OSCON started today in its new location at the Portland Convention Center, which gives the event a lot of space and a lot of room to grow in the future. A packed line-up and a ton of exhibitors and I'm excited to be part of the happenings this week.

Now that the Emerging Technology conference is over, I have some feedback and parting thoughts to share.

The last day of ETech had some great sessions that focused on how people work and how the mind works from a designer's perspective. These great insights into my own mind will leave me with lots of thoughts to ponder as ETech winds down.

The Maker's Fair at ETech was similar to a classic science fair -- but with much more geek appeal and... a beer in hand.

Are you a Ruby-on-rails fan? If so, you need to check this ruby-on-rails humor link!

ETech Day 3 brings more high order bits sessions about emerging technology in the classroom and a comparison of classical ontologies and newfangled folksonomies.

I thought radio was dead, but now the hackers from the BBC shows us the there is life in radio and that radio may actually be a re-emerging technology.

ETech kicks into high gear with a barrage of short and powerful high order bits talks. Today I'll ponder the ETech theme of Remix while looking at Flickr and Firefox.

The ETech tutorial "Hack Sci-Fi Features into your Car" demonstrated some really simple solutions for adding a car computer to both new and old cars. With simple off the shelf solutions it is possible to hack together innovative computer installations for just about any car.

The recent Slashdot posts about Firefox's trouble to recruit more core developers made me examine the nature of recruiting developers into complex projects. Not surprisingly, its a difficult task!