Monthly Archives: May 2007

BarCampPortland and Pibb

May 12th – 3pm

I’m here in Portland, OR at their first BarCamp — it’s a great scene, but with a few differences.
First of all, this is the first time a BarCamp has been held specifically in a coworking space — in this case, an expansive collaborative environment called CubeSpace.
Second, Jay Fichialos, the original camphead, is here from Dallas [...]

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Thoughts on Mozilla

May 10th – 1am

You can now directly download the video or the audio.
Spurred by a conversation I had today, I thought I’d post some wide-ranging and very rough thoughts on Mozilla. They’re pretty raw and uncensored, and I go for about 50 minutes, but it might be somewhat thought-provoking. At the least, I’d love to hear your thoughts [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Flock, Mozilla, Open source, Technology, The Web Arts, Web building | Comments (99)

We found women in tech, so why are you still not reporting about them?

May 8th – 1am

There’s a good article on unconferences by Scott Kirsner in next week’s BusinessWeek. He talks about what an unconference is, discusses the rise of the wider community and the potential threat to the traditional conference model.
All in all, he does a pretty good job capturing an accurate picture of the “unconference scene” and it [...]

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