What was White House Director of New Media Macon Phillips doing on a conference stage at 4 PM Eastern today, hours before President Obama's pivotal address to Congress on healthcare reform? Good question, lobbed by old media celeb Kojo Nnamdi (at R in pic). Kojo was interviewing Macon before an audience of 300 or so at the end of Day 1 of the Gov 2.0 Summit. "Well this is the place to be," Macon replied. "The President makes a lot of speeches

If you're wondering who writes Chris Anderson's tweets, now that his new book, FREE, has hit the New York Times bestseller list, the answer is: he does. "No minions, @chr1sa is me," he told me in a Q & A. Anderson, longtime editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine and author of The LongTail, is keynoting the upcoming GrowSmartBiz conference in D.C. (Sept. 29th). I asked him how a price of $0.00 would play with a small biz audience concerned about

Mashable COO Adam Hirsch has been pouring energy into the Summer of Social Good campaign since he began organizing it in January 2009. In just four days this unique online fundraising effort - built around the velocity and reach of social media - culminates with the Social Good Conference in NYC (Aug. 28, 2009). Tickets are still available, BTW, and 100 percent of sales go towards the four charities benefiting from the campaign. As of

This was the best photo I took at Open Government and Innovation. Note the slide behind Vivek Kundra showing Pres. Obama looking at the newly-launched (and very cool) Federal IT Dashboard.

I’ll post a blog write-up soon.

My grand plans to live blog Open Government and Innovation dwindled within minutes when I saw two Twitter boards behind the speakers displaying the live Twitter stream for hashtag #ogi. Live crowdsourcing is mesmerizing. Trends are quickly visible. Insights are captured. Judgments about speaker's presos are instantly rendered.