Debate-watching party in BerkeleyTuesday, September 30, 2008 by Dave Winer. Raines Cohen is organizing a debate watching party at the Hillside Club in Berkeley on Thursday night. I'm going to help out with some of the technical work. We're going to do it all-digital, with three projected computers, so there will be lots of options for back-channel stuff. Of course there will be IRC and food from the Cheeseboard and the Thursday farmer's market, and a small charge for the rental of the club and eats. I'd like to say it's a non-partisan party, but that would probably be a stretch, given that it is Berkeley. The Upcoming page for the event. |
Dave Winer, 53, pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California. "The protoblogger." - NY Times.
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