Category: Events
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StumbleUpon Happiness: Computer-Mediated Serendipity
I enjoyed an engaging presentation by Garrett Camp, founder of StumbleUpon, who was the speaker at this week’s PARC Forum … the first PARC Forum I’ve attended, despite having been working at Nokia Research Center Palo Alto, only about a mile away, for the past 14 months (!). I’d signed up for StumbleUpon in August…
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Active Words, Hyperactive Reading and Hyperconnectivity: Buzz and Scoble at NRC Palo Alto
Buzz Bruggeman and Robert Scoble visited NRC Palo Alto yesterday and presented at our Thursday Lunch Forum. Buzz demonstrated ActiveWords, a Windows utility for customizable keyboard macros that can launch applications and/or insert text in an application. One of his examples was using a few keystrokes to launch Outlook and create an entire email message…
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Altered States, Alienated Majesty, the Vigor of Wild Virtue and the Magnetic Attraction of Awakened People
I awoke yesterday morning, still feeling in a somewhat altered state, ruminating on Andrew Zolli‘s observation of the magnetic attraction of awakened people that permeates Pop!Tech. When I logged in, I found an email notifying me of a comment posted on a blog entry I wrote years ago, on Self-Reliance vs. Interdependence: Inherence, Adherence and…
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Pop!Tech 2007: An Expanded Vocabulary (and Perspective)
OK, in my last entry on Pop!Tech, I wrote that I would only be posting one more “highlights” entry … but I just had to include one more … in part because I am afraid that however much I might condense my 47 pages of notes (in a Word document), no one will ever have…
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Pop!Tech 2007: Continuous Partial Conversations: No Ordinary Moments … Or People
In my last post on Pop!Tech, I expressed the personal human impact the conference had on me – an extended and expansive whole body experience. Before delving into my more detailed notes of the event, I want to spend one more blog post – and more of my laptop battery power – on some [more]…
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Pop!Tech 2007: A Whole Body Experience
Wow. I don’t know where to begin … or where it will end. I’m writing this on a flight back from the most amazing conference I’ve ever experienced (and I’ve experienced lots of conferences). I estimate the average combined IQ and EQ level among the people at Pop!Tech 2007 as perhaps the highest I’ve ever…
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Universal, Empowerment, Partnership (Pop!Tech 2007 pre-conference session)
Michele Bowman, the host for our Pop!Tech pre-conference Wednesday afternoon session on "The Future of Mobility", started off the session by inviting each of the 40 attendees – and the three panelists - to introduce themselves by stating their names followed by up to three words (a "three word introduction" of sorts). It was a…
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Celebrating the Future Within … Everyone?
Amy and I attended the Jubilee Women’s Center‘s 10th Annual Benefit Breakfast on Wednesday, which had the inspiring title "Celebrating the Future Within" … and a correspondingly inspiring program that included several women recounting their challenges, and now the Jubilee Women’s Center helped them rise to meet those challenges. Our good friend, Mary, is on…