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The Book Lives On

John Battelle's Searchblog

And I love the conferences I do, and I’ll still be doing them (though I’ll be hiring someone to run them full time). ” We spoke on the phone and I learned that the intersection of society and data was her passion – and that her background was an awful lot like mine. My first project out of grad school was Wired magazine.

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Baja con Amigos

Daradiction

Esri is the 2nd largest privately held software company in the US and we do lots of conferences for our users, partners, and so on. I know it it mine. In fact, all that participate would probably say this is their favorite week of the year. The weather and waves have never let us down.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

I'm a contributing editor at PC World Magazine. So in this episode, I'm going to share some of the conversations I've had with leaders of some of those more established villages over the last 50 episodes of the hacker mine. Ollam: so locks at DEF CON and locks it at any hacker conference. I'm also a blogger@forbes.com.

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Dear Marc: Please, *Do* Get Involved

John Battelle's Searchblog

I met Katherine Graham once, at a conference I hosted, and I remain star struck by the institution she built to this day. And every seven days, for more than five decades, Time magazine came to my parents’ home, defining the American zeitgeist and smartly summarizing what mattered in public discourse.

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Sergeant Dennis Fisher and Marine Corps Combat Photography in Vietnam

Unwritten Record

Mine was 0311 which was an infantry rifleman, and I was sent off for advanced infantry training. Wilson Hicks who was the former executive editor of Life Magazine. I met him in his role as advisor to student publications, primarily the Ibis yearbook, Tempo magazine, and Hurricane newspaper.

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DB2 for z/OS: of Stored Procedures and the DB2 MQListener

Robert's Db2

A handy piece of code called the DB2 MQListener enables the bringing together of these two favorite technologies of mine -- DB2 for z/OS stored procedures and asynchronous transaction processing -- and that's what this blog entry is about.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year). Take mining out of the picture and the top industry ("Consulting & Strategy"), pays only 5% more than tech. We lost money on shares. We missed opportunities that would have yielded amazing results.

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