Triangle Business Journal announces that the new Cheerwine distributor Pepsi Bottling Ventures will be making Cheerwine and Diet Cheerwine available in fountains that also serve Pepsi beginning in April. Look for the wine dark beverage be in NC and SC’s Myrtle Beach distribution areas.
Archive for March, 2010A couple of months back, I did a little interview with the Renaissance Computing Institute aka RENCI for their Renaissance People series. I’ve worked with them on a number of projects including their business incubator Launchpad and with some visualization examples (Jeff Heard’s neat-o spheres of ibiblio is one side project from that work). Open Government and the World Wide WebThe opening ceremony of WWW2010 will include a plenary panel offering perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic on the move to make data more open and accessible on the Web (data.gov and data.gov.uk). The panel features inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee; Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero; Professor James Hendler of RPI, who will moderate the discussion; UNC professor and Director of iBiblio.org, Paul Jones; Andrew McLaughlin, Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Executive Office of the President; and University of Southampton Professor Nigel Shadbolt, Director of the Web Science Trust and of the Web Foundation.
Our family joke: “He knows so little, yet he says so much” is meant to be a kind of zen koan, an insult at one reading and praise at the next. I get that kind of reaction when I come home and describe the talks and classes I’ve done. This past week was one example of many parts of my life colliding — not so much like legos that might eventually click into place, but like a grab bag of tinkertoys, legos and mechanos. Not documenting everything by far (skipping Public Health presentations that I was only attending, class which you are welcome to check out, the WCHL community lunch, a dinner with the good INTRAHealth OPEN folks, and a murder mystery solved), but looking at two that have some documentation to present, I spoke at the UNC Law Cyberlaw class about FLOSS licensing — slides below — and at the Society for Collegiate Journalism National Conference at NCSU — great writeup by Tyler Dukes linked from the lovely dog picture below.
For the past two days, I’ve had the Geek Quote of the Day on The Great Geek Manual site. Both came from the new Pew Internet and American Life Report called “Imagining the Internet IV.” While I’ve imagined the Internet for Pew three other times, I don’t think that my imaginings have gotten such nice pass-along attention. Thanks, GGM. Also with great geek futurings is Fred Stutzman who will no doubt become quoted as well.
One correction: The quotes are not in the Structure section of the report but in the Future of Intelligence section also known as “Does Google Make Us Stupid” My claim is that most of us don’t need Google for that ;-> I got one of the best speaker’s gifts ever given by a conference thanks to Bess Sadler Of
Here’s one globe representing the Groklaw World. More globes and a better explanation at Jeff’s RENCI Visualization blog. |














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