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Had very detailed instructions, from a textbook, but it’s still rather exciting. Cheesy, yes, but exciting all the same.
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1. Perhaps the coolest website design I’ve seen, an interesting group too: Eyebeam
2. A study: I hate it when they have me pegged.
3. An event that I wish I could be at:
THIS WEDNESDAY: Jimmy Wales, wikipedia founder at NYU this week
Next Wednesday as part of the Computers and Society course and NYU’s Free
Culture series we will have a talk by Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia.
The talk is co-hosted by NYU’s Free Culture, ACM and Women in Computing.
Jimmy will be giving a talk entitled “Free Culture, Transparency, and
Search.” You can read more about Jimmy on his Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimbo_Wales
We expect a full house, so please arrive early in order to ensure you get
a seat.
Here are the full details:
Jimmy Wales
Owner, Wikia, Inc.; Founder, Wikipedia; President, Wikimedia Foundation “Free culture, Transparency, and Search”
Wednesday, January 31st @ 3:30pm – 4:45pm
Courant Institute,
251 Mercer Street, Room 109
Free and open to the public.
The spring semester starts next week – which means that I will be:
- Writing content for the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights website
- Doing new media outreach/marketing for the Opportunity Agenda
- Taking a class at the New School on web animation, flash, and auditing classes on Brazilian film and digital photography
- Working at New York Cares, in both Development and Volunteer Relations
- Redoing the Brazilian Rainbow Group website
- Camping out at the Foundation Center to figure out how to find grants, write proposals, and start an NGO
Promises to be busy, but fun!
