5 posts and columns on Jim Steyer

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Commission’s Assignment: Find Best Uses for Tech in Schools

in News on March 15 at 12:01 pm PT

In response to a challenge from the FCC and the Department of Education, a group of experts has formed the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission to look for the best ways that technology can be used in the classroom. The commission members — Columbia University President Lee Bollinger, TPG Capital’s James Coulter, former Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer — will survey current practices and come up with an action blueprint near the end of the year.

From the Department of the Obvious: Poll Finds Parents Are Worried About Privacy on Social Networks

in News on October 8, 2010 at 12:10 am PT

A national poll released today by Common Sense Media asking how well social networks protect kids online produced an answer that should come as a shock to exactly no one: Not very well, at least according to parents. A full 75 percent of them gave social networking sites such as Facebook a negative rating for the task.

Author Ken Auletta Talks About Google and Its "Lack of Emotional Intelligence"

in News on November 12, 2009 at 12:50 am PT

Guess what? Google has too many Spocks and not enough Captain Kirks. This is one of the many interesting insights BoomTown gleaned from a video interview last night at a San Francisco book party for well-known New Yorker scribe Ken Auletta, who has just written a new book, “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It.” This “lack of emotional intelligence,” said Auletta, reminded him a lot of the subject of one of his previous books: Microsoft. Oh, the delicious irony!
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Kara Visits "The Future of the Internet" Book Party!

in News on May 12, 2008 at 10:00 am PT

This past Saturday night, BoomTown attended the tony San Francisco book party for Jonathan Zittrain’s new book, “The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It.” It was hosted by megablogger Arianna Huffington and Melanie Ellison, an old friend of Zittrain’s from high school, as it turned out. And BoomTown took our Flip video camera, of course!
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