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Ignite is coming to LA! As always speakers will get 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. We're going to be holding the geek event at Cinespace in Hollywood on 7/21. Submit a talk now. This will be the first Ignite in Los Angeles; it is co-hosted by LA Geek Dinner...

Scott Berkun just posted a great rant titled, Calling Bullshit on Social Media. I suggest everyone read it. Berkun raises good points - and I agree the hype around social media warrants taking a critical look...

I've had the opportunity to speak with quite a few of my industry colleagues in Europe during the past year, and it became increasingly obvious there was an opportunity to bring the Tools of Change for Publishing message to a European audience...

Velocity 2009 took place last week in San Jose, with Jesse Robbins and I serving as co-chairs...

The company is testing new controls that will allow members to specify which groups or individuals are able to see each text update, photo or video they post on the site.

Is the hacker ethic harming developers? We don't think so, but maybe the idea resonates a little bit? On Monday Neil McAllister posed the question "is the hacker ethic harming American developers?" Slashdot picked it up and Tim forwarded it to the Radar list...

Updating my post from early June, the U.S. online job market still hasn't shown signs of recovering from steady declines that began in September of last year. Compared to the same period last year, there were 50% less job postings in June 2009.

While we may have had the weekend to try to digest the House's passage (by a close vote of 219-212) of the American Clean Energy and Security Act, I find there's still no consensus on what it means for the U.S...

Today, at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York, Vivek Kundra, the US national CIO, unveiled the new IT spending dashboards at usaspending.gov. The dashboards are designed to help Vivek and the CIOs of individual government agencies get a handle on the effectiveness of government IT spending...

The second part of this two-part interview with Sanaz Ahari, Lead PM on Bing, my interview focuses on the systems used to generate the categorization...

"So what's this conference you're going to?" asked my friends, not braced for an explanation that usually took me more than ten minutes. Ultimately, though, they all ended up excited about the ideas behind Personal Democracy Forum...

A couple of weeks ago Bing had a small search summit for analysts, bloggers, SEO experts, entrepreneurs and advertisers. It was held in Bellevue; they put us up in the hotel and fed us. While there we received demos from Bing project teams...

It almost goes without saying that you won't find anything that runs Windows at anywhere near these prices. Oh, and no, that doesn't mean that Linux is somehow inferior as Windows fans would want you to believe. It is, however, free of charge.

Even with an improving economy, there's still a lot of developers out there who are looking for work. And though it may make seasoned Open Source hackers cringe at the thought, one quick way to find employment may be to go over to "the Other Side" and become a Microsoft SharePoint developer...

Imagine for a moment that you're a capacity planner for a successful LAMP-based web site, and management has just "gifted" you with a new reporting program. You now have to somehow shoehorn it onto the server without hurting the performance of the existing programs. Insoluble problem? Not a bit...

Ribbit bills itself as "Silicon Valley's First Phone Company." Recently I sat down with Ted Griggs, Ribbit's CEO to talk about that tag line, Ribbit's business and what's behind their recent acquisition by British Telecom...

As of Friday, June 26th, 2009 at 1:10PM PST Twitter is pumping out 13,574 tweets per minute. I know from TweeSpeed, The Twitter Instant Speed Meter. The auto-refreshing application averages the last five minutes of Twitter's public timeline to get its figure...

MAKE IT @ Copperfield's This Summer! Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of MAKE magazine and creator of Maker Faire, along with some fellow makers bring the DIY movement to Copperfield's Books on Saturday, June 27th...

Web Squared — Join John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly as they outline their ideas for how the Web is evolving—how the world is putting the Web to work to make business more efficient, culture more vibrant, and society more tolerant...

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One of my many hats is as an events organizer. Twitter has become an invaluable tool for me to gauge the mood of the attendees. Are they excited by the current speaker? Bored or excited at the latest news? Are they having a good time? And most important, are they making connections...

Around the World in 32 Minutes with The Geek Atlas — In this webcast, author John Graham-Cumming presents a tour of 32 places from his book, The Geek Atlas, in 32 minutes...

Longtime security professional John Viega reports on the sorry state of security in his new book, The Myths of Security: What the Computer Security Industry Doesn't Want You to Know. "Today, the tech world might hear a lot about security issues, but the world at large rarely does," writes Viega...

O'Reilly's bestselling author Scott Berkun is working on a new book, Confessions of a Public Speaker. In it, the author of Making Things Happen and The Myths of Innovation aims to uncover and share what separates great speakers from most of the rest of us...

As some of you may know, I got my undergraduate degree in Greek and Latin Classics. So when Forbes asked me to do an interview on the subject of how my Classical education had affected my business career, I agreed...

Driving home from work, listening to NPR's story about health care costs, I couldn't help but be struck by a couple of numbers. The Obama health plan will cost a trillion dollars we're told. A TRILLION sounds big enough to end the debate, doesn't it...

Just in time for summer vacation planning comes an exciting new travelers' guide from O'Reilly, The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science & Technology Come Alive ($29.99), by John Graham-Cumming. Learn about Nikola Tesla in this excerpt from The Geek Atlas now...

Congratulations to Enrique Ruiz -- winner of our DIY Projects contest! He and his son should have a great weekend at Maker Faire! See you all there...

As this year's Maker Faire gets ready to launch, San Mateo County Supervisor Carole Groom has declared May 30th & 31st "Maker's Weekend". "I'm delighted that Maker Faire has chosen to return to San Mateo County and the Event Center...