When
· Naughties
· · 2008
· · · April
· · · · 23 (3 entries)
CommunityOne! ·
I haven’t been really that involved in the work on CommunityOne, although I’m MC’ing a Ruby panel. But just now I was poking around the schedule [PDF; bad, bad CommunityOne!] and holy cow, this is turning into one heavyweight geek-fest. Whether your jones is for for Free Culture or Subversion or Virtualization or alt-JVM languages or many-core pain or Ubuntu news or PostgreSQL, this is the place. And also it’s free. If you’re a Bay Area geek or a JavaOne attendee you’d be nuts not to spend May 5 at the Moscone. [1 comment]
Facebook? ·
I’ve given five public talks in the last two weeks and in several of them I’ve done a poll: “How many people here were active on Facebook six months ago? Please keep your hands up for a moment... of those, how many still are?” Not many hands stay up. Mind you, these audiences are mostly grown-up. [11 comments]
Raconteurs Live ·
Sunday night (yes, that’d be 4/20, which the band noted to general snickers), we took in The Raconteurs at Vancouver’s excellent Commodore Ballroom. It was nice to get out for an evening of rock & roll, and there are some great songs, but my feelings were mixed ... [6 comments]
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