Category: Events
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Data Exhaust from Foo Camp 2008
The term data exhaust was one of several additions to my vocabulary throughout FOO Camp 2008 (the annual “Friends Of O’Reilly” campout and unconference at the O’Reilly campus in Sebastopol, CA, to which I was pleasantly surprised to have been invited [again!]). The rather clever phrase came up in the context of a discussion about…
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The Indigo Girls’ Zoo Tunes Concert
The Indigo Girls gave a concert Sunday night at Woodland Park Zoo's Zoo Tunes 2008 Concert Series that was, note for note, the finest music I've ever seen and heard live. I've attended – and reviewed – a fair number of other great concerts, but all of them have had at least one relative "low…
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Thingamajiggr II: Attentionality, Surreality and Sexuality
I attended Thingamajiggr, “a party celebrating the innovative Pacific Northwest tech community”, last night. The party – organized by Waggle Labs and O’Reilly Radar, and held at the 911 Media Arts Center – was fun, and the presentations preceding the party – by John Medina, Scotto Moore, Dan Savage and others – were very engaging…
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UbiComp 2008 Workshops
We are happy to announce 9 workshops that will be held at UbiComp 2008, the Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, in Seoul, South Korea, on September 21, the day before the main conference program, which will take place September 22-24. Workshops provide an excellent opportunity to discuss and explore emerging areas of ubiquitous computing…
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KT Tunstall @ The Moore, Seattle (a concert review)
KT Tunstall and her band of mostly unplugged musicians gave an energetic performance at The Moore Theatre in Seattle last night. The music was drastically fantastic, and her rapport and repartee with the audience was light-hearted and engaging. I first discovered her through spam – one of the weekly emails RealNetworks used to send out…
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Move-in Day for Strands Labs, Seattle
Today we moved into our new office at 4143 University Way NE – right on "the Ave", the heart of Seattle’s University District, and literally a stone’s throw from the University of Washington. View Larger Map We occupy the top floor of a three-story building, with 3400 square feet to grow into, and two (!)…
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Political Song and Dance – and Humor – with The Capitol Steps
Amy and I enjoyed a hilarious political revue by The Capitol Steps comedy song and dance troupe ("We put the ‘mock’ in Democracy’") at The Paramount Theatre in Seattle last night with our friends Dave and Lisa. Among the entertaining songs – and insightful (and inciteful) prologues – included in last night’s show were: Ebony…
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The Dalai Lama and the Reflectance and Resonance of Greatness, Understanding and Humility
His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is in Seattle this week. I don’t know if I’ll get a chance to see him, personally – I’ve just returned from Florence, Italy (CHI 2008), with a really bad cold – but I just read a report by Ward Serrill in The Seattle Times on connecting Eye-to-Eye with the…
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UbiComp 2008: Call for Papers, Notes and Workshops (deadline: April 4)
The Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2008) will be held 21-24 September 2008 in Seoul, South Korea: UbiComp 2008 welcomes original, high-quality research contributions that advance the state of the art in the design, development, deployment, evaluation and understanding of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) systems. Ubicomp is an interdisciplinary field of study that includes…