Monthly Archives: March 2007

On the Kathy Sierra Situation…

Posted on March 27, 2007 by Nick Dynice

Kathy Sierra is talking about two separate (possibly linked? the evidence has been destroyed) and distinct incidences, both of which have scared her away from E-Tech.

The first one was a comment on her own blog, the “death threat” where …

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BarcampLA, day 1

Posted on March 25, 2007 by Nick Dynice

BarCampLA3 day one has been a blast. I met a lot of cool people, and caught up with some others. The most impressive so far has been Reichart’s new service QTask, a project management system with a …

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BarCampLA, March 24th-25th, 2007

Posted on March 22, 2007 by Nick Dynice

BarCampLA 3 happens this weekend in downtown LA. Sessions will take place on both Saturday and Sunday this time. I think a lot more people are going to spend the night this time around, so it should …

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How to consume SXSWi07 in realtime without being there with web 2.0

Posted on March 11, 2007 by Nick Dynice

Why sit hat home and be sad that you could not make it to SXSWi? Web 2.0 offers tools that will let you know about any major (and extremely minute) developments, minus the actual face-to-face conversation you might …

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Nine Inch Nails using viral marketing for its new album, Year Zero

Posted on March 7, 2007 by Nick Dynice

Nine Inch Nails’s new album, “Year Zero” has a really interesting marketing campaign/alternate reality game, partly in response the last album’s poor marketing. It is great to see Trent Reznor’s creativity (with the help of 42 Entertainment) being …

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Beth Noveck’s Patent Reform Proposal will be put to work

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Nick Dynice

I remember hearing Beth Noveck’s talk on IT Conversations from Accelerating Change 2005 Conference (originally featured on ITC in June 2006) thinking that her ideas for a peer-reviewed patent system for the U.S. would be great, but that it …

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Cory Doctorow to Steve Jobs: Oh yeah? Remove DRM from Pixar Movies

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Nick Dynice

I took the liberty of downloading this clip provided by ibiblio.org of Cory Doctorow’s latest talk on DRM, Pwned: How copyright turns us all into IP serfs and uploaded it to YouTube becuase I recognize YouTube’s value, that YouTube …

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