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Competing free classes at Stanford on Wednesdays

You know, I don’t think Google works as well as it used to. I searched last week when I heard about Howard Rheingold’s class at Stanford (the one everyone’s talking about). After a bunch of digging, I found that Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leader’s session is running - same time, same campus. Tomato-tomato right?

After significant confusion, as I ask folks if they’re gonna head to the JBoss session (26 Jan) and ask how interested were people in the “How to be a VC” session from yesterday — a chat with Niall Kennedy provides the final clue. They’re different entities altogether.

So maybe you’re as busy or scattered as I can be, but given the fact that Google still didn’t deliver the goods today, I thought I’d put up both links and put them both on my events calendar.

Howard Rheingold’s course, hosted by the Stanford Humanities Lab, can be found here . Next week’s speaker is Paul Hartzog, developer of panarchy - which I hope I don’t demean by calling an experimental crucible for ideas about governance.

In extreme contrast, we have the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders sessions which have a distinctly more business feel. Next week’s speaker there is Ken Denman of wireless sw company iPass.

To the extent that I am capable of taking a break each Wednesday afternoon for a class (guys, evenings are so much easier to dedicate time to), I hope to bounce between them. I was over at Stanford yesterday, with my elderly dad at the hospital - while VC reminiscences weren’t enough to draw me away, Peter Kollock ’s discussion would have been. Too bad!