Thoughts on a Documentary Movie
I went to see two movies at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham last weekend. When I was walking around I recorded this short podcast about the movie At the Death House Door.
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North Carolina Tech Events
If you are organizing a tech event, big or small, in North Carolina you should promote it on SocialCarolina.org. This is a free site that a few volunteers are putting together. Its goal is to “Connect the Community to Events”. Simple.
To submit an event lets us know about it with our contact form or via [...]
Techies Building Community in RDCH
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. They are organized by the [...]
Social Carolina: Tech Events Calendar
Wayne Sutton is on top of local tech events in our area. So a couple of us asked him to create something to keep track of these events. He set up a blog at socialcarolina.org and I created a google calendar. Plus we have the Twitter user RDCH to follow and stay up-to-date.
Know about a [...]
Jackson Fox at Refresh the Triangle
On October 25 at 6:30-8:00PM Jackson Fox is speaking at a new event series called Refresh the Triangle. I’m signed up via Upcoming.
Refresh 001: Building User-Centered Web Apps in a Crunch
Durham, NC—Thurs, Oct 25, 2007, 6:30-8:00PM
Jackson Fox is a User Experience Engineer at Lulu.com, and a graduate student in Information & Library Science at UNC Chapel [...]
Eat Well and Blog about it
Anton has set up a cool Blogtogether food blogging event set for September 24. It starts off with a book reading at The Regulator and then a great dinner at The Peidmont Restaurant in Durham with Cleveland based author Michael Ruhlman. Ruby and I should be there celebrating my bday.
Schedule of Events
9/23 at [...]
Share the Chapel Hill Wireless Map
April/May of last year (2006) I created the Wordpress blog and Google Maps mash up Chapel Hill Wireless. The goal was to help people find wireless hotspots in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, North Carolina. Since then Anton created Durham Wireless and Zach created Asheville Wireless. Plus lots of other things have happened. Now we are [...]
Adult Literacy Blog
Yashna of the Durham Literacy Center has set up a new blog for students and tutors. It’ll be an interesting read I’m sure. Its wonderful to see folks using blogs as a tool for adult education. Check out DLC Adult Literacy Community.
$599 Dell laptop with Ubuntu
Yep. A pretty dang good deal. Dell laptop with Ubuntu for sale. I think this is a wonderful deal for non-profits. There is little reason left now for NGOs to be shackled to Microsoft products.
Hat tip to Justin.
RDCH: Twitter users in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill
Last week I created a new user on Twitter called RDCH. It stands for Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill. The idea is for this Twitter user to act like a group. I’ve been using Twittervision Map and Google to find people who’ve identified that they live somewhere in the Triangle aka RDCH. (That includes Apex, Cary, [...]
