Gary M. Krebs, 1/6/12

Screenwriter, author, publisher

It's not exactly a news flash to me that job applications are now all digital. I had, after all, been on the other end of the process for years as a hiring manager. But things are very different when you are the applicant.

Lisa Belkin, 1/6/12

Senior Columnist on Life/Work/Family, Huffington Post

If you've been tempted to dismiss the internet as superficial and soulless, and online relationships as a poor imitation of real ones, you might want to talk to Serge and Monica Bielanko today.

Liz Tracy, 1/6/12

Writer, 'Miami New Times'; founder, TheHeatLightning.com

For years, Dylan Romer created live psychedelic video art that screened at galleries around Miami. He captured events as they happened and translated the images into choppy renderings of reorganized time.

Joe Kutchera, 1/6/12

Series from Pursuit of the American Dream: Success Stories from Today's Immigrant Entrepreneurs

With Duolingo, he hopes to solve two enormous problems for the developing world: bring down the incredibly high-price of computer language learning to nothing and improve the quality and quantity of online content in languages other than English.

Matthew Zachary, 1/6/12

http://about.me/matthewzachary

21st Century Suggestion: Do not post photos of yourself on Facebook vacationing with your family in Cabo when you are disability leave from your job.

Beckley Mason, 1/6/12

Bay Area blogger

We used to use things like hammers or cars to augment our physical abilities. But computers and phones augment our mental capabilities by allowing us to store and access information outside of our brains.

Brian Frederick, 1/6/12

Executive Director, SportsFans.org

It is possible to protect the rights of copyright holders and content creators without drastically reshaping the Internet, stifling creativity and potentially shuttering some of our favorite sites. This legislation isn't it.

Daniel Burrus and John David Mann, 1/6/12

Gameification represents part of a predictable sequence. Many of the greatest technological advances in business have come originally from the world of kids and their games.

Laurie David, 1/5/12

Producer/Author/NRDC Trustee

Right under our noses, cell phones are undermining centuries of date etiquette. The result is not pretty. Along with landlines, the doorbell is becoming extinct, and with it, the one opportunity you have to look the kid (friend, date) in the eye, assess his/her demeanor (ie: sobriety) and make sure he knows I'm watching.

Joel Kelsey, 1/5/12

Political Adviser, Free Press

We all remember the 1980s and its awesome fashion and music. While some may want to revisit those aspects of the past, I don't think anyone wants to return to the era of the cable and Ma Bell monopolies.

David Honig, 1/3/12

Co-founder, Minority Media and Telecommunications Council

For the United States to be competitive with other nations, and to end the digital divide, the Treasury should invest what's necessary to build out and sustain fast national wireline and wireless services.

Dean Kamen, 1/5/12

Inventor of the Segway; Founder, FIRST

If kids looked at Nicola Tesla or Bill Gates the way they look at LeBron James and Tom Brady, then I guarantee that our students' enthusiasm for math and science would match their passion for Little League and Pop Warner.

George Smoot III, 1/5/12

2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics

We are in the midst of one of the most interesting and challenging science research programs that humans have ever pursued. It is good to keep this in mind when the everyday crises of human affairs seem so overwhelming.

Jean-Lou Chameau, 1/5/12

President, California Institute of Technology

The excitement engendered by exploration, innovation and science is tremendous -- and rarely quite as evident as when a rocket launches, bound for another planet.

Ken Goldberg, 1/5/12

Professor of Robotics, UC Berkeley

Why should Facebook be limited to those with human faces? It's possible we'll soon see "Interface-book," where our robots will also stay up late making friends and exchanging data.

Rob Leathern, 1/5/12

Founder and CEO, XA.net

Advertising is by its nature, a probabilistic, risk-based exercise. Some of just-in-time manufacturing's benefits are applicable to problems faced today in the advertising industry.

Nick Hiebert and Scott Cohen, 1/4/12

In between losing 10 lbs, quitting smoking, and being more outgoing this new year, pick up some local flare for your iPad and take some time to explore these publications that capture the zeitgeist of this clever city.