Alexander Howard, 2/8/12

Government 2.0 Washington Correspondent for O'Reilly Media

The growing importance of data journalism will be recognized in the first ever international Data Journalism Awards.

Julia Allison, 2/8/12

Journalist

Most airlines recognize Twitter and Facebook as effective and easy methods of both informing customers and mitigating public-relations disasters. The question really is: How comfortable are they in their social-media skin?

Women 2.0, 2/8/12

Enabling female tech entrepreneurs.

Women have to overcome the insecurities that appear when there is a perception of somehow falling behind others. We have to realize that there's room for everyone at the table and that we all won't take the same path to get there.

Amy Ephron, 2/8/12

Author

I have a complicated relationship with my Keurig. It was given to us at Christmas by my husband's children. I'd never seen anything like it before, which made them laugh hysterically (as it did half my friends).

Larry Magid, 2/7/12

Technology journalist

Despite what some people say, research from the best scholars has found that predators very rarely find victims online. They find them the old fashioned way: in their local communities.

Jack Hidary, 2/7/12

Entrepreneur

Astro Teller and Megan Smith of Google gathered 50 innovators this past week to brainstorm breakthroughs that could impact the world.

Jon Chattman, 2/7/12

Published Author, thecheappop.com/asidesmusic.com founder, Blogger

Before he threw his last pitch, Curt Schilling already had an idea what his next career would be. This week Schilling's 38 Studios has unleashed their first epic game which I can tell you is not a baseball game as you might think.

Keya Dannenbaum, 2/8/12

Founder and CEO, ElectNext

If 2012 is the year of the big data, and data is power, and this power is wielded with such dramatic asymmetry, how is our electoral and governance process still one that can be legitimately described as by the people, of the people and for the people?

Daniel Burrus, 2/7/12

Technology Futurist, Keynote Speaker, Author

In fact, history is littered with companies that were the category leader and got displaced, even when they had full and total dominance. So although Facebook is very big and has dominance, its future is not guaranteed.

Melissa Richer, 2/7/12

Founder, Ayllu

Right now, social entrepreneurship is a hot trend and there are funders, conferences, university departments and newspaper sections devoted to it.

Christopher Burgess, 2/7/12

COO and CSO, Atigeo, LLC

Lose one, and the criminals will find a way to exploit them all. Easy way to remember that was given to me many years ago: Passwords are like toothbrushes; you don't share them and you change them regularly.

K. Sudhir, 2/6/12

Fellow, Yale Center for Customer Insights

The more a firm can flatten this hump, the more it will profit from customers who do not bleed the firm. So the question stands: when should a firm fire a customer?

Eric Shutt, 2/7/12

Social Media Pro with serious creative energy

Top commercials are now sending us straight to the company's Facebook Page, rather than their website -- for a chance at a Like, and a lasting connection with fans.

Robert Whent, 2/7/12

Entrepreneur in Residence, WEtech Alliance

I came home yesterday to copy hundreds of my recent wedding photos to my server and OMG! -- Nothing. No Lights. No Hum. Nothing. I got the dreaded "Server is not available" message and my heart sank.

Valerie Jarrett, 2/6/12

Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement

Right now, if you're a woman in the workforce, it can be surprisingly difficult to answer basic questions about equal pay: what's the typical salary for someone in your position? Should you be asking for more at the negotiating table? What are your fundamental legal rights?

Eric Korpela, 2/6/12

Astronomer, Berkeley SETI

Your cell phone is very unlikely to cause a crash, but look at it from the FAA's perspective. There is a very, very small chance that the seven seconds it takes to turn off your phone and the 30 seconds it takes to turn it back on could save 300 lives.

Art Brodsky, 2/6/12

Communications Director, Public Knowledge

This is too important to hand over law making to one industry, as Congress did in the case of these bills. Too much is at stake to try to rework the bills in a slapdash manner, behind closed doors. That's the truth.