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Neon Fever Dream

by Eliot Peper

I love the authenticity of characters' experiences & feelings I have enjoyed how Eliot's books authentically incorporate various elements of real life within his fiction. In his first books, I think he quite accurately reflected many a...

Uncommon Stock: Exit Strategy

by Eliot Peper

Swell ending Eliot wraps up the third book with plenty of tension & good writing. I couldn't keep away from it and read it in about 30 clock hours (with off and on reading). He's been well schooled by his research (thanks, Brad) on wha...

Uncommon Stock: Power Play

by Eliot Peper

Still fun, but... Book two, read in the day following reading book one. It's still accurately describing the startup world, but now emphasizing the crime / whodunnit. That's ok, but it's worth noting in my review. Two slight exasperat...

How We'll Live on Mars

by Stephen L. Petranek

All an average person is looking for on the topic The author itemizes the various challenges associated with humans inhabiting mars, and the best thinking (to date) on how we'll be able to tackle them. There is some attention paid to th...

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Good tunes at BADcamp 2011

Submitted by batsonjay

on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 01:08

Yeah, yeah - I know it's anti-climatic to only read about it and not hear the evidence.

But the set(s) at the BADcamp 2011 Evening of Drupal were both really great, and really fun for me. There were two of us spinning - me and DJ Spinnerty. As I've done with my buddy James Millington, we set up my laptop as a remote drive to his computer (so we could get at both his music and mine), and used his laptop to play all the tunes (using Serato), trading off as the evening progressed. (Oh, yes - the image here is from Dan's own site - not mine. He admits the image is a bit tongue-in-cheek. :-)

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BADcamp 2011 - tech & deep

Submitted by batsonjay

on Mon, 10/17/2011 - 18:27

I'm going to be at BADcamp 2011 in Berkely this coming weekend. I have three agendas:

Speaking. I'm giving a talk on Web Engagement Management. "What," you say?" If you're an average Drupalist, you may not have heard this term - yet. But you will a lot, soon. It's the term that closed-source CMS' are using to frame where they're headed - which is to empower marketing more. I will have a bunch more to say on this, but come to the session to hear the basics.
Listening. In support of the Web Engagement stuff, there's a bunch of things I want to hear - from talks on mobile theming, mobile

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