Category Archives: Events

Benoit Mandelbrot, Yale professor and inventor of fractal geometry and the Mandelbrot Set, will be speaking at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on August 19 at 6 p.m. Mandelbrot’s new book, The Mis-Behavior of Markets, applies fractal theory to financial markets. Should be an interesting event!…

Scoble is organizing a Silicon Valley Geek Lunch today at Buck’s of Woodside at noon if you are in the area and would like to attend. There will probably be a small group, and that worked well last time….

Tonight was the Corporate Blogger’s Dinner. The attendees, starting to my right: Don Park Jay Fienberg Rauno Saarinen John Dowdell Russell Beattie Phil Stanhope Venture Frogs had a strong wireless Internet signal. The conversation did not focus on corporations or weblogging but instead flowed, as it should, from one topic to the next. I learned that Microsoft showed off some new mobile weblogging software today at Mobile DevCon. Rodney Brooks has a robot summer camp for kids. We also discussed the weblog echo chamber, what do readers expect, do we care about those expectations, and what are the next big…

Tomorrow night, Wednesday, at 7 P.M. is the Corporate Blogger’s Dinner at Venture Frogs in San Francisco. I view corporate blogging as a marketing tool to a user base in search of something more trustworthy than a PR spin. Mark Cuban’s blog is corporate blogging. Why? It makes you more interested in the Mavericks. You fee involved, part of the action. Even if you have never been to a NBA game. How do you put a face and a name to a product people love or will grow to love? Weblogs help establish a community around your product(s) or company…

Robert Scoble and Ross Mayfield put together a geek dinner tonight at the Palo Alto Cheesecake Factory. We all braved the rain and even as our party grew from 8 to 12 to 20 we still were able to stay as one long table. Below is a list of all attendees, approximately in the order they were sitting, starting to my left. Niall KennedyScott RaferPeter KaminskiPatrick ScobleAlex ScobleGretchen HundlingCourtney PatuboLisa CanterMarc CanterMimi CanterAndy RuffSteve SloanRoss MayfieldMike MasnickMark FinnernWendy SeltzerEnoch ChoiRobert ScobleMaryam ScobleTantek…