October 28, 2008 at SAP Labs in Palo Alto SDForum held an exclusive Venture Circle Dinner to invited venture capitalist and sponsors. Sanjay Poonen, SVP and GM of Performance Optimization Applications at Business Objects presented “A New Class of Business User Applications: How They Are Relevant In Uncertain Economic Times.” Read the rest of this entry »
On October 23, 2008 at the UC Santa Cruz Extension Cupertino campus, STC Silicon Valley Chapter hosted Joe Malin, who talked about being a technical communicator at Google. Read the rest of this entry »
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STC has a new logo, so I thought I’d find the old one. Read the rest of this entry »
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I voted already. It was easy. I recommend it. When you vote you help people you’ve never even met. Text from DJCline.com Read the rest of this entry »
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Top Ten Silly Ballot Propositions Read the rest of this entry »
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I was on the train. One of the side effects of public transportation is that you don’t go commute in a steel and glass bubble isolated from everybody else’s problems. You are all in the same bubble. Text from DJCline.com Read the rest of this entry »
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People have a lot of silly titles these days. Being manager or vice president or even CEO is not exotic enough. Being an evangelist or wizard is pretty mainstream these days. Thought leader sounds way too cult-like. To stay ahead of the curve I found a new one. I got a card that said “Information Architect & Field Liaison”. I could not take them seriously. Text from DJCline.com Read the rest of this entry »
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The Good News About The Bad News
There is a lot of bad news these days. Here is the good news about the bad news. Text from DJCline.com Read the rest of this entry »
On October 22, 2008 in Palo Alto at Frank, Rimerman and Company, SDForum presented “A Case Study of Learning Lessons for Entrepreneurs”. Jim Chapman of Nixon Peabody moderated panelists Steve Baroni of Frank Rimerman, Lisa Chapman of Nixon Peabody, Dave Dembitz of Keiretsu, Anthony Nassar of Venture Momentum, George Northup of Auction Drop, and Emily Ruvalcaba, of Bridge Bank. Text from DJCline.com Read the rest of this entry »
On October 21, 2008 at the Cabaña Hotel and Resort in Palo Alto SDForum and Astia presented a Clean Tech Breakfast on the “Next Generation Biofuel Feedstock” sponsored by Nixon Peabody and Moss Adams. What’s it all about, algae? Is it algae bloom or bust? Will the scum of the earth make money? Will that stuff growing in your refrigerator help run it? Text from DJCline.com Read the rest of this entry »
On October 21, 2008 in Palo Alto, Loral hosted Dr. Patrick Dixon, Director of Global Change. The keynote speech was “Take Hold Of Your Future – How Space-Linked Communication Will Shape Tomorrow’s World”. Text from DJCline.com Read the rest of this entry »
August 1, 1939 Text from DJCline.com
From: John W. Camel
Astoundingly Cheap Science Fiction Magazine
Flushing, New York
To: D.J. Cline
San Francisco, California Read the rest of this entry »
On October 18, 2008 Barack Obama stood under the Gateway Arch in St. Louis Missouri and spoke to a crowd of 100,000 people. If you look at the photographs you will see the green dome of the old courthouse. A hundred and fifty years ago, they used to auction slaves on the steps of that building. You could probably still see the holes in the pillars where they used to attach the chains. This picture is a sign of how far we have come as a nation. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
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On October 14, 2008 in Redwood City at Fish & Richardson hosted SDForum’s Digital Media Quarterly Series. There are over 3 billion mobile phones in the world. It is a more popular media device than computers or game consoles. Media companies are looking for ways to get applications and content to this potential market. Text from DJCline.com. Read the rest of this entry »
On October 9, 2008 in Mountain View at the Microsoft campus, SDForum’s Search SIG hosted “The Search for Better Health: Empowering Consumer Health”. Matthew Holt of The Health Care Blog moderated panelists Don Chennavasin of Yahoo, John Emerson of Healthline and Saumil Mehta of RightHealth/ Kosmix. They discussed their respective online health information services. Read the rest of this entry »
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” - John F. Kennedy
I had a funny conversation about volunteers today. Read the rest of this entry »
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Christian Slater stars in this NBC television show about a man with two personalities. Read the rest of this entry »
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On October 14, 2008 in Cupertino at Apple headquarters Steve Jobs introduced a new line of laptops. Like the laptops he looked too rich and too thin. Text from DJCline.co Read the rest of this entry »
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It is Columbus Day. Here are some books on Native American art, culture and history. Read the rest of this entry »
“It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.” -REM
There was a lot of bad news about the economy this week. People are calling it the end of the world as they know it. They need some perspective. Read the rest of this entry »
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