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Gnomedex

1. Make Meaning 2. Make Mantra Mission Statements rarely well done, committees Usually bad should be (examples Wendys – Healthy Fast Food Nike – Authentic Athletis Dilbert Mission Statement Generator Website VC – everyone came up with mission statement, he went to dilbert, out of 50 people, he came in 3rd 3. Roll the DICEE [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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