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Burning Man and geek culture

total disagreement.At the urging of family members who love Burning Man and have been going for years, I attended the festival last year. The whole thing is a joke.It's a big party, basically. The "art" is for the most part incredibly bad. You have to give about 10% of the...

Tags: Burning Man, Burning

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Burning Man: What's the fascination for Silicon Valley?

Burning Man: What's the fascination for Silicon Valley?Nice backslap to your guest!Thanks for the laugh! Charlie's guest Jennifer mad a brash comment to him about being old enough to remember a particular movie. Then he returns to serve with a backhand remark about over-caffeinated techies just after she...

Tags: Burning, Burning Man

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Burning Man backs solar-power project for Nevada towns

Burning Man backs solar-power project for Nevada townscan the Colquitt County Arts Center get in on this deal? Georgiathey need help with the power bill and the city is reluctant to help.http://www.colquittcountyarts.comsure would be nice for the kids and the community.:).

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Discussion threads 2007-12-20

Burning Man backs solar-power project for Nevada towns

Nonprofit partners with renewable-energy venture and a Nevada power company to install solar arrays in public buildings. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday in Gerlach, Nev., members of the Burning Man community are expected to demonstrate that they mean what they say when they say they try to...

Tags: Community, Solar Energy, CBS Interactive Inc., Nevada, Burning Man, Black Rock Solar, Lovelock, Telecom & Utilities, Daniel Terdiman, Energy sources, Business Structures, Finance

News items 2007-12-17

Burning Man's green leanings

Can I write off Burning Man next year? The annual festival aka portable community took on a decidedly green hue this year, with multiple exhibits dedicated to the exploration of alternative energy. I wasn't there, can't take credit for reporting about it. So I'm suggesting this...

Tags: Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-09-04

Images: Burning Man in 3D

Using Google Earth, Burning Man has created a way to showcase art projects and theme camps in a 3D, digital environment.

Tags: Burning Man, 3D

Image galleries 2006-10-04

Burning Man: What's the fascination for Silicon Valley?

Reporters' roundtable: Tech industry and Burning ManIn 1986, on a San Francisco beach, about 20 participants got together to burn an 8-foot structure of a man, and thus was born Burning Man. Twenty years later, the festival, which now takes place in the northern Nevada desert, is expected to attract...

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Videos 2006-08-25

Burning Man vets bring Wi-Fi to Katrina region

Burning Man vets bring Wi-Fi to Katrina regionThe Right IdeaHere is a perfect example of what technology is able to achieve. With the initiative that the Burning Man volunteers show, here, we receive a glimmer of hope. I concur, that means should be developed to make such resources available to...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Burning Man, Katrina, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2006-03-02

Burning Man vets use mobile-hot spot tech in Katrina region

Colleague Daniel Terdiman writes today about an effort by Tom Price and around 20 other veterans of the yearly Burning Man outdoor festival to bring order to another, far more serious type of chaos set in the outdoors.That would be to bring order to the still massive communications needs...

Tags: Burner, Burning Man

Blog posts 2006-03-01

Burning Man meets The Dicky Box

Burning Man meets The Dicky BoxAll well and goodThe Burning Man Festival is a little too "in your face, if you don't get it it's not for you" artsy for me. But what I'm wondering is, what is the connection between this article and the business aspects of IT?Carl Rapson

Tags: Dicky Box, Burning Man, Burning Man Festival

Discussion threads 2005-09-08

Photos: Burning Man

Man living in a box is just one of many tech-driven art projects at Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.

Tags: photograph, festival, Nevada, Burning Man

Image galleries 2005-09-08

Photos: Burning Man

Man living in a box is just one of many tech-driven art projects at Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.

Tags: photograph, festival, Nevada, Burning Man

Image galleries 2005-09-08

Additional Resources

AOL/Facebook in the Enterprise

In 1994 America Online trailed Compuserve and Prodigy, a third subscription option in how you hooked your modem up to the internet to go cyber surfing. What propelled AOL to global dominance by the end of that decade was their proprietary 'rainman' platform, which enabled partners...

Tags: Facebook, America Online Inc., Shop Logic, Business World, Internet, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-18

One second: The time it takes to wipe three years of work

Not all that worriedWith the cost of drives these days, and with Raid cards or raid capable Motherboards at such cheap prices these days, I've setup mine with a RAID 1 mirror.Plus an automated weekly backup.I spend alot of time and money on my music (just sitting there ripping my...

Tags: Backups, backup, Live Mesh, RAID, Acronis, hard drive

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager

There's been a good flow of conversation around the role of 'community management' in large companies recently, with an underlying idea that although it's a tough job things will work out if the right people are involved, although Dennis Howlett recognises the danger of burn out....

Tags: Exec, Community Manager, Underling, Underlings, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-03

Celebrating 27 years of the Compact Disc: Does anyone really care?

Today is the 27th birthday of the Compact Disc, and I hate to say it, but I think this medium is getting a little old. Perhaps 27 years in CD time is actually like turning 87 in human time: it had a good go in the...

Tags: Sony Corp., CD, Disc, Orchestra, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Works of John Galsworthy. FREE Author's biography & play in the trial 11.1 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-14

Photos: At Burning Man, flames, fireworks, and rocketship fail

The annual desert art festival, this year themed "Evolution," once again showcased human ingenuity, creativity, and of course, that all important element, fire. by CNET News.com

Tags: CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-09-08

Global dimming and climate change

Control through Cap & Trade or TAX & Trade...Yes, rapid unemployment through crippling coal burning power-plants and high energy prices.Nothing like Czars who are answering to no one except our new 'leader' with dictator power...Now the genius is going to tax people over $200k for health-care meaning more job losses...Socialism...

Tags: Taxes, Personal finance, Benefits, climate change, Czar

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...

Tags: Google Inc., Andrew Nusca, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Data Centers, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Storage, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-09-03