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Cusack on Media Renewal

By On June 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Nice DIY video by the actor John Cusack. He made it for the 2008 National Conference on Media Reform. I first saw this on a giant screen at the conference. Nice to have here to share.

Dig this guys words. He’s a true Hollywood Liberal. Just like I like ‘em. Thanks [...]

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Community Funded Reporting

By On June 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment

This week Ruby and I went to two conferences in Minneapolis. The first one done in Open Space / Unconference style was New Pamphleteers/New Reporters:Convening Entrepreneurs Who Combine Journalism, Democracy, Place and Blogs at the University of Minnesota. (What a long name huh?)

One of the best ideas I heard this week was [...]

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BarCamp RDU 2008

By On April 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Registration for BarCamp RDU is open. Go over to the wiki and ad your name to the list. (I did) This event is one of the best techie unconferences. We start the day with pitches for session ideas. Then the group organizes the sessions into time slots. Finally we break up into groups and [...]

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NCSBC 2008: Open Science Session Video

By On February 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Here is around 80 minutes of video I shot at the 2008 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. This session’s full title is Open Science: how the Web is changing the way science is done, written and published. The discussion leader was Dr.Hemai Parthasarathy (former editor at Nature and PLoS). Because of length and [...]

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NC Science Blogging Conference 2008: Opening

By On January 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

This is the opening ceremony of the 2008 NC Science Blogging Conference. I’m working on two other sessions I recorded. A total of three hours of video content.

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Techies Building Community in RDCH

By On December 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment

So I told you about the creation of SocialCarolina.org the other day. Its a google calendar and blog about local tech events here in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area. (That includes Cary, Carrboro, RTP, Morrisville, etc.)

Well.. some of the coolest events recently have been happening at the new Refresh the Triangle. [...]

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Civic engagement and technology: CMS

By On October 31, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Yesterday I attended the Civic Engagement and Technology Workshop held by the Triangle Community Foundation at the Council for Entrepreneurial Development. I really enjoyed the discussion led by Rob Stuart and all kinds of local nonprofits. I’m excited to see what different groups do with what they learned about network centric [...]

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Science Bloggers Publish Book – The Open Laboratory

By On January 17, 2007 · 1 Comment

Bora Zivkovic has compiled a great new book called The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006. Its a herculean effort to promote science bloggers (aka science writers) and augment this weekends North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. It contains 336 pages from 50 blog posts. Please go get yourself a [...]

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What Conferences do you want to go to?

By On January 16, 2007 · 2 Comments

If you could goto any conference real or yet to be done what would it be? Unconference or traditional conference. Please leave your ideas in the comments or contact me with my contact form. More details later. Thank you.

BTW… I’m going to the NC Science Blogging Conference this Saturday. Hope you can [...]

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