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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 23

Rick Turoczy on December 24, 2008

Most Stolen Electronics – Forbes.com

Via Forbes “Ken Westin will help you find your stolen BlackBerry–and give you an opportunity to mess with the thief who pinched it. His company, GadgetTrak, a Portland, Ore.-based computer security firm, develops software that gives you remote access to a missing gadget.”

Emergency Tweetup for Blood Donations at American Red Cross (Wednesday December 24, 2008) – Upcoming

We’ll bring the cocoa, you bring your arm! Because of the snow and the holidays our donor numbers have seriously dropped this week. We’re in need of intrepid, kind-hearted souls who would like to spend an hour this Christmas Eve giving blood. You’ll be warmly rewarded with cookies, hot cocoa, and the company of fellow Twitter friends.

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 22

Rick Turoczy on December 23, 2008

Writing for WebWorkerDaily and The Holidays

Dawn Foster writes “Many of you already noticed that I have started blogging on GigaOM’s WebWorkerDaily site. Thank you so much for all of the congratulations, well wishes, comments, and more. The plan is to post an article or two a week on a freelance basis. I even got a head start before I left, so I have a couple more posts in the WebWorkerDaily publish queue that should go out sometime next week.”

Looking Forward: Zapproved, Ensequence, more – Silicon Forest

Mike Rogoway’s latest installment of positive Silicon Forest news.

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 18

Rick Turoczy on December 19, 2008

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Via the Beer and Blog, um, blog “This Friday we’ll get together and toast to 2008 as we enjoy the last official Beer and Blog of the year (although people may still show up on the 26th).”

Open source in 2008 in pictures

Via The 451 Group “I was thinking of writing a round-up of the key open source agenda items in 2008 but then I got distracted putting together some graphics, so – two birds with one stone – here’s open source in 2008 in pictures.”

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Get all Nostradamus-esque-ish by exercising your powers of Portland prognostication

Rick Turoczy on December 18, 2008

Silicon Forest 2009So, it’s getting to be about that time. You know. End of the year. Time to start thinking about next year. ‘Tis the season of recaps and predictions.

I’m working on a little “Predictions for Portland 2009″project with a couple of other folks. Of course, the entire Silicon Forest is fair game, too. I just couldn’t stand breaking up that alliteration with factual information.

Given that you’ve got some insight and ideas in this regard, I wanted to invite you to contribute your two cents. You do know what’s going to happen, don’t you?

Well okay then.

All you have to do is comment below with your predictions for the Silicon Forest tech scene next year. Are things going to be dire? Are they going to improve? Who will be the shining stars? Who will rise from the ashes? Who will be the new new media darlings in the coming year?

Easy as that. I might need to follow up with you on your contribution to the discussion.

No concept is too wacky. So have at it.

I eagerly await your powers of prognostication.

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 17

Rick Turoczy on December 18, 2008

I won’t attend OSCON next year « Seek Nuance

John DeRosa writes “I greatly enjoyed OSCON 2008. But I won’t attend OSCON 2009, because its locale was moved from Portland to San Jose.”

Hey Twitter, Please charge me $5 a month.

Matt Youell writes “At a local tech discussion here in Portland a couple of weeks ago, one of the attendees said that if Twitter started charging money, he’d move to identi.ca. His rationale was this: software is easy to change but hardware is hard to change. That thought has stayed in my brain for two weeks now. Is software easy to change? No. Absolutely not. That is a flawed premise.”

My Favorite Technology Blogs and Podcasts

Dawn Foster writes “People often ask about my favorite technology blogs and podcasts, and I was inspired by the recent ReadWriteWeb post on a similar topic to do a post with a few of my favorites. These are in no particular order.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 16

Rick Turoczy on December 17, 2008

Marketplace: Entrepreneurs surviving first recession

VIa Public Radio on Jive Software “Consider this: During the recession of the early 1980’s, Bill Lynch was still in diapers. In the ’90’s recession, he was nerding out in middle school playing computer games. By the time Lynch and his best friend, Matt Tucker, landed jobs in Silicon Valley just out of college, the dot-com boom was well into its heyday and headed for a crash.”

Why OpenID?

