will Map Your Health Record

The New York Times has an article this morning about Google's pilot program with The Cleveland Clinic to store 1500 health records. Apparently...

Sharper Image's Bankruptcy Mirrors Hillary's Losses

First let me tell you that I know nothing about retail. And then let me tell you that I used to be a customer of Sharper Image, but haven't be...

Rocky, Scoble's producer, "protects" the first Tesla

Rocky, my producer, "protects" the first Tesla Originally uploaded by Robert Scoble Everyone knows all about Robert Scoble, but really th...

Social Media: With a Little Help from my Friends

So I'm leading the Social Media Club Phoenix meeting tonight, and we are planning to discuss how you monetize social media. Chris Pirillo is o...