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title: 'memePDX 005: WordCamp Portland, Second Porch, LinuxCon, Linux Plumbers, Google reCAPTCHA, and I made $384 on Twitter'
date: '2009-09-24T10:34:26-07:00'
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categories:
  - Events
  - Google
  - Linux
  - memePDX
  - Oregon
  - Podcast
  - Portland
  - Twitter
  - Video
  - WordCamp
tags:
  - Linux
  - LinuxCon
  - memePDX
  - plumbers
  - Twitter
  - 'wordcamp portland'
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# memePDX 005: WordCamp Portland, Second Porch, LinuxCon, Linux Plumbers, Google reCAPTCHA, and I made $384 on Twitter

\[HTML2\]It’s Thursday and that means it’s time to unveil a new version of [memePDX](http://twitter.com/memepdx "memePDX"), Portland tech news for those short on time and attention. And you’ll be happy to hear that we took your feedback to heart. We tried to keep it shorter and we tried to keep it more local.

Now there’s still some national stuff going on this week. But for the most part [Cami Kaos](http://twitter.com/camikaos "Cami Kaos") and I are talking about Portland stuff like [WordCamp Portland](http://wordcampportland.org/ "WordCamp Portland"), [Second Porch](../2009/09/21/second-porch-facebook-app-vacation-rentals/ "Second Porch"), [LinuxCon](http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon "LinuxCon"), [Linux Plumbers Conference](http://linuxplumbersconf.org/ "Linux Plumbers Conference"), [Google teaching computers to read](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.html "Google reCAPTCHA"), and [I made $384 or $484 yesterday thanks to Twitter](http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%24484+OR+%24384 "I made 384 or 484 today on Twitter").

So without further ado, let’s get to it.

\[HTML1\]

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