#MeToo — It Doesn’t Only Happen to Women
Originally published on Medium.com The recent avalanche of #MeToo recollections has kicked me back in time to my salad days, more tha...
22nd October 2017
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“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
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My articles as originally published by CNBC.com, Inc. Magazine, SFGate.com, Harvard Business School Publishing, and others…
Two Big Reasons for Hope: The Platform Cooperative Consortium Lights Up The Commons.
We have just entered a period of potentially enormous social turmoil. But like the 1960’s, this new season of social angst and struggle co...
24th January 2017
Five Bold New Progressive Ideas for California’s Next U.S. Senate Race
If you want to read the five ideas first, skip to the Five Ideas heading below. If you want to know why I wrote this, start here: The...
2nd December 2016
The Fast-Growing Academic Conference — That Shouldn’t Be Happening in the First Place.
The annual Open Education Conference, which is coming up again next month, may be the world’s fastest-growing academic meeting. Scheduled ...
5th October 2016
A Funnie [sic] Letter from Textbook Publishers to California’s Governor
The Association of American Publishers, which represents college textbook publishers, just wrote an inadvertently funny letter to Calif...
29th March 2016
Who Owns Digital Learning Resources Funded by Taxpayers?
Everyone wants to be a successful venture capitalist. That’s the conclusion I draw from written protests lodged with the U.S. Department o...
3rd March 2016
Here’s How Open Academic Tests Would Work
We should modernize how we approach testing in our public schools and colleges. Think about flight simulators. When U.S. Navy instructors tr...
23rd May 2015
An Open Educational Resources Agenda for President Obama
In a previous post, I expressed my dismay that President Obama and Vice President Biden have allowed their administration’s victory on...
17th April 2015
Cold Comfort: $10 Billion Dollars Later LA Times Says I Got it Right
Today’s LA Times carries a major expose on President Reagan’s so-called Star Wars program, which I first investigated nearly 30 ...
5th April 2015
Rootstrikers: Building a New Operating System for Leaders
One thing that gets me really excited is when someone demonstrates how leadership can happen in the age of the Internet. I don’t know ...
20th February 2015
You Talkin to Me?
One of the best parts of the last five years was the chance I had to travel around the country and even around the world on occasion represe...
20th February 2015
Thank you, Martha Kanter
It’s been nearly six years since I blogged regularly. But before I can get started again, I have to do something first. Which is to th...
20th February 2015
Weintraub Cites Kenworthy’s Work on Income-Inequality
My cousin, sociologist Jeff Weintraub, just forwarded a highly informative post, must reading, excerpting the work of his friend, Lane Kenwo...
2nd February 2015
What I Really Want to Say
#MeToo — It Doesn’t Only Happen to Women
Originally published on Medium.com The recent avalanche of #MeToo recollections has kicked me back in time to my salad days, more tha...
22 October, 2017
Two Big Reasons for Hope: The Platform Cooperative Consortium Lights Up The Commons.
We have just entered a period of potentially enormous social turmoil. But like the 1960’s, this new season of social angst and struggle coul...
24 January, 2017
Five Bold New Progressive Ideas for California’s Next U.S. Senate Race
If you want to read the five ideas first, skip to the Five Ideas heading below. If you want to know why I wrote this, start here: The...
02 December, 2016
The Fast-Growing Academic Conference — That Shouldn’t Be Happening in the First Place.
The annual Open Education Conference, which is coming up again next month, may be the world’s fastest-growing academic meeting. Scheduled th...
05 October, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s Big Jobs Mistake
Hillary Clinton’s statement today about jobs and the economy, which she made during her first stop as the presidential nominee of the Democr...
29 July, 2016
Governor Jerry Brown’s Huge Gift to California Community College Students: Free Textbooks
Earlier this week, California Governor Jerry Brown did something that will put thousands of dollars into the pockets of California community...
30 June, 2016
Introducing SLAVER — New iPhone App
Silicon Valley is buzzing today over the release of SLAVER(tm), a new iPhone app that promises to bring back slavery with greater convenienc...
21 April, 2016
A Funnie [sic] Letter from Textbook Publishers to California’s Governor
The Association of American Publishers, which represents college textbook publishers, just wrote an inadvertently funny letter to Calif...
