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A few news flashes about the week in technology for those who only need the high points.
There was a gathering of about 10,000 close friends who wanted to discuss technology in Austin last weekend. You may have noticed a few BlogHers writing about SXSW. If you missed the whole thing, you can find Podcasts and Videos of the talks at the SXSW site.
BlogHer posts about SXSW include
- Not Eating Out in New York
- From Maternity to Madness
- This Mama Cooks
- All Access Blogging
- Me at Web Teacher
An interesting trend at SXSW was the move toward smart phones and Twitter instead of computers and blogging. Sarah Dopp went so far as to carry a small spiral notebook in her pocket during the event, on which she wrote with a pen! Wow. I'll be interested to see the mix of computers vs. smart phones at BlogHer09.
Microsoft released version 8 of its Internet Explorer browser. Ina Fried at CNET was one of many who announced the release. If you use Internet Explorer, upgrade soon. Download IE8 here and improve your browser.
Do you ever look at popurls to see the latest news? I confess, I do. It consists of links from various famous sites all gathered in one place. Way down at the bottom of the page there's a section called "Voices" that links to personal sites associated with an individual. There are 24 voices, three of whom are women. Yes, three. The famous three are Heather Armstrong from Dooce, Jessica Hagy from Indexed and Tina Roth Eisenberg from Swiss Miss. As Elisa Camahort Page, one of BlogHer's founders, commented at SXSW: Grokking Bloggers: It’s about Love and Underpants she'd love to see the need for BlogHer become obsolete, but it isn't there yet.
There were women at O'Reilly's emerging technology conference, ETech. In a report about the conference at World Changing remarks about emerging technology by Mary Lou Jepsen, formerly of One Laptop Per Child and now of Pixel Qi and Andrea Vaccari of the Senseable City Lab at MIT are summarized.
Lifehacker tells us the most exciting tech news in years. You can now undo Send! If you use Gmail, that is. You've got five seconds to hit undo before you send off that instantly regretted missive. Simply enable the feature in your Gmail settings. Regret no more.
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Virginia DeBolt
BlogHer Technology Contributing Editor
Web Teacher
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@vdebolt
