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Blogon Berkeley Style 07/17/2004 04:10 PM
Join us for a get together for BlogOn conference attendees, local bloggers, techies, media folks, and anyone else who wants...

""BERKELEY – With the Democratic
National Convention over and the
Republican one beginning next week, it
seemed a good time to check in with
George Lakoff, the UC Berkeley professor
of cognitive linguistics whose scrutiny
of the language of politics has..."

""BERKELEY – With the Democratic
National Convention over and the
Republican one beginning next week, it
seemed a good time to check in with
George Lakoff, the UC Berkeley professor
of cognitive linguistics whose scrutiny
of the language of politics has..." 08/27/2004 01:45 PM

see you at BlogOn

see you at BlogOn 07/22/2004 01:32 PM
since the event's sold out, you can watch the webcast

Six Apart at BlogOn

Six Apart at BlogOn 07/20/2004 11:32 AM
We get the opportunity to attend a lot of different events about weblogs and social media, but one we're particularly...

Blogon Beauties.......

Blogon Beauties....... 07/23/2004 06:11 PM
I finally made it to Berkeley for the BlogOn! It's been so great to see people that I've not seen...

BlogON time

BlogON time 07/16/2004 01:49 PM

OK - it's time to move onto the next conference - BlogON - here in Berkeley next week.

It's nice to have conferences so close - so I can go home and sleep in my own bed.

I'll get to have time to hang out with Ma ry Hodder and talk about the meaning and future of conversations. I wonder if she's hip to ThreadsML? Hmmmm

Well anyway - I sure hope nobody's plane gets bumped on the way getting here. It was a bummer Doc couldn't make it to AO.

Th enice thing about this conference is that we'll be having a 'blogger' dinner so lots of otehr folks can attend.

So join us for a get together for BlogOn conference attendees, local bloggers, techies, media folks, and anyone else who wants to take part, hosted by some of the Bay area's finest blogger folk.

Date is Friday night, July 23rd at the Pyramid Brewing Company in Berkeley, California.

Hosted by Bay area bloggers Christian Crumlish, Tantek Celik, Cheyenne Burnsworth, Marc Canter, Mary Hodder ,this is a chance for everyone who's interested to hang out, talk, eat and meet, whether or not you're attending the conference.

Drinks and dinner should run about $25 per person--come for drinks at 6:30 and dinner at 7.

Map here

BlogOn Dinner

BlogOn Dinner 07/19/2004 06:45 PM
Looking forward to BlogOn later this week in Berkeley. There is an open blogger dinner Friday night you can sign up for, should be a blast. Here's a nice article on Social Media as a Wave that interviews Mary Hodder...

More BlogOn images....

More BlogOn images.... 07/27/2004 12:25 AM

The Brothers Gillmor - Dan's having a party to celebrate the launch of his book on Friday (after OSCON.)

Mary Hodder and Judith Meskill

In order (L-R):

Andrew Anker (former VC and Wired guy, now at 6A), Ross Mayfield (SocialText), Greg Reinacker (Newsgator), Dave McClure (PayPal), Russell Beattie (I finally got to meet him and then he split!), someone's head and then finally Rafat Ali (PaidContent.org.)

Turns out Jonas Luster (Collabnet) and Dave Hornik (August Captial) are both criminal sociologists. I guess that means they understand Macromedia and Apple. A calm Jason Shellen presides over it all - while checking email. Afterall - he IS one of those 200 Google Millionaires - right?

Finally Tantek Celik (Technorati - not Dave Sifry) and Biz Stone (Blogger/Google - not a millionaire)

BlogOn images.....

BlogOn images..... 07/25/2004 02:12 AM

Vancouver in the house. Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield of Ludicorp.

Cole Valley in the House. Craig Newmark (THAT Craig of CraigsList) and Mark Pincus of Tribe.net.

Me and Kim Polese. Photo by JD.

More later.....

BlogOn 2004

BlogOn 2004 07/29/2004 06:48 AM
BlogOn 2004
http://www.blogonev ent.com/blogon2004/blog/

BlogOn 2004 is a website featuring all the activities and content generated from this bloging event. Included are Agenda, Speakers, Companies, Program Committee, Sponsors, BlogOn Blog, Community Tools, Conference Details, Register, Sponsor and Exhibit.

