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Burning Man 2001 Video

By On June 15, 2007 · Leave a Comment

In 2001 I went to Burning Man for the first time. I went by myself. I didn’t know anyone there. (Thanks to Mike L I got introduced to some Burners.) I drove up with someone I met just before the long ride from Berkley. It was a formative time in my life to say [...]

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BarCampRDU 2007 Announced

By On May 3, 2007 · 1 Comment

Fred has announced BarCampRDU 2007 will be August 11. Go over to his blog post to learn more. Registration will happen soon on the wiki. It’ll be held at Red Hat in Raleigh again. I hope Ruby and I can go this year. Last years event was held on our wedding day! [...]

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No Power

By On April 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment

We still don’t have electricity at home. Its been out now since 10am Monday. Ruby telecommutes from home so she’s a digital nomad today.

Yesterday evening we saw what may be the cause of our power outage. A big ole’ electrical pole has snapped off at the top. The only thing keeping it off the [...]

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Take the Bloggers Bowling!

By On February 14, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Ever since Anton announced that we we’re going to have a blogger meetup at a bowling alley I’ve been hearing this song in my head. Camper Van Beethoven had it right. We need to Take the Skinheads Bloggers Bowling!

Join the Chapel Hill bloggers this Wednesday as we bowl a few games [...]

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Creativity + Fans x Love = Money

By On February 2, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Recently I wrote about the News and Observer’s use of YouTube video on their blog of a Duke game on ESPN. I think its very cool and hope more MSM websites adopt this practice. But my ruminations deal with the legality of this practice among for-profit business. Especially when copyright owners, like university [...]

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Audio from Hunt Willard’s talk at NCSB Con 2007

By On January 24, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The little Olympus DS-2 with lapel mic I provided to record the Hunt Willard session at the North Carolina Science Blogging Conference work out well. Enjoy this interesting talk about Science and communication.

Hunt Willard, talk MP3 36m 18s

Hunt Willard, Q&A MP3 23m 24s

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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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North Carolina Science Blogging Conference

By On October 3, 2006 · 2 Comments

The Triangle Science Blogging Conference has changed its name to North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. From Anton on the wiki:

You may have noticed we changed the name of the conference from Triangle to North Carolina. This is so those outside of the state and unfamiliar with this region’s Research Triangle will still know [...]

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Triangle Science Blogging Conference

By On September 25, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Register and get the most up-to-date info at the Triangle Science Blogging Con Wiki. The event is Free!. WiFi is available for Free!

Saturday, January 20, 2007
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Here is what Anton has to say about the event:

We’ll address [...]

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My Wedding – 07.22.2006

By On August 7, 2006 · 1 Comment

I’m a married person now! Wow…

Ruby and I were engaged for one year and three months. PLENTY of time to figure out just want we wanted to do next and make it happen. It was one of the most exciting but stressful parts of [...]

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