eTech04 Backchannel

One aspect of the eTech04 conference that I found intriguing was the back channel IRC (chat) experience. Always on, almost always active, #etech and #joiito provided an alternate view of the conference; at … Read more

Honor of the Salesman

is a blog covering the dark side of retail, viewed with a wry perspective from the “other” side of the counter. The featured image (which may only be displayed on the index pages, … Read more

More from eTech04

The wide variety of topics covered and fast pace of shared thoughts and ideas continued through the last two days of the 2004 O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. My 3 word summary? Best Conference … Read more

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Blogs, Wikis and RSS (oh my!)

What a wonderfully stimulating day today at eTech04! After the keynotes came the first in a series of sessions that touched on a number of topics that I’m heavily involved with these days. … Read more

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eDem Highlights

Based on a quick search for “digital democracy” over at feedster, it’s clear that this conference is going to be extremely well documented. I’m going to link to some of the entries that … Read more

Digital Democracy Teach-In

The Digital Democracy Teach-In, an adjunct session to this week’s Emerging Technology conference, is off to a great start. Joe Trippi, former Dean campaign manager, was the first speaker, and provided both a … Read more

Gaston Maurice Julia

Yesterday, in honor of his birthday, Google paid homage to Gaston Julia with the following banner image: Julia was a French mathematician who studied the iteration of polynomials and rational functions in the … Read more