BlogOn 2004 Blog

BlogOn 2004 Blog 07/25/2004 08:50 PM
BlogOn Conference's blog .. le blog de Blog On .. BlogOn .. blog

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No one at BlogOn presentation is using
Explorer

No one at BlogOn presentation is using
Explorer 07/26/2004 01:59 AM
At the BlogOn conference, a Microsoft presenter asked his audience how many of them used Internet Explorer:

Probably 99 times out of 100 when he asks that question all the hands go up, right? Well first there was a pause and then a giggle and then a whoop of laughter as the audience looked around and realized that NO ONE had raised a hand. The presenter was thrown off his mark, but he recovered and said, "Wow! Okay how many of you wish we'd fix IE so you could use it?"

Still no hands....

Informal survey afterwards said the Windows users in the crowd were all using the latest Firefox. Wouldn't it be amazing if Mozilla ended up winning in the end?

Link (via Waxy)

BlogOn: The Business of Social Media

BlogOn: The Business of Social Media 06/21/2004 02:56 AM

It looks like it's a party at Berkeley. I wonder if everyone will go eat Pizza on Telegraph when they're done?

BlogCon

UC-Berkeley will be hosting BlogOn: The Business of Social Media. An all-star cast of speakers are coming to talk about blogs, social networks, syndication and whatnot. Basically, it looks like a great gathering for those interested in social media.

Furthermore, they have discounts for bloggers and i’m very psyched to announce that they have scholarships for students and economically-disadvantaged bloggers. I wish more organized events recognized the importance of getting bright minds involved who don’t have the economic freedom to usually participate in these conversations.

[Many-to-Many]

BlogOn 2004 - The Business of Social
Media

BlogOn 2004 - The Business of Social
Media 06/09/2004 09:16 AM
BlogOn 2004 - The Business of Social Media .. blog conference

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Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over

Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over 07/29/2004 05:21 PM
fun post about the blogger breakfast

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Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs

Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs 06/06/2004 06:45 PM
Kansas City Star (subscription),MO-9 hours ago• BlogPulse.com offers a blog search engine. Just type in keywords of interest. Or use Google to search for “blog” and keywords of interest. ...

Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs?

Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs? 03/29/2005 07:22 AM
Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different From External Blogs?
http://www.llrx.com/features/internalblogs.htm

Dennis Hamilton shares his experience with launching a blog behind the corporate firewall, and suggests parameters that focus on content value to ensure its successful implementation. This is an feature article appearing in the March edition of Sabrina I. Pacifici's LLRX.com.

Berkeley DB XML 2.0.9

Berkeley DB XML 2.0.9 01/03/2005 02:28 PM
A native XML database with XQuery access.

How Berkeley Can You Be?

How Berkeley Can You Be? 10/29/2003 01:16 AM
I finally got around to sorting through and captioning the photos I took of the How Berkeley Can You Be? parade and Art Car fest that was held in Berkeley at the end of September. Going through the pictures reminded me of some of the reasons I like living in Berkeley so much. Sure, people regularly overdo political correctness here, and there were a lot of "Only in Berkeley" groups and moments in the parade, but on the whole it was an amazing display of the diversity, creativity and sense of humor that make this a fun place to live. There were also a lot of self-mocking groups poking fun at Berkley. I love it when people retain the ability to laugh at themselves, and it is a highly desirable quality for living in Berkeley. Luckily, it is also a frequently displayed quality. One of the stars of the parade was the Sashimi Tabernacle Choir, an art car from Houston Texas, of all places. 5 miles of wiring that must have taken months of work to put together, all for a bunch of plastic fish and lobsters who sing while being conducted by large crustacean. It sounds silly, but it was wonderful. I could track its progress down University Avenue by the gales of laughter is spawned as it passed by. After the parade, people crowded around for hours and were treated to special performances by the Choir. I got some good photos. If it comes to your town, don't miss it. Or it even has its own website, with a very funny account of its construction, you can check it out at www.sashimitabernaclechoir.org....

Berkeley DB 4.3.27

Berkeley DB 4.3.27 01/03/2005 02:28 PM
Provides embedded database support for traditional and client/server application

Berkeley DB 4.2.52

Berkeley DB 4.2.52 04/13/2004 12:36 PM
Provides embedded database support for traditional and client/server application

ScienceMatters@Berkeley

ScienceMatters@Berkeley 09/22/2004 06:16 AM
David Pescovitz: In this month's issue of my research digest ScienceMatters@Berkeley...

* Flipping the Switch on Cancer: Improving the effectiveness of Cancer drugs one molecule at a time.
* Think Molecularly, Act Globally: Studying the atmosphere from a converted spy plane.
* Quantum Computing's Magnetic Attraction: A new spin on magnetic atoms.
* The secret history of Vitamin B-12

Link

At CFP 2004 in Berkeley

At CFP 2004 in Berkeley 04/21/2004 12:54 PM
This week I'm at the ACM's 14th Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP), at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley (walking distance from my house). There are good sessions on issues such as e-voting and digital rights management, and savvy...

