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Monday, April 26th, 2010Every time I sign up for a webs service, buy a piece of electronics or click to download a piece of software there is a contract that I theoretically consent to. These contracts of adhesion usually are extremely one-sided pieces of rubbish that would never exist if users were actually brought to the table to [...]
InfoCamp 2010 Registration Open
Friday, April 23rd, 2010The registration is open for InfoCamp Seattle 2010! I will likely be attending again this year. I am thinking about doing a talk on Takedown Culture the New Censorship of the Digital Age and maybe a Google Book Settlement panel. October is a long way a way though, lots of time to think on it. [...]
Live Blog iEdge 2010: Kindle for Students
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010This is a less traditional panel run by 4 first year MLIS students with a lot of Q&A. Great format. Shortcomings of Kindle as etext: Bad keyboard Only Black & White Slow to refresh NO page numbers Kindel does not support folders and is tough to find texts on Fails to play well with others, [...]
iEdge 2010 Live Blog Sarah Schacht
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010Sarah Schacht the ED and founder of Knowledge As Power (KAP) was the opening keynote speaker for iEdge 2010. Her talk was great it focused on the failed practices of government information practices. My favorite failure is printing word docs so someone can sign the document and then scan it without OCR, Optical Character Recognition. [...]
Jigsaw Renaissance has Open Hours
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010Jigsaw Renaissance, Seattle newest hacker space, now has consistent open hours on the following schedule: 1p-10p Mondays 10a-10p Tuesdays and Thursdays 10a-7p Wednesdays and Fridays 10a-6p Saturdays Starting next week(April 26th 2010).
iEdge: Open Government, Wikileaks, & Google Books Wednesday
Monday, April 19th, 2010iEdge 2010 an annual conference about current topics in information design and technology, organized by the ASIST+T UW Student Chapter. This year, conference sessions will focus on the theme of Society + Controversy. Conference sessions will encompass a wide variety of topics relating to information and technology, including legal issues, information design, access to information, [...]
WikiLeaks Ignite talk from Atlanta
Monday, April 19th, 2010Here is my ignite talk on Wikileak and Social Change through Anonymous speech: Ignite 10NTC: Brian Rowe WikiLeaks.org: Social Change through Anonymous Speech from GregoryH on Vimeo. Thanks for getting it on video Gregory.
TEDx Seattle Live Blog w/ Sarah Davies
Friday, April 16th, 2010Everyone Needs a Safe Place to Save Sarah’s commentary I think a lot of people in the third world might be avoiding banks because of predatory practices, not just inefficiency and lack of branches. We need to have an integrated movement for nonprofit banks in addition to making banking easier. I’m also not sure that [...]
TEDX Seattle SOLD OUT
Thursday, April 15th, 2010TEDX Seattle is SOLD OUT with over 2x the number of people applying for tickets as they had seats for. They ran a Lottery for tickets and I lost maybe next year… Although my wife Sarah Davies got in and will likely be live blogging the event if there is power and wifi. For the [...]
Road to Master: Chess Tactics
Thursday, April 15th, 2010Two days ago I made it public that I am going to become a chess master , well technically a chess player with a master title. This is the first step on that journey. After 5 years away from playing competitive chess my chess game has suffered most in the area of chess tactics. I [...]
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