Today's the "day of Genius" in the French Revolutionary Calendar -- a festival to celebrate human reason, innovation, and inspiration. Something that deserves our respect and attention.
My big genius accolades today are for the people who put on the Piknic Electronik Summer Sundays in Montreal. We stopped by the last one for 2006 yesterday, and it was a great time. Our friend John Usher (in town to defend his Ph.D. thesis) came along with us, but we also met friends Jeff and Anne-Marie, Lou and Candace and little Olive, Patti and Meg and Lucinda and Damian and Douglas and... lots of folks.
Piknic remains one of my favorite parties in Quebec. An afternoon dance party under a giant Calder stabile on a beautiful island park in the St. Laurence River? Truly genius! I hope Piknic 2007 keeps growing and going with the mellow, friendly atmosphere that it's had in the past.
tags: montreal piknic electronik party genius
Web 2.0 Conference
So, I'm sad to see that the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco in November is sold out. Maj and I made plans to visit SF during this time just to get to the conference, but I guess it's all filled up.
Now I'm trying to track down a spare ticket or two. Anybody got a miracle?
tags: web2.0 web2con san francisco miracle
R⁶RS
There's now a draft version of the Revised⁶ Report on the algorithmic language Scheme (R⁶RS). It's not much news for folks who read the recent status report on R⁶RS, but it's still pretty interesting. Most of the good ideas seem to have gotten into the spec, and the icky idea of doing immutable pairs seems to be gone now. Check out http://www.r6rs.org/ for a copy of the draft spec and a signup form for the discussion list.
SxSW Panels and Wiki
I'm pretty excited to see that the new 2007 South-by-Southwest Interactive panel voting interface is up today. I proposed a panel called Commercialization of Wikis: Open Community that Pays the Bills, to discuss different ways that private companies are creating wikis and investing in Wiki technology. I was surprised to hear that, for SxSW Interactive 2007, it's the only proposed Wiki panel!
If you're thinking about SxSW 2007, or if you just feel like voting on things, please drop by and give the wiki panel your support.
Ms. P.
I'm really proud of my cousin, Lisa Prodromo, who's a teacher in Chicago. Lisa's from the poor branch of the family that can't afford a "u" at the end of their name, but she's overcome that hardship and is now a really great English teacher. She's got a blog at http://www.msprodromo.com/ for her students, but I'm waiting for her to bust out with one for grownups, too.
Anyways, she was just nominated for the prestigious Golden Apple award, a Chicago-area teachers award. I'm sure she's going to win.
tags: lisaprodromo u msprodromou teaching chicago golden apple
: What's the protocal for commenting here in your bliki? Edit now and ask questions later has always worked for me, so I'll try that. When am I got to get an introduction to the illustrious Chicago Ms. P? We're doing some scheming here in Chicago and would love to include her. --TedErnst
- I don't know! No one's tried it before! I'll send you contact details by email. --Evan