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Cory Doctorow held a lecture and Q&A Session on November 17th, 2011 at The Wharton School in Jon M. Huntsman Hall. It was open to the general public. Cory’s Biography: Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger — the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of Tor Teens/HarperCollins [...] Philadelphia has an amazing, diverse and ever-active tech-creative community. Web designers, graphic artists, developers, videographers, content strategists, people in marketing, social media and game development all find a home here. There’s so much going on, it’s easy to miss things you’d like to know about, and here’s your chance to find out what is [...] Just a quick post to provide a link to a book I helped write a chapter in, although I must admit, I had a bit of sticker shock! http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?TitleId=47435 Here’s the description: The future success of education depends on technological and pedagogical innovation. Unbridled by the physical constraints of both time and space, [...] Several years ago, I wrote an article about my experience ditching MS Exchange and Blackberry Enterprise Server for Google Apps at the company I worked for at the time. It got a fair amount of questions in the comments, so I figured I would follow up with Google on the one that got asked the [...] I’m speaking to the Penn Humanities Forum tomorrow with my colleague Deke Kassabian. Included below are the slides from my presentation.
The letter we enclosed for the scammer in the parcel. [ Note: Video Embedded at Bottom of Post ] Recently, I received an email from my good friend Dave. A friend of his from Austin had recently lost his wife, yet was receiving scam texts from “her” in London. Dave asked if I knew [...] This just in from next week’s Wharton Higher Ed Web Symposium; if you’re going to attend, be sure to say hello! If you haven’t registered yet, there are still a few spots left. http://www.WhartonUIConf.org/ – a great line up is in store! The 2010 Wharton Higher Education Web Symposium is next week! I [...] Here’s a great video showing some of the work Penn is doing in virtual worlds, put together by Deke Kassabian. Enjoy! flowplayer(“player”, “http://streams.net.isc.upenn.edu/Flowplayer/3.1.4/flowplayer-3.1.4.swf”, { clip: { scaling: ‘fit’, url: ‘isc/networking/SL_final4_15_1000.flv’, autoPlay: false, provider: ‘rtmp’ }, plugins: { rtmp: { url: ‘http://streams.net.isc.upenn.edu/Flowplayer/3.1.4/flowplayer.rtmp-3.1.3.swf’, netConnectionUrl: ‘rtmp://streams.net.isc.upenn.edu/simplevideostreaming’ } } }); http://www.upenn.edu/computing/isc/virtual-worlds/PennInSL.html [...] Second Life The biggest upgrade to Second Life since 2003 occurred yesterday… the release of the Viewer 2 beta. I would highly recommend checking it out; it can be installed alongside the main Second Life viewer, v1.23. There hasn’t been a total user interface overhaul since v1.2 (under a separate numbering system) was released [...] Nom nom nom. We have all heard about China’s attacks on Google. More recently, these attacks have been expanded against Adobe, Yahoo, Symantec, and many others. These are very advanced attacks, coordinated by a hostile foreign government, and should be taken very seriously. The target is intellectual property and account information. The Gmail account [...] |
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