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Chapel Hill Startup Weekend

By On October 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Last night I met Gwen Bell. She told me about an event she’s organizing called Startup Weekend. She was part of the group that first pulled it off it Denver. Now its coming to Chapel Hill on November 2-4.

http://chapelhill.startupweekend.com

Startup Weekend is an idea, an experiment, a chance gather the tech [...]

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Radiohead MP3s Tomorrow

By On October 9, 2007 · 1 Comment

I decided to pay £10 for the new Radiohead album IN RAINBOWS the other day. It was a pay what you want deal online. I just got an email saying that the files will be available for download tomorrow.

HERE IS SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE DOWNLOAD:

THE ALBUM WILL COME AS A 48.4MB [...]

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Chapel Hill Launches Wi-Fi Pilot Project

By On August 30, 2007 · 1 Comment

The Town email newsletter “Chapel Hill eNews’ just announced WiFi pilot will be at the following locations.

(1.) U.S. Post Office, 179 E. Franklin St.
(2.) Old Town Hall (IFC Shelter), 100 W. Rosemary St.
(3.) Town Parking Lot 5, 108 Church St.
(4.) Hargraves Center, 216 N. Roberson St.
(5.) [...]

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Plaxo Online Identity Consolidator

By On August 29, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Plaxo is releasing software behind its Pulse service. Basically, by using Microformats XFN info Pulse will aggregate your various online contacts. So if you have accounts at gmail, msn, yahoo, flickr, twitter, facebook, etc. you can consolidate it to understand how they connect with each other and create new connections. [...]

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Chapel Hill WiFi Pilot needs different Hotspots

By On June 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Tonight Tomorrow night the Chapel Hill Town Council will hear a staff proposal for a WiFi pilot project. This project has been a long time coming. One of the first reasons it was proposed in 2005 was to increase equal access to the Internet for all citizens. Former Council Member Edith Wiggins made it clear [...]

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Town of Chapel Hill supports G.A.T.E.

By On June 21, 2007 · Leave a Comment

G.A.T.E. Greater Access to Technology for Everyone

I’m really happy to see the Town of Chapel Hill promoting their opposition to HB1587. They stood up to a really bad bill in the NC House of Representatives. The Town of Chapel Hill passed a resolution opposing HB1587 on June 11, 2007. [...]

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John Edwards at Google

By On June 19, 2007 · Leave a Comment

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More Indy coverage of HB1587

By On June 15, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Fiona Morgan writes another great article about HB1587. She covers the important parts of the last vote in the NC House Public Utilities Committee meeting well. I know because I was there.

Here is one part I didn’t know about. From Anti muni-broadband bill moves forward

There are still many questions about [...]

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Stop NC HB 1587: Prevent Big Telecom from killing Muni WiFi

By On May 24, 2007 · 1 Comment

As I write this NC HB 1587 is before the Utilities Committee for consideration. Big Telecommunications companies want to prevent democratically elected bodies from bringing broadband Internet access to everyone.

Please ask your NC state Rep to vote No or ask their colleague to vote No!

Here is a Microsoft Excel document [...]

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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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