Gnomedex

Good
Economy of Language
pay by the word for telegrams
twitter-sized
Currency comparisons
$ to Canadian $ to Lire, to Linden Dollars to WoW gold
Mortality
Gravestone – He Pimped Some Software
how to revise what gets written on your tombstone
How to do good – hard to quantify
Economists and social scientists… watch out
geek-style
http://www.nabuur.com/
icouldbe.org
geekcorps.com
Moulin Wiki – offline copy of wikipedia
all contents of [...]

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Met some really cool folks at the geek dinner and kickoff mixer:
Jim McCusker – http://www.redlasso.com
Validated, approved, video content clipping/sharing
Dave Schappell – http://www.teachstreet.com
Very cool connection network, matching application for subject matter experts and potential students. Not schoolwork but dance lessons, or guitar lessons, language, etc.
Chris Brogan – http://www.chrisbrogan.com
Very cool guy, friend of Debs (isn’t everyone?), Videoblogging [...]

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Big message – BLOG THAT!
Find the video at http://www.gnomedex.com
Digg the slides:
OSS.net/GNOME
Open Source
Open Hardware
Open Spectrum
Open Communications
Open Business
Open Money
Open Culture
Open Networks
Open Society
Open Government
Open Borders
Open Search
Open Schools/Library
Open Minds
Open Space
Open Carry
Open Everything
Peter Drucker – focus on the I in IT
Amazon, 900 reviews, every one in chron order – why can’t i org my reviews?
Whole electronic world is out to [...]

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My favorite tech/social software/meeting cool people conference is HAPPENING.
Gnomedex aims to be a tech zeitgeist – where today’s ideas and thinkers come together – although the direction of our conference may change in the following years. The conference industry certainly has affronted us several challenges, since we refuse to play the games that other [...]

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Guitarist and vocalist for THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES
Now doing PR for non-profits (Pyramid communications)
With Guitar – Playing some velvet underground (started with Kum-Bay-Ya)
Junkies skulking in the shadows – like web2.0 business – lots of money but no clear way to do it
quiick sketch
explain business model in clear manner
draw a contrast from business to [...]

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Sitting in the crowd at Gnomedex and it is just as good as last year.
Mike Arrington – speaking now about the Web2.0 and small companies and what the environment is like
its the best time ever for a startup
advertising spending is a huge part
Mitch Radcliffe brings up why net neutrality will negatively affect the startup world
Youtube [...]

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http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/06/30/techmeme-hacked

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Just found out that Terry Heaton (who gave a great presentation at Gnomedex this year) is undergoing surgery this week for a lunp on his breast. He will find out after the surgery if it was cancerous.
He is blogging about the surgery and being an American without health insurance here:
http://donatacom.com/archives/00001070.htm
and there is a tipjar on [...]

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