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In November of 2012, I participated in the Social Media & Beyond event in Abu Dhabi, sponsored by the Sheikha Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation. The forum consisted of Chris Brogan, myself, and the co-founder of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian. Chris spoke about digital tribes, I spoke about Twitter and iOSDevCamp, and Alexis spoke about […]

Worcester, MA: Becker College, May 14, 2012. Candidates for the Class of 2012, it is a distinct honor for me to address you all today. I grew up not far from here in a little town called Lynnfield just north of Boston, so this is very much home to me and your welcome means a […]

@Errand — Dom Sagolla (@dom) March 22, 2006 — Dom Sagolla (@dom) March 22, 2006 On Twitter’s first day, pretty much all you could do was send messages and receive them. There were no username links to the @ sign then. For my tenth tweet (#83), I used “@” as a contraction to say “at […]

I’ve been selected to receive the first International Genius travel grant from the City of Amsterdam and the Appsterdam Foundation.  In recognition of your steller career and continued contributions to the advancement of technology. I’m deeply humbled by this opportunity, and I plan to seek the utmost potential and set a pattern for other interesting […]

I sat (and skateboarded) for the British Broadcasting Company at my house in San Francisco. We talked about Odeo, Twitter, my company DollarApp, and our community iOSDevCamp. See a brief excerpt here: “I discovered that you can be a new type of writer in this tiny space.” See the interview in full at BBC News.

What you’re holding in your hands is a set of guidelines. A collection of protocols which describe an approach to another protocol, something we call Twitter. The amazing thing about this particular protocol is that it’s being defined daily. By you. Twitter was inspired by the concepts of immediacy, transparency, and approachability, and created by […]

View “Tweets per Capita” on Slideshare. The Worldwide Congress on Information Technology takes place this week in Amsterdam, Netherlands. As part of my participation, I was asked to deliver a keynote speech on Inclusion. The following research is not comprehensive, but is meant to explore  a new metric for technological and cultural progress. I took […]

[Published in Het Financieele Dagblad, the Dutch financial times, on the opening day of WCIT 2010 in Amsterdam.] A shadow economy controls all of the systems of monetary influence in the world. This system derives value from sharing wealth, in the form of information. It is the economy of words, metered by our attention. This […]

The following is an excerpt from 140 Characters, page 9. There’s the story you wanna tell, and the story a reporter wants to hear, and somewhere in between is the story that gets told. –@realizing Real reporting can take place within social networks. There are two key principles to remember. First: Public Twitter and Facebook […]

Excerpt from 140 Characters: A Style Guide for the Short Form, page 18. How many microscopic adjustments are made to a sculpture before it is complete? How many stitches go into a fine garment? This is the level of awareness you must achieve: down to the individual character. ! –case Judge your simplicity by skimming […]