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What’s On Your Tech Wishlist?

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — As the holidays approach, I asked some well-known folks in government, tech, media, and business what consumer technology they were dreaming about receiving as gifts. Here’s what they said. Angie Goff, NBC Washington anchor and tech blogger (Washington, DC): “I’m dying for a USB Typewriter for iPad (pictured right)… There’s just ... Read more »

Build A Turntable.fm For Education

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — The Next Web recently posted an article titled, Why Turntable.fm is the most exciting social service of the year. Turntable.fm is new, hip, press-shy, and earning word-of-mouth on hot tech blogs like GigaOm and TechCrunch and Betabeat (NY Observer). The founders are based near Union Square in New York City, ... Read more »

Why Are You Still Waiting For Superman?

Cameron Evans (Irving, TX) — When it debuted, Waiting for Superman received a lot of buzz. A documentary about failures in the American educational system told through the lives of a number of individual students, it forced people to question a host of inter-related issues. At the same time, controversial local education reformers like Washington, ... Read more »