Blogger Chromatic debates which sessions to attend, a nice highlight actually:

OSCON Session Thoughts

OSCON speaker Matt Assay talks about his presentations at the conference:

Thinking through the idea further, I’m increasingly convinced that we are at a critical juncture in the evolution of the software industry.

RailsConf Europe speakers blog about their presentations:

Till and Michael, the two founders of MindMeister, will be talking at RailsConf Europe 2007

Damon is enthusiastic about RailsConf Europe:

This September, I have a proposed itinerary for you telecommuting, Ruby-lovin’, Rails hackin’, caffeine-ingesting bedouins…

OSCON speaker blogs about the conference:

Mike Morgan and I will be talking about the process we went through to localize addons.mozilla.org.

Program chair Nat Torkington posted the following:

I’m really looking forward to this year’s OSCON because I think we finally nailed a few things that were troublesome in the past…

An interesting, meaty post about the conference:

Here are some higher-level reflections

Mark Coker filed this story after attending the TOC conference:

Ever wondered what happened to the promise of the ebook?

Blogger Marci wrote a nice piece about TOC:

I spent the past few days in San Jose at the O’Reilly Tools of Change Conference , a techie-meets-publishing idea extravaganza.

Kirk covered the conference and posted several comprehensive stories:

Medialoper’s Coverage of TOC

Ron, the intrepid GallyCat reporter, filed many reports from TOC. Here’s another:

At the “Tools of Change” conference, I had a rep for iRex give me a demo of the iliad eBook device

Another wonderful article by Jody Culkin and Calvin Reid:

By and large they left San Jose, Calif., thoroughly satisfied with the first TOC and looking forward to the next one.

TOC Keynote presenter John Ingram referenced the following announcement made with Microsoft:

Ingram Digital Group announced today the conclusion of an outsource alliance agreement with Microsoft Corp.

Being a program chair is a great deal of work, Sarah comments on the conference:

But I was taken aback this morning to realize that being program chair does not mean you can magically attend simultaneous sessions. Dreadful disappointment.

Tim had the following to say about speaker Manolis Kelaidis:

This morning’s keynote speaker received a standing ovation as he described his project to integrate digital content into physical books via circuits printed in conductive ink on the same page as the text

Reports Calvin Reid and Jody Culkin, continue to cover happenings at TOC:

Day two brought out the stars and visionaries of the digital publishing universe offering historical perspective on everything that was said the previous day.

Authors of The Long Tail blog about what they’re up to while at TOC:

Tomorrow (June 19th), all three members of the BookTour.com team will be at TOC

Tutorial session speaker blogs on the conference:

I’ve arrived at the TOC conference, and gave my tutorial yesterday.

Friend of O’Reilly, Danese, had the following to say about what she’s seen and heard at TOC:

I really wanted to check out this newest O’Reilly Conference

Kassia Kroszer had this to say about her visit to TOC:

Day one of the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference has been both eye-opening and, well, comforting

TOC speaker Bob Pritchett discusses his role at the conference:

I did the rounds of electronic publishing conferences a decade ago (can it be?) and there’s a strong sense of déjà vu.

Ron Hogan, covering TOC for GalleyCat, posted a few mentions of the conference:

GalleyCat’s blogs about TOC

Tools of Change Conference sponsor and exhibitor Adobe, announced the following news from the
conference:

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the release of Adobe® Digital Editions 1.0

Writer and good friend of O’Reilly, Matt Asay writes about OSCON’s 2007 program:

This year Nat and Allison have created the content with Tim’s help, and it looks excellent.

Another fine site, promoting attendance at the Berlin show:

Following on the heels of Railsconf 2007, Railsconf Europe has a hard hitting line up of presentations

Momentum is starting to build in Europe about this event, here is another speaker who is excited to
be presenting at RailsConf Europe:

I’m sure we’ll have a lot of fun… it seems many italian rubysts are attending the event too.

This article does a good job of getting the word out about the conference:

This will be the first official conference dedicated to Ubuntu.

TOC sponsor and exhibitor had this news while at the conference:

O’Reilly Media Uses Copyright Clearance Center’s Rightslink®
To Offer Flexible Content Licensing

Sarah Milstein, program co-chair for TOC blogged about the first day of the conference:

Today was the first day of Tools of Change.

A very nice piece, you have to love the phrase “festival of pratical geekery”, read on:

The first day of the first Tools of Change for Publishing conference, organized by computer book publisher O’Reilly Media, was a festival of practical geekery

TechIQ is covering conferences coming up, here’s what they had to say about Ubuntu:

Ubuntu coverage

Even O’Reilly has news at the TOC conference! Here’s what we have going on while at the show:

In today’s Web 2.0 driven publishing marketplace, it takes new and creative strategies to get authors and their work noticed by web savvy readers.

Mike Rogoway recently wrote about the upcoming OSCON conference:

Oregon’s best-attended annual tech conference

A short, but nice, post from RailsConf Europe speaker Jay Fields:

My talk on Extending Rails to Use the Presenter Pattern /a>

Peter Cooper is getting out the word out about RailsConf Europe:

If you want to get to Rails’ top European event

Another nice post about registration opening:

This week they started taking registrations

Winner of a ticket to Ubuntu, blogger “psyopper” is pretty excited about which sessions to attend:

Woohoo! I just found out that I won a pass to the Ubuntu Live 2007 Conference!

