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TechCrunch50 is my vacation

September 10, 2008 – 5:51 am

I took three days off, starting now, to cover TechCrunch50.

You can follow my live blog here: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.
Day 3 update: I got a chance to interview Ashton Kutcher with Meghan Asha:

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An Event Apart 2008

August 19, 2008 – 4:56 pm

For the past two days, I have been at An Event Apart at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

For years, it’s been the one conference I was dying to attend. Last year, I finally got in. But this year, I took notes.
If you want a full recap, check out my posts on ZDNet from today [...]

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Highlights from WordCamp 2007

July 23, 2007 – 2:07 am

Unconferencing is one of the reasons I moved to San Francisco. They are free, geek-infested, and very enlightening. The open source software community is probably my favorite group of folks to hang out with here.
I spent my whole day at WordCamp 2007, hosted at the Swedish American Hall in downtown SF.

The event was [...]

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Is Blogging Journalism?

July 21, 2007 – 8:12 pm

At Wordcamp 2007, John C. Dvorak and Om Malik spoke to a group of roughly 200 people about the nature of blogging. Dvorak argued that journalism and blogging are basically the same, but Malik insisted that blogging has redefined journalism.

He said that only a few years ago, mainstream media had control of the wires. They [...]

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