Discovering Berkeley DB

Discovering Berkeley DB 11/25/2003 10:23 PM

I'm working on a project at the moment which involves exporting a whole bunch of data out of an existing system. The system is written in Perl and uses Berkeley DB files for most of its storage.

I'd never done anything with Berkeley DB before, but luckily Python has a module which seems to do all of the hard work for me:

>>> db = bsddb.btopen('xpand.db')
>>> db.keys()[0:10]
[':archives:index.html', ':art:test.html', ... 
>>> db[':art:test.html']
'template;front.tp\x01\x01'
>>> 

The Berkeley DB libraries are maintained by Sleepycat Software. Unfortunately, their site is completely saturated with marketing jargon. Our customers rely on Berkeley DB for fast, scalable, reliable and cost-effective data management for their mission-critical applications. Great - now what does it do exactly?

Some digging around turned up the real information: the Berkeley DB Tutorial and Reference Guide, which contains pretty much everything you could possible want to know about the technology. It turns out that at a basic level Berkeley DB is just a very high performance, reliable way of persisting dictionary style data structures - anything where a piece of data can be stored and looked up using a unique key. The key and the value can each be up to 4 gigabytes in length and can consist of anything that can be crammed in to a string of bytes, so what you do with it is completely up to you. The only operations available are "store this value under this key", "check if this key exists" and "retrieve the value for this key" so conceptually it's pretty simple - the complicated stuff all happens under the hood.

It seems like a great alternative to a full on relational database for simple applications, although I'm slightly confused by the license which allows free use for open source products but requires a license for commercial applications. Does that mean that if I use the bsddb Python module in a commercial app I need to get a license from Sleepycat?

Sun and UC Berkeley are about to BOINC

Sun and UC Berkeley are about to BOINC 12/17/2003 11:53 AM
Hunting aliens and beyond

Lab Notes from UC Berkeley

Lab Notes from UC Berkeley 12/11/2003 01:13 PM
In this issue of Lab Notes from UC Berkeley's College of Engineering:

* Grabbing waste heat from industry to warm your apartment
* Engineering our water resources against El Nino
* Simulating cyber-attacks on a microscale model of the Net

I hope you enjoy it! Link

The Berkeley Pit Mascot

The Berkeley Pit Mascot 04/14/2005 06:53 PM
"The Auditor", an amazing dog, lived a long life in one of the harshest environments, the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana. The mine site has no vegetation, the water in the pit is full of heavy metals and very acidic (pH 2.5) and yet the Auditor held on long after mining operations halted. He has inspired a web site and even an art project.

Clueless in Berkeley

Clueless in Berkeley 07/12/2004 04:07 PM
I have written before of my love for my favorite feature in the Berkeley Daily Planet, the Police Blotter. Today while reading it, I ran across this absolute gem which caused me to lose a mouthful of hot Peet's coffee in front of the Cheeseboard. Knife-Wielder Earns Cellular Domicile A 48-year-old Berkeley man found himself with a new and tightly confined residence after police busted him for flashing a knife at a fellow citizen near the corner of Center Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way at 9:37 a.m. Friday. The felon seems to have overlooked that building on the corner and all those blue-clad badge-wearing folks who pass through its portals en route to their black-and-white cars. (For those of you unfamiliar with Berkeley geography, our new police headquarters is at the corner of MLK and Center.) How do you get a job writing stuff like this? I want one. It made my day....

Berkeley DB Java Edition 1.4.5

Berkeley DB Java Edition 1.4.5 05/03/2004 10:45 AM
A transactional Java database.

