Saturday, December 31, 2005

Happy New Year!


IMG_0856.JPG, originally uploaded by eesley.

As the sun sets on another year, I wish all my loyal blog readers a Happy New Year!

I'm currently out in Woodside, CA for the month, spending new year's eve with my good friend Kim and enjoying the warm weather!

Looking forward to seeing Natalie, Eric, Kristin, Ali, Kelan, Meera and all my other good friends who are in the Bay area!

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Finals are over!


77 mass ave, originally uploaded by mitwalter.

Had my last final (game theory) this afternoon. So glad to have a break from MIT. Though I will miss it I'm sure. Two days to relax and enjoy Cambridge and then I fly back to Marietta on the 23rd until the 29th for a reunion with family and friends. I'll be offline during that time. I fly out to CA Dec. 30th.

In other news, my paper was accepted at the Babson Entrepreneurship Conference in Indiana for June 2006!

Blogging article

The column I was asked to write by an MIT alumni publication ran today.

Check it out. Here's an excerpt:

"Fundamentally, blogs are part of a larger, ongoing trend in society that recognizes that true creativity in any area, whether it's in culture or technology, thrives when the power to innovate is distributed to people who will use it, care about it, and consume it. MIT Professor Eric Von Hippel articulates this view most clearly in his book Democratizing Innovation. Those who are starting to grasp this are creating easy-to-use tools to allow users to be the entrepreneurs and innovators of content and culture. Letting users innovate by providing them with new tools allows the emergence of applications and content that the tool makers might never have dreamed of creating."