February 27th, 2009 02:52pm
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Bio: Doug Moeller co-founded Autonet Mobile after designing a wireless Internet router that turns any car into a WiFi hotspot. The router has come a long ways since he designed it on his kitchen table in Santa Rosa. It now is equipped with a GPS unit, and is configured to take the best Internet signal from one of three national cell phone service providers.
Web site: www.autonetmobile.com
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February 18th, 2009 11:25pm
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Bio: Eric McHenry is the chief technology officer of the city of Santa Rosa. A former Agilent executive, he joined the city in 2005 and has led an effort to put more city services online. Recently, he announced an ambitious plan to geocode every fixed asset the city owned. As part of that plan, the city created is own high-res Google Street View like system of all Santa Rosa.
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February 16th, 2009 01:48am
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On Sunday, I put away my reporter’s notepad and instead stuck a Blackberry in my pocket to report live from the Tour of California event in Santa Rosa.Using a combination of text messaging and a Twitter account, I roved through the booth-lined streets of downtown Santa Rosa and Rail Road Square and sent out messages I thought might be useful to people.
For anyone not familiar with Twitter, read this …
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February 11th, 2009 09:08pm
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Bio: Carl Malamud runs
Public.Resource.Org, a Sebastopol
nonprofit that puts government information on the Internet. In the
early 1990s, he ran Internet Talk Radio, the first radio station on the
Internet, and soon after helped push the SEC into posting all public filings
online. In 2008, Public.Resource.Org was responsible for publishing 32.4
million pages of government documents and 588 government films on the
Internet.
Web site: public.resource.orgTwitter: @CarlMalamud
Pressdemocrat stories about Carl:Downloading the law, one document at a …
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February 10th, 2009 01:14am
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The Santa Rosa Junior College is establishing an inexpensive way to
get started on a career in designing video games, and it is asking the North Bay video game
industry to help design its courses.
The SRJC plans to offer a two-year program in video game
production, which will launch in the Fall of 2009. Courses will range from
programming to audio and artistic creativity. The SRJC will offer both an A.A.
degree and a certificate. …
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February 5th, 2009 02:00pm
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This is the inagural “Tapping the Tech Hive.” The format might change a bit as I tweak it based on reader/editor/and participant feedback. Also, I want to create space for one question to be submitted by readers. To do that, I’ll need to start lining up Q&A participants in advance, so people can submit specific questions via Twitter, email, etc.
Bio:
Dane Jasper is co-founder of Sonic.net, a Santa Rosa ISP founded …
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February 3rd, 2009 04:35pm
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Update: Nine days after O’Reilly Media emailed me this press release touting strong growth of its Maker Media division, I learned (via MediaBistro ) that is was ceasing print publication of Craft Magazine for economic reasons. Here is the full announcement from Publisher Dale Dougherty.
I later wrote this brief article for the paper: Craft magazine in Sebastopol plans to stop its quarterly print edition and will move publication totally online. …
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February 3rd, 2009 01:47am
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Every night, for 33 days, her boyfriend strapped on a head lamp, got out his camera, and photographed her cervix.For O’Nell, who is a 26-year-old midwife apprentice from Sebastopol, Calif., it was a do-it-yourself science experiment to document the contortions of her reproductive system.The cervix functions like a tunnel between the uterus and vagina, and one end is visible to anyone with the mind to look – although few do. …
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Covering all things geek, with an eye on Sonoma County and the rest of San Francisco’s North Bay. Nathan Halverson covers Internet technology, emerging technology and personal technology for The Press Democrat, a New York Times Company newspaper.