Berkeley on Joel Spolsky

Berkeley on Joel Spolsky 02/10/2004 02:56 AM


One of the great things about living in Berkeley is that a lot of interesting people come to town, from political figures giving talks on campus to writers at Cody's to musicians playing at Freight and Salvage, and if you are at all adventurous you can hear and meet many of them. Tonight Berkeley was host to a leading light from the small world of software product and project management, (which also happens to be my profession, to the extent I have one), Joel Spolsky, who writes a well-regarded weblog on software management, Joel on Software. The venue was a funny one, a cafe called Au Coquelet that also served as my alternative office and favorite lunch spot for the eight years that I had an office around the corner. It is a business person's lunch place and a student's dinner and study and hang out place. So I walked into the cafe tonight and looked around for the Joel group -- like any other geek, I was too shy to ask anyone, but when I spotted a big table lined entirely with males, mostly in their mid-twenties to early forties, not too well dressed, predominantly European-American, I knew that I had found the geek gathering. It was a curious scene. Joel was ensconced at the first table, attempting to swallow bites of foot between responding to questions. Latecomers like myself were filling in the table around the corner, where we slowly warmed up to each other by discussing computers in education and citing favorite Joel essays like The Law of Leaky Abstractions, 12 Steps to Better Code, and Fire And Motion. The crowd included its share of local luminaries, such as Berkeley tech writer Scott Mace, Salon Managing Editor Scott Rosenberg, Ten Speed Press founder Phil Wood, Perl Guru Sriram "Ram" Srinivasan, plus the usual crowd of dot-com crash victims, cashed-out retirees and survivors looking for the next interesting thing that I run into at any tech gatherings these days. Next to us were two undergraduate women, who slowly got more and more alarmed as more men kept arriving and hauling over tables, eventually enveloping them on three sides, at which point the women got up and left.

It is always fun meeting someone whom one knows only through their writing, and to compare their online persona to their physical one. In his writing in Joel on Software, Joel always comes across as a little Olympian, delivering his deep insights from his vast experience. Actually, I suspect that he just thinks more analytically about his experience than most of us, and he writes very well. His online persona is calm, considered, and wise. As another C alifornian reviewer noted, even though his website sports a picture of the skyline of Seattle, Joel Spolsky in person definitely comes across like a New Yorker, especially when surrounded by a sea of Californians. He spoke rapidly, intensely, bobbing his head as he held forth with opinions on all matters technical, changing topics with every other sentence, and punctuating each topic with a wisecrack. Although claiming exhaustion from his travels, he was the most energetic person in the room, and he was clearly performing, and performing well. He seemed to enjoy his performance as well, and he was good at it. Talking to him, it was clear that he would be very hard to best in an argument, because, as anyone who reads Joel on Software knows, he has a lot of intellectual horsepower and can express himself very well, but also because he clearly has a lot of stamina for arguing, and would be hard to outlast. The major deviation that he exhibited from the New York stereotype was his politeness. After he finished his meal he got up and moved to another table to talk with some of the other folks who had come, then after a while moved to the next table. He was as attentive to the questions of the twenty-something programmers as he was to those of the local luminaries. One of the things that was curious was to see the crowd (myself included) surrounding Joel and treating him like a Delphic Oracle, asking him "what are Mozilla/Firebird's chances of establishing browser competition again(good), how do you decide what features to put in the next version of Fog Buzz (whatever features the lack of which clearly blocked sales of the last version), what would you use for developing a cross-platform GUI desktop app (don't know). After all, even if he is smarter than I am he probably isn't any smarter than many of the people I've worked with over the years. What's the difference? He writes, frequently and well. It's nice to know that writing still can bring authority, as well as a bit of celebrity. All in all, a very pleasant and informative evening. Thank you Joel for organizing it. Cross posted on The Berkeley Blog

Flashing, Berkeley style

Flashing, Berkeley style 08/20/2004 11:35 PM
From the ever amusing Berkeley police blotter: Exposer Stalks BART Rider A woman arriving at the North Berkeley BART station last Friday afternoon found herself being pursued by a not-so-gentlemanly fellow who exposed his shortcomings before fleeing in his wheelchair. Only in Berkeley can I imagine a wheelchair flasher....

New: Berkeley Packet Monitor 1.0

New: Berkeley Packet Monitor 1.0 07/27/2004 11:24 AM
Berkeley Packet Monitor is a network traffic monitoring and diagnostic utility that uses the Berkeley Packet Filter devices built into Mac OS X.

Lab Notes from Berkeley Engineering

Lab Notes from Berkeley Engineering 05/12/2004 10:00 AM
In this issue of Lab Notes, my research digest from UC Berkeley's College of Engineering:

* A.I. systems that uncover the needles in haystacks of data, from software bugs to hidden genes.
* Using x-ray microscopes to design concrete Band-Aids for decaying buildings and bridges.
* Medical imaging via modem that will enable remote village doctors to perform minimally-invasive cancer surgery.
Link

ScienceMatters@Berkeley for April

ScienceMatters@Berkeley for April 04/06/2005 12:35 PM
David Pescovitz: I hope you enjoy my latest issue of ScienceMatters@Berkeley, including:

* Berkeley's Star Planet Hunter: Geoffrey Marcy's search for other Earths

* Tiny Test Tubes and Nanoscale Membranes: Building blocks for longer-lasting batteries and supersensitive poison detectors

