Esther Dyson

Tweets of the Week: From Russia With Tweets

Lauren Goode, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 1, 2010 at 12:58 am PT

Some of this week’s biggest tech-industry tweets came not from Silicon Valley but from Russia. “Rustechdel”–for Russian Tech Delegation–was hash-tagged by people like Twitter Co-founder Jack Dorsey, start-up investor Esther Dyson and actor Ashton Kutcher, who joined the U.S. State Department technology delegation in Moscow for a week of extolling the benefits of social media to Russians.

Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff: How to Make Money While Music Becomes “Demonetized”

Peter Kafka in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 9:31 am PT

As a longtime music executive and talent manager, Irving Azoff has had to find a way to work with everyone from inebriated rock stars to David Geffen. But he’s never had to placate Washington, D.C. before. But that’s what Azoff needs to do in order to pull off the deal of a lifetime: A merger between his Ticketmaster Entertainment, which dominates the ticketing business, and Live Nation, which dominates the live concert business. When Azoff isn’t busy trying to convince people that the merger doesn’t violate antitrust regulations, or running his ticketing company, he manages the careers of everyone from the Eagles to Christina Aguilera. Note the one thing in the music business he doesn’t spend time on: Selling recorded music.

A Techtastically Busy Week: A Grab Bag of Digital Stuff to Consider

Kara Swisher in News on May 11, 2009 at 6:31 am PT

It’s another packed week for tech, especially in Silicon Valley, where the kibitzing never ends and the econalypse is almost completely ignored. As if you did not have enough to do, what with all that pointless tweeting, here are some choices for those who want a little analog action, including watching me annoy Facebook’s chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly, who is also trying to become California’s next Attorney General.

Back to the Future: How the New York Times Saw the Web in 1995

Peter Kafka in Media on March 20, 2009 at 7:43 am PT

New York Times chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. may not have figured out how his paper can adapt to the Web age yet. But give him credit: He’s been thinking about the idea for more than a decade.