May 2009

The Twitter Diaries: 2009-05-31

May 31, 2009

^ why we really went to San Francisco not feeling well at all, and I have to get on another plane. # @nonstick coslept lots. It was easier than getting up every two hours # @timbray at the least, I wd keep it off your lap! # @amandachapel wd take the backlash article more seriously [...]

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Videoblogging for Sun: Numbers Update

May 30, 2009

Last September I wrote Videoblogging for Sun: By the Numbers. It’s time for an update. So here’s the situation as of today: 21 months: how long I’ve been shooting video for Sun >200 hours (I stopped counting): video in the can (mostly shot by me personally) ~104 hours of video edited (mostly by me) and [...]

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The Things I Do at Sun: Video

May 30, 2009

My official job title at Sun is, I believe, the vague and essentially meaningless “Program Manager.” My Sun business cards say I’m a “Community Specialist and (Video)blogger”. I made that up in a hurry, and wish I could find something more descriptive. But it has long been the story of my professional life that what [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-05-24: Lawrence, KS

May 24, 2009

^rainbow over Lonestar lake, Kansas @India_Insights can you fix the link to the education report? doesn’t work, and I’d like to read that one in reply to India_Insights # sorry for the storm of auto-tweets – I’m following my own advice on Transitioning Your Online Identity http://bit.ly/D87rx # @darrinschaos see you at the Twitter workshop [...]

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Speaking in Chicago in June

May 19, 2009

Here’s the marketing blurb, I’ll write something more personalized… umm, when things calm down a little? June 16-17, Chicago: Join us in Chicago when INNOVATING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT meets EXECUTING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. Communitelligence presents two full jam-packed conference days on the most essential aspects of employee engagement, HR and social media for internal [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-05-17: CO

May 17, 2009

ooh, Wanda – great crack about Palin. http://bit.ly/oogZd # How can CEOs understand social technologies? “”People don’t relate to companies, they relate to people.”” http://bit.ly/BfNfz +1 # @giovanni I suspect that anyone of intern age could teach *us* social media skills. My daughter had >2 million page views before age 17. in reply to giovanni [...]

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Transitioning Your Online Identity

May 16, 2009

7 Steps to Take Before the Axe Falls Though I have no idea what’s in store for me personally, the impending acquistion gives me ample reason to reflect upon the fact that I’ve been through this before. And to wish that someone had given me the advice I’m about to give you. When you’ve been [...]

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Totalview Technologies Update

May 13, 2009

In this video, Nikolay Piskun, Director of Continuing Engineering, Totalview Technologies presents on the company’s debugger solutions as Sun’s HPC Consortium in Dresden, Germany, June 2008. filmed by Deirdré Straughan  , edited by Rich Brueckner

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Sun HPC Software – Clustering Made Easy

May 13, 2009

Presentation by Art Beckman and Makia Minich at Sun’s HPC Consortium, Dresden, Germany, June 2008. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan  download for iPod

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Videoblogging for Sun: Numbers Update

May 13, 2009

Last September I wrote Videoblogging for Sun: By the Numbers. It’s time for an update. So here’s the situation as of today: 21 months: how long I’ve been shooting video for Sun >200 hours (I stopped counting): video in the can (mostly shot by me personally) ~104 hours of video edited (mostly by me) and [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-05-10: CO

May 10, 2009

RT @neilhimself: http://bit.ly/dR4Yv for mothers and daughters on Mother’s Day (okay, it’s a week early…) # Googling “what is the purpose of conversation?” gives a lot of answsers about… conservation. # RT @nytimes: Berlusconi’s Wife Seeks a Divorce http://bit.ly/bHreD Can the country divorce him, too? # can’t figure out with Tweetdeck: how to follow someone [...]

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Gallery: Tirano, October 2007

May 10, 2009

I took so many great pictures during our visit to the Sertoli Salis winery in Tirano (Valtellina) that I couldn’t use them all even in three pages, so here they are. Some are fuzzygraphs because I did not want to use flash on the interior frescoes, but I’ve included them anyway to give you at [...]

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Gallery: The Abbey at Piona

May 10, 2009

We’ve visited this beautiful medieval abbey in northern Lake Como several times, but apparently I’ve never posted any of my photos. This set is from a visit in September, 2007. On in-season weekends, you can reach Piona on the Lake Como ferry.

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SxSWi: Is Privacy Dead, or Just Very Confused?

May 9, 2009

I attended this session because : danah boyd (one of my heroes) and Judith Donath of MIT Media Lab and Harvard’s Berkman Center (whom I happen to know personally) were speaking. Also on the panel (and interesting in their own right): Siva Vaidyanathan (author of the forthcoming “The Googleization of Everything”), who said (among other [...]

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Gallery: A Stroll in Downtown Milan

May 8, 2009

Photos from a March, 2008, visit.

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Gallery: A Spring Day in Lecco

May 7, 2009

Photos I took on a weekend walk around town with Enrico last spring.

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Gallery: St. Maria del Tiglio, Gravedona

May 6, 2009

While in Gravedona, we also visited the medieval church of St. Maria del Tiglio (St. Mary of the Linden Tree).

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I Feel Like Someone’s Watching Me

May 5, 2009

Looked up from a spreadsheet just now, and saw this ^

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Gallery: Gravedona Cemetery

May 5, 2009

^ This (doubtless allegorical) statue just begs for a funny caption. Any ideas? (Click on the image to see a larger version.) While visiting friends on the other side of Lake Como, we stopped by the lakeside town of Gravedona and visited the cemetery. As you can see, family vaults are kept over generations and [...]

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SxSWi Report – Social Media: Connecting with Customers

May 4, 2009

Note: This was listed in the catalog as “Social Media: If You Liked it, Then You Should Have Put a Digg on It…”, which I wouldn’t have bothered to attend, but when I walked by the room the title had changed to “Social Media: Connecting with Customers”, which was a lot more obviously interesting to [...]

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