It’s somehow fitting that last night, as I was researching a bunch of articles about Texas Republican Lamar Smith’s latest attempt to stifle the freedom of speech that we have been given in the US Constitution that the blockbuster movie, Enemy of the State (starring Will Smith, Jon Voight, and Gene Hackman) aired on TV. The premise behind this movie is that a member of Congress, wants to push through a privacy bill that a Senator will not vote against, thus blocking its passage. What it would do is invade the …

Last week was the first annual Mobile Work Week in San Francisco and it was organized by the co-working space finder, Liquidspace. During this week-long event, participants had the opportunity to learn more about the co-working phenomenon and just how beneficial it is to not only the entrepreneur, but also other businesses and even local cities.
It all kicked off with a co-working “crawl” throughout San Francisco. Starting at Carr Workplace, event organizers brought Santa Cruz Mayor Ryan Coonerty to speak about the effect co-working has had on his city. While …

Over the past few days, there’s been a quiet rumbling taking place in the halls of the United States Congress and it’s getting louder. Our elected leaders have felt that it was their responsibility to do something that most of the real experts would have thought unreasonable: they wanted to censor the Internet. No, they didn’t use the word “censor” because that would be infringe on our rights as Americans. But they did put together some rather asinine bill that’s called the Stop Online Piracy Act and it is being aggressively …

The world of business has drastically changed with the introduction of technology. No longer are businesses in control of their message. We all know that. Control has gone out the window. Sure, we all know that technology like social media has given a voice to the customer, but simply being on social networks like Twitter, Facebook, or Google+ isn’t enough. It’s starting to be more about just having a page and occasionally answering questions that people post on there. We know that there’s so much noise out there and lots of …