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Day Two Snippets from Foo Camp

As the Sebastopol darkness deepens and I sit awaiting the end of Werewolf (this time, I was an unjustly accused villager) - here are my favorite snippets from Day Two of Foo Camp:

Chumby Reveals Inside Beta at Foo Camp

At this year's Foo Camp, Chumby Industries CEO Steve Tomlin and co-founder bunnie huang revealed the highly anticipated, pre-beta chumby. The chumby is a small, wifi-enabled, Linux touchscreen device designed for "people who want the Internet around them all the time." Applications include social networks, blogs, auctions, and so forth - essentially, anything that you want to include in your Internet highlight reel.

Digg Shares Lessons on User Revolt Management

Over time, it's been primarily civil within the digg community. Recently, however, there was a minor furor around the HD-DVD encryption key being distributed via digg. Visits to the site were dominated by a vocal minority on one side, regulators on the other, and digg stuck in the middle with its hijacked home page. Digg CEO Jay Adelson hosted a conversation today at Foo Camp to discuss their experience.

Foo Camp, Day One: Personal Highlights

Last night marked the opening of Foo Camp: O'Reilly Media's annual get-together of technologists, futurists, cultural creatives, artists, and other folks wonderful. Here's a quick snapshot of memorable bits from last night:

Burning Man Goes Green: Call for Pavilion Participation

Last year's Burning Man community spoke loudly about starting efforts to make the event more eco-friendly. How can we reduce the playa's carbon footprint? How can we recycle or reuse  building materials, food supplies, bottles and cans, or other discards?  Should there be requirements imposed upon art cars? And so on.