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Call me a geek but I am excited. Not only is next week SXSW (where I heard Glenn Ross will be live blogging the event) but I also just learned about Austin’s BarCamp III. Looks like we might get the chance to talk about our newest user-generated content community as well. This is the perfect audience to to talk about ...

Exactly one week from today Randal and I will speaking at SXSW on "The Future of Volunteers".  Our panel will feature a frank and honest look at what non-profits need to do to recruit the next generation of volunteers. You know all those ladies and gents that are your Board of Directors right now? Well they won’t be around forever. ...

What I got out of listening to Craig Venter at The Long Now Foundation lecture last Monday night is a couple of perception shifts about life on Earth that sort of make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. You have to understand that Venter is a guy who has no qualms about busting through to new ...

The other day I posted about some research going on to build unimaginably fast super-computers. The calculation numbers are so mind-boggling that it’s hard to relate to. But research done awhile back on building powerful but relatively inexpensive clusters of computers is paying off by improving a technique of breast cancer detection that wasn’t feasible in the past. Researchers from ...