What is SocialWeb FooCamp? This is literally a camp out in the grounds of O'Reilly Media were geeks and nerds from across a spectrum of industries get together to brainstorm life in the age of Facebook, Google and Twitter.

Seriously. This is all we're talking about : Facebook, Google, Twitter. For all intents and purposes of this crowd, blogging is dead or on its last leg. A part of the crowd wants to put the last bullet in the head of blogging: Facebook totally looks at themselves as competing with Blogger (Google), WordPress and Twitter and want to take over as "the blogging platform" of the web. Others don't even consider blogs relevant to the conversation. The rest? There's people here working with Drupal, Blogger, Six Apart and WordPress (among other big and micro-blogging platforms) who are spending time thinking and re-purposing blogs in this brave new and fractured "social media" world.
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As I am about to embark in another round of presentation making, someone twittered the following video :

and it was through this awesome slideshow of funny that I found Tim Lee, my new favorite and hawt PhDer :

To make sure every woman in the New York City area who is interested in new media and technology comes to She's Geeky, we're offering not one but two offers :

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Register and joins us at the Microsoft NYC Headqaurters on December 5th to 7th at 1290 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Floor). The schedule is as follows : December 5th:
Cocktail party begins at 5pm, unpanel at 6m, networking continues 7pm+

December 6th:
Doors Open at 8:30, Agenda Making at 9:30 (please be there for this) the day ends with a closing between 5-5:30pm (please plan to stay for this)

December 7th:
Doors open at 9:30, Agenda Making at 10:30, closing by 3pm.

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If you’re any of these things, you’re invited to come to She’s Geeky to:

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We have one unconference, one competition and one networking conference all cooking in our burners. Come check it out!

Nota Bene : All text is taken verbatim from each event's site. I will be posting about each event shortly.
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It's not shocking to see how the corporate masters of people like Ann Coulter and Don Imus to insist in selling them as valuable assets. They prop up and pay bigots because they represent millions of dollars. Hate is the road most travelled.

Hate is easy to exploit, it's an emotion that replicates faster than love thanks to the addictive qualities of adrenaline. Capitalism is based on the mining of adrenaline through the celebration of hate, the use of addictive substances in food, the exploitation of fear.

The big companies behind the likes of Rush Limbaugh will make sure their well-oiled money machines keep on raking in the benjamins. What is shocking to this cynic heart is to see how civil rights advocates fall for the money crap when it comes to gauging the worthiness of a cause.

It's still astounding to me to hear and read people on the left rationalize keeping racists and mysogynists by the measure of money they generate or popularity they have. More than once I've seen people on TV or read emails of people who said "why bother" when it comes to calling for Imus' oust.

And you know this is not just on big media outlets --FireDogLake is the perfect example of the racist pox on the lefty blogosphere being defended by many because of their popularity and for the amount of money they've raised for democrats.

Sigh.

Don Imus' money machine should be unplugged in much the same way Ann Coulter's and Rush Limbaugh's. Here's what Chris Rabb has to say about that :
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