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Ignite Seattle on 2/19; Ignite Portland on 2/5!
via O'Reilly Radar by Brady Forrest on January 28, 2008
By Brady ForrestThe next Ignite Seattle is February 19th at the CHAC. It's great to be back! At the last one we had over 350 people watch 15 great talks (all of which can be found online). Watch the videos (courtesy of Bryan Zug) to see some excellent talks like Shawn Murphy's Hacking Chocolate, Elan Lee's LIFE: If you're bored, you're doing it wrong, and Dan Shapiro's...
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Why ETech is O'Reilly's Most Important Conference
via O'Reilly Radar by Tim O'Reilly on January 28, 2008
By Tim O'ReillyI begin almost every talk I give with a brief version of my 2002 presentation Watching the Alpha Geeks. Time and again, enthusiasts rather than corporate strategists have showed us the path to the "next big thing." I show pictures of Jobs and Wozniak along with the prototype Apple I, its chassis carved in a wood shop. I show early snowboards, skis glued together by someone...
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Geek-friendly SF therapist Ann Larie Valentine open for business
via LawGeek by Jason Schultz on January 28, 2008
... superbly clever, and a great listener. Well, now she's officially opened her own private therapy practice here in San Francisco specializing in couples counseling, personal growth, women's issues, and substance abuse. Plus, she's even started her own blog to talk about interesting therapy-related topics. If you know anyone in need of counseling, send them her way!
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Restoring from Time Machine
via Duncan Davidson | Combined by Duncan Davidson on January 27, 2008
Time Machine is one of the great new features in Mac OS X Leopard. And really, it’s about time an operating system sported a built in back up feature. Most of Apple’s marketing around Time Machine focuses on it’s ability to go back in time and pick out individual files that were deleted or lost sometime in the past. It’s only mentioned as a side thought that you can also use it to fully...
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A Rookie Guide to Digital SLR Cameras
via Mike Industries by Mike D. on January 21, 2008
There comes a time in every point-and-shooter’s life when he or she wonders if there is more to photography than a palm-sized block of aluminum stowed away in one’s pocket. The ultracompact point-and-shoot has come so far in the last ten years that it’s tempting to write off DSLRs as largely irrelevant to most [...]
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Battelle Turns Down $100 Million Offer For FM Publishing. Decides To Shop Around For a Higher Price.
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on January 24, 2008
Yesterday, news started circulating that Federated Media Publishing hired Savvian, a boutique San Francisco investment bank, to shop around the blog ad network to potential buyers. This action was taken after FM Publishing was approached by several investors. One investor, we have learned, put a $100 million buyout offer on the table for the entire company, which FM Publishing declined.FM’s...
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The G9 in Japan
via Duncan Davidson | Combined by Duncan Davidson on January 24, 2008
Nick Devlin writes about his love affair with the Canon G9 and how he laid aside his M8 for a while to indulge his new toy. The G9 is a spiff camera. Everyone I know is raving about it.
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An Update to a Savvy Approach to Copyright Messaging
via Derek Powazek by Derek Powazek on January 24, 2008
In my original post, I suggested adding a copyright message to a photo and use CSS to crop its view. This accomplishes the goal of adding robust copyright information without defacing your own work. I got a lot of responses to this idea, and wanted to update the post with a few responses to the most frequent questions.1. It’s not semantic!True. Neither am I. I once slung spacer gifs with the...
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WordPress.com Now a Video Publishing Tool
via NewTeeVee by Jackson West on January 23, 2008
In addition to receiving a generous new round of venture capital, Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com (and the backend provider for NewTeeVee and the rest of the GigaOM network), has announced a storage upgrade for users. Combined with the beta video player, server-side transcoding and a new Flash-based uploading interface due to be released shortly, this makes the $20-a-year...
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