http://pronoiac.org/recordings Just another geek in San Francisco Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:26:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Silicon Valley Homebrewed Mobile Phone Club, held in conjunction with the Emerging Communications Conference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Mark Wood talked about the Cell Broadcast System, for broadcasting text messages over geographic areas. He's the CTO of CellCast, & he lectures on Disaster Telecommunications at the ... http://pronoiac.org/recordings/2008/06/05/svhmpc-hbmobile-2008-03-12/ This is all surf. There's almost nothing from nearby cars, people, dogs, or seagulls. mp3 - 59 min, 56 meg. http://pronoiac.org/recordings/2008/05/18/2008-05-14-ocean-beach/ I set up another area for my random noodling around, such as recreating an... unusual... font. http://pronoiac.org/recordings/2008/04/22/random-noodling/ Soon after being uncovered as Fake Steve Jobs, Daniel Lyons visited Books Inc. in San Francisco to talk about the experience of writing the blog. He talks about the genesis of the larger-than-life persona, the joys & contortions of working with Forbes, My Little Pony, company access, appearing in slash fanfiction, ... http://pronoiac.org/recordings/2008/04/06/fake-steve-jobs-2007-11-02/ This is the second reading I went to; here's the first. Liz Henry recapped this live. (This is how you liveblog.) In order, the readers this time: Kristin Abkemeier, Ellen Spertus, Jenn Shreve, Corie Ralston, Charlie Anders, Annalee Newitz, and then Q&A. Download the audio (62 minutes, 44 megabytes): MP3 http://pronoiac.org/recordings/2008/03/21/2007-02-01-shes-such-a-geek-reading-2-of-2/ Annalee Newitz & Charlie Anders edited & contributed to "She's Such a Geek," a book about women in domains traditionally viewed as being only for men. This reading took place at City Lights on 2007-01-25. There's a good summary of the event up on the blog for ... http://pronoiac.org/recordings/2008/03/20/2007-01-25-shes-such-a-geek-reading-1-of-2/ Charlie Stross visited San Francisco for a reading & Q&A at Borders - Union Square. This was the last event in his October 2007 tour of the West Coast, in support of Halting State. Here it is on Google Video. If you want to skip the reading, the Q&A starts around ... http://pronoiac.org/recordings/2007/10/23/charles-stross-2007-10-12/ The beginning of Mark Pauline's presentation at the Dorkbot Todd Blair fundraiser was moving. I posted the video over on Google video, & here's the audio as an mp3. Edit: The Dorkbot fundraiser continues, & there's a blog tracking Todd Blair's recovery. http://pronoiac.org/recordings/2007/10/17/2007-10-10-mark-pauline-at-dorkbot-todd-blair-fundraiser/ Jonathan Coulton performed at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, California, on September 14, 2007. I'm one of a few people to post video. Pirates & video links after the cut. See Jonathan Coulton's blog entry for that performance for more information, or other recordings. He ... http://pronoiac.org/recordings/2007/09/24/jonathan-coulton-2007-09-14/ Okay, let me try starting this thing up again. http://pronoiac.org/recordings/2007/09/24/again/