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Barcamp Nashville. Barcamp is a gathering of people for the purpose of
sharing knowledge, experience, and information on internet
technologies. I attended in 2008 and the related Podcamp Nashville
held this past spring.

I met a man who said that the Bible and the iPhone changed his life. I
met a man who did not know who Ram Dass is. I met a man who had not
heard of the TED Talks. Actually, these were the same man. He was a
marketing executive. He was a nice guy though, maybe he will sponsor
my podcast if he sees this.

Two of the sessions I attended were informative and helpful:

Most of us know what wikis are. And everyone know what Wikipedia is.
But did you know that the idea for wikis came from an Apple technology
called Hypercard? Hypercard is from the 1980s, not exactly a database,
not exactly a slide show, but a kind of combination of the two. It was
very popular. Wikis have a technology of their own. Worth looking
into. The presentation - and with set up and Q&A, they are only about
20 minutes long - was by Rex Hammock, http://rexblog.com

The other session was on open source radio broadcasting. Ogg Vobis is
the open source audio format that makes this possible. I believe open
source projects are going to be more and more the standard and open
source radio will take off in the near future. I can certainly see
myself using this format. Let me now recommend getting the ogg vorbis
plug-in for your computer. Here is one place to find the plug-in to
allow iTunes to play ogg vorbis files and streams:
http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/ I’ll also ask Apple to include the
ogg vorbis component in future updates of iTunes. The presentation was
by Nicholas Young, http://nicholasyoung.com

There was another session I attended, somewhat by accident, in the
informal break room. It was given by the extremely enthusiastic “Luke,
like Skywalker.” His website is http://awesomeinc.org which is
focussed on mobile applications.

The after party presenters at “Ignite” were all excellent. “Luke, like
Skywalker” (Luke Murray) gave the final presentation and people I
talked with loved his talk as a finale.

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