Speaker Kirby Urner is already beginning to blog about his presentation at OSCON:

I’m feeling like quite the lucky lab, in terms of my geek quotient

Another TOC Speaker in the news, this time:

Mark Logic Principal Technologist and Director of Product Management to Speak at O’Reilly Tools of Change

This is a nice overview on the conference:

For publishers, these shifts are taking place so rapidly that it’s challenging to keep current–let alone create new, profitable opportunities.

Another blogger, this time TOC speaker Jeff Gomez:

I’ll be chairing a panel on Wednesday entitled “Back to the Future: Major Publishers Revisit Digital Publishing.

Eoin will be one of the media attending the event, here is what she had to say about TOC:

If I claimed I wanted to be anywhere other than here from the 18-20 June 2007.

Paula has some amusing things to say about making connections, here is what she said about using an
O’Reilly Conference as a place to do that:

One place would be the TOC Conference. Tools of Change Conference — all about publishing and how technology affects it and will affect it.

Okay, it’s a bit buried but if you scroll down you can see where author Erin McKean will be next week:

I plan to read it on the plane to the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference

Here is what David Heinemeier Hannson said recently on his blog “Loud Thinking:”

I’ve actually never been to Berlin before, so I’m excited to get the chance to not only see one of the great cities of Europe

Ron Hogan is excited to be going to TOC next week, here’s what he had to say:

Road Trip to San Jose Next Week!
I’ll be spending much of next week on the west coast, covering the O’Reilly TOC Conference on “tools of change for publishing.” The range of digital publishing issues they’ll be covering looks daunting, with presentations that take on big issues and technical details alike, but I’m really looking forward to immersing myself in the subject, and seeing what the publishing folks and the techies come up with in terms of moving the industry forward. “Publishers who are alarmed by competition from the internet need to remember that what they do isn’t putting ink on paper and books into bookstores,” Tim O’Reilly (right) writes in a pre-conference announcement:

“A reference publisher is in the business of helping people find the information they need when they need it. A fiction publisher is in the entertainment business. A textbook publisher is in the education business. And regardless of which job a publisher’s books do, there are core competencies that carry over well into the internet era.”

O’Reilly will also be giving a few presentations himself, including an interview with Google Book Search execs Daniel Clancy and Adam Smith. I’m looking forward to that, and a talk by Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson on the economics of abundance, and a presentation by Oxford American dictionary editor Erin McKean on making “information-delivery products and other book-shaped objects” that satisfy consumer needs, and… well, you’ll read all about it next week, really.

Here is some pre TOC news from sponsor and exhibitor Quova:

Quova Identifies Location of Web Visitors in Real Time

The conference was a big success, if you’d like to read the final news release click here:

Sebastopol, CA, June 1, 2007 - RailsConf 2007 was a resounding success with over 1,600 attendees, nearly triple the number of the previous year.

This is a lovely mention of the upcoming conference by two of our speakers:

Around our dinner table.

We had an editor from this Japanese publication cover the news from the conference. Here is the link (in Japanese!):

MyCom Journal

Media partner Phoronix News announces the following:

Ubuntu Live is taking place during this year’s OSCON

Blogger March had this to say about the value of exhibiting at ETech:

Why are these two men smiling? Because a partnership that increases the value

Good news if you’ve been meaning to sign up but haven’t had the chance: the early registration discount for Ubuntu Live has been extended to Monday, June 18. Visit the registration page to sign up and to find out about other discounts you can use during the early registration period to save even more. It’s (at least!) $150 well saved.

And if you haven’t looked at the program yet, you might want to mosey over and peruse the schedule–it’s loaded with lots of important info and interesting speakers, just the ticket for anyone in the Ubuntu trenches.

It’s nice to begin seeing some buzz about the Tools of Change Conference:

Collarity will be providing a demonstration

An article about the conference:

A strong spirit of community sharpened the razor-edge focus

An article about the conference:

A strong spirit of community sharpened the razor-edge focus

This is what Google Earth and Maps team said about the conference:

The Where 2.0 conference was a blast.

Peter Krasilovsky had the following to report on his visit to Where 2.0:

Maps are the height of the data pyramid

Google’s own Andrew Bowers had this to say about Where 2.0:

Finally, we released Google Mapplets yesterday at the Where 2.0 conference.

Blogger Corey spreads the good news about Ubuntu registration:

The wonderful people at O’Reilly and I have cooked up a little scheme

Glenn Latham reports on the “coolest” thing he saw at Where 2.0:

No doubt the coolest…

Just a few hours left to register for OSCON and take advantage of that early registration discount. Other discounts are available too, on top of what you already save with the early price.

OSCON is the annual open source gathering of choice for thousands of programmers, developers, hackers, and IT professionals. This year’s event features innovators and leaders across every open source technology, lots of extracurricular activities, a relevant Expo Hall, and the return of the O’Reilly Radar Executive Briefing.

And, if your open source passion includes Ubuntu, join us for Ubuntu Live, which overlaps with OSCon, July 22-24, also at the Oregon Convention Center. Registered OSCON attendees receive a nice discount to Ubuntu Live–look for the special discount code in your registration confirmation email.

This story ran on KPIX during the evening News:

Google has taken its online mapping service to the next level with a feature that displays snapshots of actual streets in certain cities.

Although it’s in French, here’s the link that US based reporter Francis Pisani filed from Where 2.0:

“Les informations concernant le monde deviennent visibles” estime Mike Liebhold, chercheur à The Institute For The Future et l’un des spécialistes du géoweb.

British based ITPro sent husband and wife team Mary Branscombe and Simon Bisson to Where 2.0. Here the story they filed:

This week we’re in San Jose for the Where 2.0 conference.