What New Media Means to Me
For me, the Internet is less about the technology and the codes behind it (though, I highly respect the beauty in both the front and back-end of any product, even though I don’t know how it all works… and I also highly respect the people who bring them to life)… *I digress*… for me it is about connecting on a deeper level, crossing boundaries of geography and background, and getting things done.
Studying the Shadows from Startup Weekend DC
To apply this same methodology, the blog posts, WaPo article, and comments from Startup Weekend are in fact a shadow being cast for us — in the DC area — and for the rest of the country, for that matter, to read as an emerging body of energy, ideas and entrepreneurism. They tell the story.
Education, not war.
I do know that education, hope, and engagement are far more empowering and “preventional” than any band-aid approaches that require guns, killing and destruction.