Via the Tarpipe blog “There’s a growing discussion around the Web about the future of OpenID and whether it’s really making lives easier for users. The article ‘OpenID Is Here. Too Bad Users Can’t Figure Out How It Works’ on Webmonkey shows some of the concerns users seem to have about this open authentication mechanism”

Free Geek Followup

Current progress on giving back to Free Geek. Your help is still needed. Here are some examples of how others are helping.

Former Jive Software Employee Jim Goings Lands in Healthcare IT – Jobwire

Via ReadWriteWeb Jobwire “Many employees that have been laid off from high-tech companies and software startups are getting other work relatively quickly. One example is Jim Goings, who was Director of IT at Jive Software. Goings announced yesterday that he is now the Director of Technical Support at The Advisory Board Company, Optilink Division.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 15

Rick Turoczy on December 16, 2008

Portland Gets WiMAX Service

Via GigaOm “Web surfers in the Pacific Northwest will soon join the denizens of Baltimore, Md., in their ability to get WiMAX service. Although those in Baltimore are still surfing under the old Xohm brand offered by Sprint, Clearwire plans to launch the first citywide Clear branded service in Portland, Ore., on January 6 — a little more than a month after Clearwire and Sprint completed their spectrum deal, and raised $3.2 billion for a nationwide WiMAX network.”

Why I’m running for the OpenID Foundation BOD

Scott Kveton writes “I’ve been on the OpenID Foundation (OIDF) board of directors since the organization was founded. I was also lucky enough to serve as the Chair over that time and I would love to continue to serve the community in some fashion on the board of directors again.”

WordPress Love: the Portland 2.7 Release Party » Another Blogger

Aaron Hockley writes “Last Friday, Chris O’Rourke and I hosted a release party in Portland for WordPress 2.7. We had around 60 people drop in to hang out, have some pizza and beer, and talk about WordPress. A few folks brought laptops and actually did the upgrade at the party*; even more wanted to just talk about their blogs and pick others’ minds about various bloggy topics. A big thanks to CubeSpace for allowing us to use their facility and helping with logistics.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 14

Rick Turoczy on December 15, 2008

Portland Snow Day Pictures: Grab Your Cameras

Via PDX Pipeline “The Portland Snow Day 2008 was a good one for PDX photographers. Many, undaunted by the flury of frozen percipitation, donned their Portland Boots and got out there. You still have time to get many pics until Portland Snow Day 2009 occurs. Below are several shots around the city, some snow-picture thoughts, reports from the Portland Twitter Storm Team, Trimet updates and a message from our Mayor on how to survive the Portland Snowpocalypse….”

Oregon’s creativity lights up

Via Oregon Live “When Josh Bancroft moved to Oregon a decade ago, the tech community was pretty fractured. Now people meet at Beer & Blog, develop ideas at freewheeling BarCamp conferences and stream into the Bagdad Theater four times a year for Ignite Portland, a deliciously geeky form of entertainment that gives presenters five minutes to pitch an idea.”

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for December 12

Rick Turoczy on December 13, 2008

Let’s Hear It for CubeSpace! | Our PDX Network

Betsy Richter writes “CubeSpace is one of those businesses that’s also successfully transitioned itself into an essential hub as well. Sure, you can rent office space or meeting space by the hour from CubeSpace, and it’s been the place where plenty of technology events happen (WordCamp, BarCamp, Start Up to Side Project, CyborgCamp, etc. etc. etc.)”

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New Legion of Tech board members announced… err tweeted

Rick Turoczy on December 12, 2008

In a very Barack-Obama-naming-his-running-mate-esque moment, I saw Bram Pitoyo congratulate the new Legion of Tech board members in a tweet. I’m struggling to find an “official” post on this , but If texting is good enough for Barack, then Twitter is absolutely perfect for Legion of Tech. [Update] Legion of Tech has posted the new board for 2009.

New Legion of Tech board

The new board members are Amy Farrell, Craig Fisk, Chris O’Rourke, and Chris Pitzer. They join existing board members Josh Bancroft, Adam DuVander, Dawn Foster, Todd Kenefsky, and Raven Zachary.

An advisory committee is being established, as well. Names of the advisory committee were not announced (or tweeted by Bram, either).

Congratulations to the new board members! I know we’re all looking forward to another amazing year of Legion of Tech events.

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