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May 30, 2008

Ignite Boston 3

Update: 14 of the presentation slide decks are available at slideshare.

Ignite Boston 3

Last night was the third Ignite Boston, at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square. Ignite is an O’Reilly Media sponsored series of events in various cities around the US. Lots of O’Reilly authors, editors, and various Friends Of O’Reilly gather to talk about tech stuff and generally geek out.

Highlights of the evening (for me):
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April 11, 2008

Benkler, Jenkins, Sunstein: The good, the bad, the ugly

(Note that the order of names in the title is not meant to imply a specific relationship to the adjectives in the subtitle. I went with alphabetical.)

Last night I grabbed the red line over to MIT after work and saw a wonderful event put on by the MIT Communications Forum, entitled: Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly.

Fuzzy photo of Sunstein, Benkler, and Jenkins

Audio from the event (Real Audio format) has already been posted, so if you find my chaotic “liveblogging” style notes below interesting, be sure to check it out. (They will post video on the seminar page soon as well).

My *very rough* notes:
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