A time-honored format for sports commentary is the two-person team. The sportscaster who calls the game play-by-play is usually a glib professional journalist with encyclopedic knowledge of the sport, the players and the league, bringing insight and analysis to the action unfolding on the field. The color commentator is a veteran player who regales the audience with war stories, folksy anecdotes and simple but hard-earned wisdom culled from hundreds of days on the field and thousands of hours in practice. Well executed, this combination makes for an entertaining broadcast that keeps the audience engaged for three hours at a time.
My goal in publishing Techlexica is to serve as both primary sportscaster and color commentator. As a business lawyer and executive in social media and the broader technology industry, I hope to bring the factual background and analytical tools of the profession to bear to explore some of the most interesting current issues in business, law and public policy. As a prolific user, consumer and content creator in social computing and other information technology since the early 1980s; an “alumnus” of several high-profile (and not-so-high profile) consumer Web and entertainment companies; and a Silicon Valley native who delivered newspapers on Steve Jobs‘ block and lived in a house once owned by Bill Hewlett, I will also weave in some war stories, anecdotes, and hopefully a bit of accumulated wisdom that might prove useful. Continue Reading