Tiffany:
A few days ago, I sat in on a presentation on Typography from one of our designers, Samantha Warren. It was a run through of the talk she is giving today at SXSW. To be truthful, I wasn't that interested in typography before, but the talk really inspired me to rethink type everywhere I see it - from liquor bottles to cars to posters in the Metro.
Tiffany:
If you missed Wednesday's webinar, you can still listen to the recording. The webinar is entitled Drupal Publishing & Social Media Solutions for Online Publishers and is chock-full of great information.
Tiffany:
In case you missed it - OpenPublish Version 1.5 is now available for download.
Tiffany:
Today we announced the start of beta for our topic-monitoring tool Tattler.
Tiffany:
In his latest podcast, Semantic expert and writer Paul Miller talks with Jeff Walpole, Frank Febbraro and Irakli Nadareishvili. They discuss our work with Drupal, semantic technologies and the recent trend to make Government data more usefully available via open source and semantic tools.
Tiffany:
On Tuesday night, a group of the DC areas leading online news practitioners gathered in a bar (go figure) to learn about the best sites and solutions for covering and digging into the new trend of government transparency. There were great presentations from Washington Post.com's Amanda Zamora and Phase2's Jeff Walpole.
Tiffany:
Yesterday, I mentioned that Phase2's Jeff and Frank will be speaking on a panel this afternoon at the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference. If you are in San Jose, or following the conference from afar, you should check out Tom Tague's keynote this morning on "How Semantic Technologies Introduce a New Paradigm for Interaction." Tague has an incredible ability to explain semantic technologies and their importance to anyone from developers to journalists.
Tiffany:
This week, Phase2's CEO, Jeff Walpole, and CTO, Frank Febbraro are hittin' the west coast for the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference. They'll be speaking on the Open Calais User Group Panel on Tuesday. They will demo OpenPublish, our Drupal installation that uses Open Calais. If you are in San Jose, we hope you'll check out the panel.
Tiffany:
A couple weeks ago, we attended the Editor and Publisher Interactive Media Conference. I've been going to these types of conferences for a long time, as well as following all the trends in media - both on and offline, so there were no big surprises from the speakers. But what did strike me as strange is the technology vendors and choices being made by some media companies.
Tiffany:
We've changed the venue, but it's just down the road at Rhodeside Grill, 1836 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.
Open Mic! Come and share what you learned or took away from Drupalcon. We are interested in hearing from anyone who wants to share - we'll have a screen and WiFi connection available. We hope to see you there, but if you can't make it - send along some ideas to share.
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