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NECC Observations: Messenger Bag… my butt!!

July 11, 2006 By jbb Leave a Comment

I love being able to write anywhere at any time and with a free wifi Internet connection throughout the San Diego convention center I was hoping for lots of opportunities to observe and then write. Interestingly, in the one place where one might see the most new cool stuff to write about, the expo hall/vendors’ [...]

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NECC Reflections: Old Wine in New Wineskins

July 11, 2006 By jbb Leave a Comment

I didn’t go to all of the sessions that I had hoped to go to and I found myself in the exposition area watching vendor demoes a lot more than I had intended. All this to say that I felt that a lot of what was presented was about new methods of delivering the same [...]

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NECC Conference Observation: Negroponte Rocks!

July 6, 2006 By jbb 3 Comments

I’ll say it again, Nicholas Negroponte rocks! He was the keynote speaker on the second day of the NECC conference I’m attending here in San Diego. Having heard about the MIT Media Lab for years since my MA from Pepperdine in 2002 and then visiting MIT the past two Novembers, I was aware of this [...]

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