RootsCampNYC Recap

On saturday I attended RootsCampNYC, and unconference dedicated to debriefing on the elections with a decidedly technological flavor. I shot some video with a Samsung SC-210 digital video camera (that I am returning tomorrow because it doesn’t play well with Mac despite what the box says.) The video above is a short interview with Sanford Dickert. I’ve got a few more videos up on...

RootsCampNYC, This Saturday Nov. 18

Is it about privacy or transparency? Or just colossal failure of judgement? On Monday, AOL admitted making a 2-GB file with the search records of 658,000 people available for public download — exactly the sort of information the DOJ sought, and failed, to force Google to provide under the guise of protecting children. Recall that AOL, MSN and Yahoo all buckled to the pressure and released the information. The AOL data represented 1.5% of the search users in May, who were identified by number and not username, but whose vanity searches and map directions give them away. Reportedly, law enforcement officials are scouring the data for potential malfeasance. The Blogosphere was aflame last night. Read the Information Week article and the New York Times article and be glad you use Google and not AOL for your clandestine...

Drupal Shop Talk Conference Call for November 14th 2006

This morning we had a really good Drupal Shop Talk with about a dozen participants. These calls are really great for getting to know other people working in the sector and find out what kind of development is going on. You can read the back channel transcript and my notes at groups.drupal.org The next Drupal Shop Talk will be on December 19th at 10am PST. And I do intend to record that one. If anyone is interested in working on editing the shop talk conference calls, please do let me...

Via Tech Crunch: Confabb the conference website

Just learned of Confabb via TechCrunch Confabb is a new service launching today that offers a centralized place to find information about all kinds of conferences. The site offers everything from speaker and event reviews to photos of the events after the fact through integration with Flickr. It’s an impressive full service site that could become the go-to spot for at least tech conference attendees and possibly a wider audience. This is an exciting development, I was just thinking to myself that it is so hard to stay on top of what conferences are happening where and when. It will be interesting to see how folks react to Confabb and if it gains market share outside of teh tech world. Many conferences could use help with their web presence, and if Confabb has nailed it that’s...

OOPS: AOL Exposes Search Data Of 658,000 People

Is it about privacy or transparency? Or just colossal failure of judgement? On Monday, AOL admitted making a 2-GB file with the search records of 658,000 people available for public download — exactly the sort of information the DOJ sought, and failed, to force Google to provide under the guise of protecting children. Recall that AOL, MSN and Yahoo all buckled to the pressure and released the information. The AOL data represented 1.5% of the search users in May, who were identified by number and not username, but whose vanity searches and map directions give them away. Reportedly, law enforcement officials are scouring the data for potential malfeasance. The Blogosphere was aflame last night. Read the Information Week article and the New York Times article and be glad you use Google and not AOL for...