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Last weekend, nearly 200 women and men gathered for the Women Entrepreneurs (WE) Festival at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. The event was hosted by the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), a graduate-level program in alternative media encouraging creative innovations in communications technologies.With the goal of fostering a community of established and aspiring female entrepreneurs, conference attendees explored creative solutions to the unique challenges facing women in business and technology while celebrating the achievements of those women.More...

Source: Most Inspirational Tweets From The Women Entrepreneurs Festival

In the middle of the fourth quarter of Houston's win over Memphis on Saturday night, Rockets coach Rick Adelman took backup guard Aaron Brooks out of the game.Instead of taking a seat on the bench, Brooks took the substitution personally and walked straight to the locker room without being injured.More...

Source: Aaron Brooks Suspended: Rockets Suspend 6th Man For Walking Off Court

Foursquare's Super Bowl Sunday experiment is underway and the check-ins are coming in fast.Approximately 30 minutes before kickoff, the geo-based social networking service had received more than 30,000 check-ins for "Super Bowl Sunday." It encouraged users to shout "Go Packers!" or "Go Steelers!" along with the check-in to receive a special team badge.More...

Source: Foursquare's 'Super Bowl Sunday' Venue Passes 200,000 Check-Ins

Kara Swisher called into NPR Monday morning and said that AOL's acquisition of the Huffington Post proves that news is a valuable business area."The Huffington Post is very good at creating a very exciting aggregation play in news, and they've started to do original journalism on the site," she said.  "What [the deal] does say is that news is an exciting area and it always will be. It just depends on how it's going to be distributed."More...

Source: Kara Swisher: HuffPost-AOL Deal Means 'News Is An Exciting Area And It Always Will Be' (AUDIO)

eSpace, the Boulder business incubator for space entrepreneurs, is looking for a half dozen new companies to launch into Colorado's growing space industry.Part of the Center for Space Entrepreneurship, the incubator was started in 2009 by the University of Colorado at Boulder and Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Space Systems Group in Louisville. This week, it opened its third round of recruiting for prospective entrants to the space business.More...

Source: Space Entrepreneurs Wanted

I paused when I read the playwright Matthew Lopez refer to himself in The New York Times as a "foxhole Episcopalian."Not that the expression was hard to parse but I hope he didn't say it apologetically, as in "I don't ever darken the door of a church unless something's going terribly wrong." If that's so, what's so wrong with that? Foxhole faith can be mighty powerful and foxhole prayers are some of the richest kind we make.More...

Source: Foxhole Faith: The Value Of Prayer When We Are Vulnerable

As the myths about him grow larger, a new documentary from HBO, called "Reagan," takes a look at the "deeply misunderstood legacy" of late President Ronald Reagan on Monday night.Airing at 9 pm EST, the documentary, director Eugene Jarecki promises to "get behind the sort of shallow presentation of him that has sort of come to dominate in the mainstream media," as he told The Hill.More...

Source: Ronald Reagan Documentary: HBO Film Features President At 100 (VIDEO)

WASHINGTON -- The days of newspapers serving up just "meat and potatoes" are over and it is essential for journalists to serve a "buffet" of content, says Chris Cillizza, The Washington Post  political editor/blogger and video personality.  He likens the essential offerings of media to an exotic and bountiful 3:00 a.m. dinner buffet in Las Vegas.More...

Source: Washington Post's Chris Cillizza Advice to Journos: Serve a Bounty of Content, Like a Late Night Las Vegas Buffet

For anyone who happens to be a restaurant owner, current/former waiter or consumer of the culinary arts, the art of tipping is almost as important as the art of preparing the delectable deliciousness of a proper meal. When I dine out -- which is often since my own culinary skills leave no smoke alarm unturned -- I marinate in the scent of the Syrah or Malbec, savor the cuisine and bask in the company of great friends. Our servers are our tour guides for an evening likely to go down in the memory books for when I am old. They are the key to the success or failure of a restaurant, and we tip them accordingly.Recently, Portland was rated as the "Foodiest City" by Bon Apetit. Most of those restaurants are centered in the downtown section of the city, which happens to be largely within my house district. I represent some of the finest restaurants, chefs and servers of this great country, and the model has worked thus far.More...

Source: The Balance in the Tip

I wanted to share two recent experiences with my family's automobiles and the ensuing manipulation of the Customer Satisfaction process.A few months ago, we had one of our cars serviced. We were then told to fill out the Customer Satisfaction form with perfect scores for the Service department!More...

Source: Manipulating Customer Service Ratings... What's Going On?