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Al Gore: Making Geeks Feel Good

Al Gore had just five words to say at the Webby Awards held in New York this week: "Please don't recount this vote." The quip won laughs, even if he was simply following the rules: The Webby's only permits winners five words in ...READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Al Gore's Excellent Venture Adventure

Former Vice President Al Gore has added another gig to his already jam-packed resume: venture capitalist. Gore announced an alliance between his firm, Generation Investment Management and the legendary Silicon Valley venture firm, ...READ»

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Al Gore's Investment Tips

Gore's op-ed in the New York Times details seven companies, technologies and industries to take us into the new energy era.READ»

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Assault on Advertising

If television commercials were still as accountable for results as Al Gore thinks they are, the Internet probably would have gone the way of the CB radio sometime during his second term in the Clinton White House. READ»

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Brief explanation of my personal motto

One thing that I have always done is to learn one thing from everyone that I have come into contact with, this can be something you want to learn to do, keep from doing, or just remember so that when a situation arises you have the ...READ»

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Design Thursday: Design for Democracy

If you doubt that design matters, think about the ballot you might have cast on this past Election Day—and then talk to Al Gore. Two years before a blizzard of hanging chads froze Gore out of the Oval Office, a 1998 study found ...READ»

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One Nation Under Net

Today, Presidential candidates are posting their platforms online, political parties are recruiting donors on the Web, and voters are growing more connected to Washington via their modems.READ»

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Live Earth LiveBlog

11:20 AM The Live Earth concert has now been going for more than 10 hours now, if you're measuring everything by one time zone. Sydney started at around 9 p.m. on the East Coast of the U.S. It was preceded by Al Gore giving a little ...READ»

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Music to Save the Earth By

Starting tomorrow in Sydney, Australia and continuing for the next 24 hours around the globe is the Al Gore-inspired Live Earth concert, which will feature 150 performers in eight cities around the world. It will be shown on more ...READ»

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Better than Oprah: Gore Gets Even More Eco-Friendly Facetime

Enviro-darling Al Gore is just about all over the place these days. This Saturday he and concert producer Kevin Wall are putting on Live Earth, the 24-hour global warming benefit, and he just graced the cover of our July/August issue ...READ»

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Davos: Tech Pioneers Gathering

I spent the afternoon in a "closed" meeting of the Tech Pioneers. Unlike the previous sessions I've attended, this one was a workshop, and my group spent nearly two hours talking about "Crossing the Chasm" by the subject-master on ...READ»

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Al Gore Says Forget .com & .net--We Need .eco!

After years of being teased for Internet hubris, Al Gore once again is taking his MO back to the Internet. Today, he and his group, the Alliance for Climate Protection, will be lobbing for a new ".eco" domain that ...READ»

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Digital Matters - Issue 38

"We are nearing the end of tedious, dull and small politics."READ»

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World Business Forum

It's no secret global commerce is stuck in the doldrums. Worldwide, economies are expected to average 3.5% growth over the next few years, compared with the 4.7% clip enjoyed from 2003 to 2008. Developed economies will do well to ...READ»

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Al Gore's $100 Million Makeover

When you pick up the next issue of Fast Company magazine, Al Gore will be serenely looking back at you. We were fortunate to have Good Morning America do a quick mention of the story -- check it out here. (The video screen for the ...READ»

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Al Gore Needs to Change Climate Language

Al Gore is taking some serious heat about global warming amid record winters. “I, for one, genuinely wish climate change were an illusion,” Al Gore said in a The New York Times article Sunday. “Climate change” might...READ»

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An Inconvenient Typeface: How One Numeral *almost* Sunk Gore's New Book

It's a nail-biter of a story as typographers, designers, editors--and the former Vice President--rush to fix a pesky "I". That is... "1".READ»

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The True Inconveniences of Designing Al Gore's Office

For a high-profile environmentalist such as Gore, politics sometimes interfere with making the right decision.READ»

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Silicon Valley Gets Potomac Fever

Doerr. Barksdale. Cook. Andreessen. Polese. Minor. They've changed business forever. Now they've set their sights on Washington.READ»

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Ask Dan: Think Different

Dear Dan, I'm frustrated. My firm just paid for a market-research study and one of the findings was that the customers in our market can barely tell my firm apart from any of our rivals. It's humbling because we've always prided ...READ»

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Al Gore: Oil "Junkie" America Needs Third World Help

The former Vice President, clean-shaven in a dark suit and black cowboy boots, pauses. "Junkies find veins in their toes, when the veins in their arms and legs collapse," he says to Charlie Rose. The audience suffers an ...READ»

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What is Leadership?

In my view, we need to reinvent leadership for our digital age. The power to move people is switching to ideas because of the increasing role of innovation. We need to move away from leadership-as-position. For me, leadership is an ...READ»

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Summer Movies We're Afraid to See: 2 Fast, 2 Renewable

With Hollywood prepping big-budget versions of Monopoly, Bazooka Joe, and Stretch Armstrong, what's next? Here's another blockbuster that Rooftop Comedy came up with.READ»

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Old People: The Cure for Climate Change?

Aging populations are associated, in some countries, with lower carbon emissions, according to a new study.READ»