Betsynote: I first ran into Professor Michael Eisenberg last fall when he was introduced to me by multiple folks – the MacArthur Foundation, local Seattle educators, and the NCCE conference organizers.  When I chatted with him in his office (yes, I got lost, even though it was Mary Gates Hall as a landmark) I realized he had a long history of working with Internet literacy and critical thinking, and his pro-library/reference stance...
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San Francisco last week, LA next.  Bing is headed to sunny So Cal for some flash & glam at Jeff Pulver’s 140 Characters Conference at the famed Kodak Theatre.  This conference has its own twist on the regular business conference about twitter  – each speaker is expected to be a character with their own story, and even the panels are really a conversation of melding and competing stories.  The first 140...
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Betsy mugs with ijustine (Justine Ezarik) first day of the 140 twitter conference. Perez Hilton, eat your heart out. The Twitterati Glitterati are out and in force (and they should never really have let me in)! My first big conference after Techcrunch50 was 140 Twitter Conference. Because it was in Los Angeles, it had a totally different flavor that perhaps only Stefan has experienced previously, during the Bing-a-thon. (Bing-a-thon star Olivia...
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