BarCamp KL 2009. It’s still one big kenduri!

BarCamp KL is just a few days away! Oh so close. After an exciting & hyped up first year, BarCamps are starting to mushroom in Malaysia. And it’s all for the good of knowledge. Most people would still ask,...

The growing influence of social news sites

Hat tip to JD for this one.  If anyone is around it should be worth attending.  Let us know what goes down."I can't make it, but this sounds interesting: The evolution and growing influence of social news sites will be the topic of a panel Thursday night at Yahoo!...

Hacking the iPhone: Hello, World

Absurdly young hackers: check.Cool nickname: check.Bypassing hardcore security measures in an electronic device: check.Patrick Walton, aka Nightwatch, and his team of hackers have created the first widely-useable...

The Worldwide Faces of BarCamp Part 2

Editor's Note: Walyce Almeida was NowPublic's first student journalist contributor and we're really proud to have her stories being shown here. She posted the following item about the upcoming BarCamp event at the...

Toronto Transit Camp - Grassroots Public Transit Improvement

If you're reading this, and you live in Tee Dot, you're late."Toronto Transit Camp is a limited-attendance one-day summit on the best way to reform Toronto's public transit system. It appears to have been organized independently of the Toronto Transit Authority, and will be...

BarCamp Brussels

"I left early this morning to catch my train to Brussels to join about 50 other people for the first official BarCamp edition.... After a short introduction by Peter Forret and Bart Van Herreweghe, Tanguy De...

ArtCamp is Here

 ArtCamp starts at 930 am on Thursday, September 21, 2006 with registration and coffee. There will be a board where people can come and put themselves down for a session. So far on the planning wiki we have...

Venue Set For BarCamp Shanghai - Sponsorships Welcomed

Welcome To The YouTube of China In a country in the Old World Hemisphere, on a continent far, far away, BarCamp Shanghai has an official venue and the organizers from this side of the world and the other are steaming ahead at all the pertinent BarCamp details. Tudou,...

BarCamp London Thoughts

"I don’t think I’ve ever been to a conference (or unconference) that was so good before. All the attendee’s really knew their stuff and hence all the presentations were top notch. I’m very thankful to Ben Metcalfe, Ian Forrester, Paul Hammond and the rest of the...

ArtCamp: the World's First un-Conference on Art

ArtCamp is the World's First un-Conference on Art. We are calling it an un-conference, but you can also think of it as a BarCamp about art, a gathering that uses Open Space Technology, an Open Source conference,...

Reverse Microformat-ing at BarCamp San Francisco

"I just landed in San Francisco and took the BART directly to BarCamp San Francisco. I grabbed some coffee, some beer, and some North Beach pizza from the common areas, and then landed straight in an intense...

BarCamp Amsterdam ROCKS

Imagine a bunch of geeks, whipped to a frenzy by a whole week of high energy tech talk AND nightlife in Amsterdam, locked in a media company with nothing but beer, WiFi, Indian food and the heat from their...

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