29 March, 2016Who Owns Digital Learning Resources Funded by Taxpayers?
Everyone wants to be a successful venture capitalist. That’s the conclusion I draw from written protests lodged with the U.S. Department of ...
03 March, 2016
What a Real “Skills Gap” Looks Like
At last, we have evidence of a skills gap (shoemaking)! I had to clip this ad that ran today in our local daily newspaper, the Palo Alto Pos...
11 February, 2016
Making Open Education History In Mexico at the 2015 OGP Meeting
One of the best things about having been a member of the Obama administration was the chance it gave me to see history unfold close up. For ...
24 October, 2015
Here’s How Open Academic Tests Would Work
We should modernize how we approach testing in our public schools and colleges. Think about flight simulators. When U.S. Navy instructors tr...
23 May, 2015
Still Worth Reading
Hillary Clinton’s Big Jobs Mistake
Hillary Clinton’s statement today about jobs and the economy, which she made during her first stop as the presidential nominee of the Democr...
29 July, 2016
Governor Jerry Brown’s Huge Gift to California Community College Students: Free Textbooks
Earlier this week, California Governor Jerry Brown did something that will put thousands of dollars into the pockets of California community...
30 June, 2016
What a Real “Skills Gap” Looks Like
At last, we have evidence of a skills gap (shoemaking)! I had to clip this ad that ran today in our local daily newspaper, the Palo Alto Pos...
11 February, 2016Here’s How Open Academic Tests Would Work
We should modernize how we approach testing in our public schools and colleges. Think about flight simulators. When U.S. Navy instructors tr...
23 May, 2015
The Truth About U.S. vs. Foreign Corporate Tax Rates
Few things upset me more than the free pass many media outlets give to people who say things that are just not true. In many cases, these un...
22 December, 2014
My First Ever Post on the White House Blog
Excerpted from New Job-Training and Education Grants Program Launched. “Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and Secretary of Education Arne...
22 December, 2014
Who Will Protect California’s Students?
At the precise moment when government agencies should be using available technologies to lower costs and increase access to high quality edu...
01 July, 2011
Bring Back Usury Laws To Hasten Economic Recovery
February 26, 2009 My previous posts on the credit crisis have been getting so many hits I’ll weigh in on that topic again with a brief...
26 February, 2009
Lost Causes and Other Necessary Deeds
Here’s How Open Academic Tests Would Work
We should modernize how we approach testing in our public schools and colleges. Think about flight simulators. When U.S. Navy instructors tr...
23 May, 2015Cold Comfort: $10 Billion Dollars Later LA Times Says I Got it Right
Today’s LA Times carries a major expose on President Reagan’s so-called Star Wars program, which I first investigated nearly 30 ...
05 April, 2015
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gives Innovation Grant to ReelChanges!
Some great news to report about something we’ve been working on for months. Today, we received the official word that it is okay to an...
05 December, 2008
Feds Bailout Obsolete Banking Business Model
And while I am it there is another thing that really bothers me about the current federal government bailout of the banking sector. Financia...
25 November, 2008
Money for Citibank?
I bet I am not the only person cheering this week at the news that the nation’s largest credit card company, Citibank, may soon go bro...
22 November, 2008
How to End the Credit Crunch
The scariest thing about the current global economic crisis is the look of uncertainty and sometimes even panic in the eyes of many of those...
16 November, 2008
Junk Media
I’ve been thinking a lot about Junk Media lately. I even thought I might have coined the term until I learned that Ed R. Taylor, among...
13 December, 2007
Santa Clara County Health Benefits Coalition Organizing Meeting Set
Earlier this month, County Supervisor Jim Beall and I sent written invitations to the leadership of every public agency in our County, inclu...
04 February, 2005
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Silicon Valley Correspondent for CNBC.com from the day it went online in 1999 until Microsoft assumed control over the site in 2001
I’ve written more than two dozen articles for Inc. magazine and its quarterly supplement, Inc. Technology, over the years
I wrote the Tech BEAT column for the San Francisco Chronicle’s website, SFgate.com, from August 1998 until December 2002
I wore many different hats at the San Jose-based weekly Metro newspaper for more than ten years, including serving as news and politics editor, and author of the paper's regular Public Eye Columns.
I was honored to be invited to write a series of short papers for Harvard Business School Publishing from 1998 - 2002.
An ongoing, annotated collection of links to clippings, letters and documents regarding my work as a journalist and social activist.