How the WWW First Spread

Everybody who reads this should know that British physicist Tim Berners-Lee developed (actually was head of a team which developed) the World Wide Web in 1991 while at the European physics lab CERN. The article here tells the story of what came next and involves Bay Area physicists at Stanford.

IT Career Group Meeting, Wed., 2/8/2012

We welcome you to join us in the Northgate Mall Community Room between 9 AM and 11 AM. The Community Room is directly above the Subway in the Food Court. Take the elevator beyond the rest rooms off the Food Court and go to the 2nd Floor. Make a U-turn to the right as you come out of the elevator; the Community Room is through the double doors. See you there.

-Warren

Testing 1,2,3 Anyone ?

We're being really optimistic here.

Ok, I am being absurdly optimistic,
but we are getting closer to having
enough of the new Marin Professionals
web site in place to seek someone to
break it for us.

Anyone with interest, please respond.

Too much of a thing : Web Site Scaling

Hey that web site worked just fine until people started using it !
I built it, so I should know : It's solid as a rock.

Given the right circumstances it may sink like one too.

UpScaling a web site may not be a trivial matter.

Here are a few pointers on how to escape with your
professional life and

Avoid Being Crushed By Success

Openings At Santa Rosa Junior College

There are not quite so many technical opportunities, but there
are some. The SRJC has a very good reputation and apparently
still has very nice benefits too. Look here for further enlightenment :

Opportunity Knocks at SRJC

Comcast Community Television : Scratch & Sniff Ayone ?

Amazing.
Comcast is supporting something good ?

Indeed they are and even in our own back yard :

Marin TV provides southern Marin County with it’s own non-commercial community, educational and governmental cable channels. Available on Comcast 26, 27, 30, AT&T U-verse 99 and online on this site. The channels cablecast programming 24/7 to over 70,000 Marin households. We offer all residents of Marin low-cost training and the latest digital tools so they can create cable TV and online media. For schools, non-profits and government agencies, we provide special organizational services and fee-for-service production assistance. Marin is watching Marin TV – are you what’s on?

Mission:

The Community Media Center of Marin (CMCM) strives to educate and advance the way residents, schools and governments connect and strengthen our communities through media.

Strategy:

The Community Media Center of Marin empowers Marin residents, local schools and governments with the education and access to media production tools to communicate effectively with the Marin community through media.

Located at :

819 A Street,
San Rafael, CA 94901
(415) 721-0636

You can go here to both learn about and actually use technology that none of
us use right now.

 Ok, I mean I don't use it, but I have signed up for their orientation
session next Tuesday 2/7 19:00 -> 21:00.

With registration this is open to all residents of Marin.

Go here for more : MORE !

The Dark Side Of Social Media ?

We've seen all sorts of very useful things arise from social media.
Everything from the `arab spring` movements to our own `Occupy
What The 0.1% have not hidden well enough`. It has even helped
a few of us find work.


While this is a very useful means to an end, but one should be careful with that end.
It may or may not be just what it appears to be.

Read on MacDuff :

Flash Mob .....Flash Riot.... 4 what ?