* Yosemite Then and Now: Tracing the path of a century-old wildlife survey

Link

Saturday is Cal Day (and bakesale day)
in Berkeley

Saturday is Cal Day (and bakesale day)
in Berkeley 04/17/2004 02:23 AM
This Saturday is Cal Day, when UC Berkeley has an open house all day. Although it is supposedly geared towards prospective students, it's lots of fun for everybody. For the autodidact, there are lots of free lectures and demonstrations. I'd recommend Professor Tyrone Hayes' lecture, Genetically Modified Weeds, Hermaphroditic Frogs, and Premature Babies, if you can get yourself to the Valley Life Sciences Building by 9 AM. Cal Day is also a great place to bring kids for the day. There are lots of fun hands-on activities for kids of all ages. We went last year (in the rain) and had a blast. Based on last year's experiences, I would especially recommend Activities in Archaeology at the Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Ave. for elementary school age children. The university students were very sweet, and they really set things up nicely for kids, with lots of interesting activities, and the kids get to take the home the "artifacts" they discover. The parents can watch hand tools being made from obsidian and flint, just as our ancestors did 10,000 plus years ago. Another good pick is visiting the usually pricey Art Museum or Lawrence Hall of Science, both of which are free for the day. It would be hard to go wrong taking a kid to Cal Day. As a final bonus, MoveOn activists are holding their Bake Sale for Democracy Saturday, and there are 6 bake sales being held within a mile of campus. Rumor has it that the founders of MoveOn will be at Kerry's Benvenue Bake Sale for part of the day. Highly recommended....

Emerging Technologies at Berkeley

Emerging Technologies at Berkeley 03/06/2004 01:57 AM
I spent today at the University of California at Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Departments Annual Research Symposium. It was a blast, in many ways the academic equivalent of the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference I went to two weeks ago. Instead of the O'Reilly fare of Robots and Quantum Dots and Programmable Matter and Emergent Democracy Worldwide, they had Smart Dust, Electric Clothes (Transistors made from woven textiles), Circuits printed on Plastic and Technology Research for Developing Regions. While some of the subjects were similar to ETech, the crowd and format were very different. While anyone who stumbled across the website in the last month could register and attend for free, the crowd consisted almost entirely of invited academics and members of the research divisions of large corporations, plus a few Europeans and a very large crowd from Finland. Instead of young hackers giving talks then joining the audience, there were graduate students who gave presentations or demos but then went back to their labs/cubes. The conference appeared to be primarily Berkeley CS and EE showing their stuff to current and potential sponsors and collaborators. Nothing wrong with that, and I was delighted with the chance to attend and see the profs and grad students present their research results. I was very impressed with the breadth of the research being done, and with the number of labs that are scattered around town, working on things as different as extremely low power self organizing sensors connected by wireless networks to very interesting design methodologies for real-time fault tolerant software. I suspect that the people who tied up Sprint's application to put up 3 cell antennas on a building in Berkeley for 2 years have no idea of all the wacky and creative things that the UC wireless researchers are up to with radio in Berkeley. I probably won't get a chance to write up my notes, but if I don't and you are interested, I highly recommend the three (1, 2, 3) talks mentioned above, all of which are archived on the Berkeley CSEE web site....

Another issue of ScienceMatters@Berkeley

Another issue of ScienceMatters@Berkeley 07/19/2004 11:47 AM
My latest issue of ScienceMatters@Berkeley is now online. While my Lab Notes site highlights interesting engineering research, ScienceMatters explores the physical sciences, biology, and chemistry. Inside this month's issue:

* The Cellular Mechanic
* An Explosive Theory About Volcanoes
* The Mathematics of High-Tech Highways

Link

ScienceMatters@Berkeley launches

ScienceMatters@Berkeley launches 06/17/2004 11:36 AM
Based on the model of Lab Notes, my online research digest from UC Berkeley Engineering, we've now launched a new publication to focus on the sciences at the university. In ScienceMatters@Berkeley, I'll report on mind-bending research in physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics.

In the premier issue:
* Crystallizing Nanoscience
* Hunting the Achilles' Heel of Hepatitis
* The Mysterious Matter of Dark Matter

If hope you enjoy it! If you do, please feel free to subscribe to the email or RSS ScienceMatters digest. Link

Lab Notes from UC Berkeley Engineering

Lab Notes from UC Berkeley Engineering 01/16/2004 11:35 AM
In my new issue of Lab Notes from UC Berkeley:

* Software that recognizes faces in the news
* A satellite to unravel the mysteries of dark matter
* High-performance computer chips that don't melt
* The father of Fuzzy Logic
* and more... Link

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