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Weblogging

Emerging Technology Conference

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Clay Shirky was kind enough to stop by, and drop a comment in the post “We are Out There”. Among other things, he references a conference O’Reilly is putting on: the Emerging Technologies conference, being held in April in Santa Clara. The conference will have a social software track, for those interested in attending. […]

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Weblogging

Humano-Tech Weblogger Conference

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I decided to pull this into a separate post. Once I had time to think on Dave’s idea, I found myself really liking it. As I wrote in my comments, just think of all the people involved in weblogging, all those different interests. In my blogroll are accessibility and/or markup folks, […]

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Just Shelley

Double take

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In my weblogging neighborhood, and out in the real world, I tend to go by Shell (or Bb) rather than Shelley. So anytime I read either Shell or Bb, I tend to think it’s about me, since both are somewhat unusual nicknames. So I did a real double-take when I […]

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Weblogging

Elitist only need apply?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One interesting side note related to the Weblogger conference. In my comments attached to the first conference posting, an anonymous poster wrote: A meet-up would never work because it just wouldn’t have the elitist pseudo-professional look to it that these people want to portray. Since the comments were coming fast and […]

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People

Song for the babies to be

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Three couples on the eve of welcoming new life into their homes: Gary and Fiona Turner, Tom and Wendy Matrullo, and Michael O’Connor Clarke and his wife Sausage(?) . It seems only fitting to play one of my favorite lullabies: Hush my love now don’t you cry Everything will be all right Close your […]