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Rhetoric students gain public speaking confidence by giving TED-style talks
Rhetoric students gain public speaking confidence by giving TED-style talks
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A fear of public speaking is a common one among us. Yet the "ability to verbally communicate with persons inside and outside the organization" is a top sought-after skill of college graduates by potential employers, according to the Job Outlook 2013 report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
Although students in ENGL 137H Rhetoric and Civic Life don't necessarily overcome all nervousness at giving a speech by the end of the course, they are able to gain practice by scripting and performing a four- to five-minute TED-style talk in front of their peers that is easily recorded using the One Button Studio within the Pattee Library Media Commons. Through this experience, they at least discover that they can get through giving a speech, and this can help them gain confidence.
Rhetoric and Civic Life is a yearlong course first offered in 2013, and is taken by approximately 500 Schreyer Honors College and Paterno Fellows students. Primarily developed by Debra Hawhee, professor of English and communication arts and sciences, the course was envisioned as a way to make assignments from two separate existing courses: ENGL 15 and CAS 100; build off of each other from fall to spring semester and eliminate repetitive material.
Jan Babcock, lecturer in English, who teaches a section of the course, described the "TED Talk" assignment and how her students used the studio: "I would say a lot of what we do the first couple weeks of the fall semester is repetitive as to what AP English students in high school probably did, for the purpose of getting all students on the same level of understanding with rhetorical analysis and academic writing. I think the TED Talk is where it really shifts to 'I've never done this before and I'm really scared!'"
"In essence, the TED Talks started out as what's called a paradigm shift paper, where they had to find a moment in time with a topic and figure out where it made a shift," explained Babcock. For example, a topic may be a U.S. foreign policy many people thought was a good idea at one point, but then several years later, public opinion shifted. "The TED Talk comes out of that topic," she said. "It builds off a previous assignment so that students are spending a couple weeks on the same topic and not just jumping into the TED Talk. They already have a starting point and have done some research."
When planning their talk, said Babcock, "some people will do a straight revision of their paper and some people will be really creative and do a fun look at it. One student did a paper about the cultural shift of masculinity in movies as his paradigm shift paper and then his TED Talk dealt with looking at James Bond." She noted that TED Talks have to be very visual, so that student was able to show the different images of the James Bond character on film and how it went through different transitions from a '60s man to the '70s and '80s.
"I have them write a draft of the speech, but they can't use it during the actual TED Talk," she said. "They have to get their thoughts in order, their outline formed," but during the actual speech, they are not permitted to hold any script or notes.
"I allow them to have off to the side one small note card so that if they get frozen, they can glance over," Babcock said. She recommends putting single words on the card, which remains off-camera, that are pulled from their outline to remind them where they are in their speech. "Every once in a while in a TED Talk, you'll see them glance over, which is fine, because obviously it's a learning experience," she said.
The assignment also requires that students include well-thought-out visuals that underscore points within the TED Talk, which the speaker advances with a remote-control clicker.
Although real TED Talks are given in front of a large audience, Babcock noted that the One Button Studio room will not fit a whole class at once, so she takes groups of six to eight students to the facility at one time. "We all sit there and watch the student who is presenting. All six of them will rotate that day. When you're not giving your speech, you're in the audience. I think it helps them sympathize with each other," she said.
To ease nervousness, while giving their talk, because the camera is suspended from the ceiling, "most people will look over the heads of the audience, because they don't want to look them right in the eye," Babcock said. But in the finished video, they are looking at the camera. She noted that she does not grade the talk based on what happened in the room during recording, but rather on the video itself.
Before the day of students' actual TED Talks, Babcock says she incorporates practice within the One Button Studio to help students be more comfortable and less nervous. "I give them a chance to come in and do a rough draft of their speech," she said, "because you know, you get nervous. Some people will spin the remote control, and I had one person drop it, and the batteries went flying in the middle of their speech. So I learned after last year to give them more practice time, especially holding the clicker."
Students can also make appointments to visit the studio on their own, which Babcock said a lot of them did. "They made the reservations outside of class with their friends and came in and did it that way," she said. "But I do one practice day with me in the room so I can show them how things work, so it's not just, 'Here, go in there and do your speech.'"
When a student is giving his or her actual talk, even if the person is nervous and slips up, Babcock discourages restarting. She said, "If they mess up, I try to tell them to regroup, because if you're really giving a speech, you couldn't say, 'Hey, can I start again?'" She encourages them to take a moment to regroup, catch their breath and glance at their note card or visual to get back on track.
One of the Rhetoric and Civic Life class requirements is that each student have a blog, where they can write reflections on assignments. Nearer the end of the yearlong course, said Babcock, "They have to do an e-portfolio and pick the best of what they did over the year and put it into one site. And most people will pick the TED Talk, because it's one of the true visuals."
One student commented in his blog about the TED Talk experience, "Walking into that one-button studio with the shades drawn, the bright lights shining on me, and the audience sitting just an arm's length away was one of the most intimidating experiences of my life. The experience, though one I would not like to have to go through again, was very beneficial. It made me get out of my comfort zone and try something I'd never done before." Comments of a similar vein showed up in other students' blog posts as well.
Some students also remarked in their blog posts that upon self-reflection on their finished video as opposed to how they felt during the actual recording of the speech, it turned out better than they remembered.
Babcock said of the intimidation factor, "I think that's pretty common. That's part of why I incorporated more practice time. Because just the aspect of the lights throws people off. The comfort zone thing is what I hear a lot about." She added, "I think there's your student who is on the debate team, who is comfortable speaking, but I would say out of a class of 24 that's probably four people who really are truly comfortable, and you don't hear the nerves in their voice, whereas most people are definitely out of their comfort zone." She said she also allows students to pick the classmates they want to speak in front of to make them feel more comfortable.
Being able to express your thoughts clearly out loud is a vital skill, according to Babcock. "There's no way to get around it anymore," she said. "I see seniors who are ready to leave, who say, 'I wish I could give a better speech.' I think that's being touched on in this class, which is being able to communicate your ideas effectively, but then also to control your emotions in giving a speech."
When asked whether the TED Talk assignment helped students overcome fear of public speaking, Babcock was realistic. "I think they learned they could get through a speech," she said. "I think if you hate making speeches, you probably still hate making speeches after this, but I think they learned how to organize a speech, and how to present it visually, and how to speak and use the visuals at the same time."
She said in summary, "I think it's a good learning process that they're going through with the TED Talk. Some people are just happy to get through it and be done, but there's no way you can get around giving a presentation at work and including multimedia."
When observing the students near the end of the course, Babcock said, "There's a lot of growth. At the end of the year, they're much more confident."
To learn more about the One Button Studio, a service of Information Technology Services, visit http://onebutton.psu.edu/.

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Up and Running 6a0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 12:39 pm
Page 2 of my iPhone and it's apps...
Again top to bottom, left to right.. All non standard apps on this page were free.
Clock:- I use the alarm feature quite regularly but that's about it, if I want to know the time a quick press of the home button while locked will tell me. No complaints tho.
Weather:- Another standard iPhone app, built from the Yahoo! widget, it's ok, but very very basic, I'm gonna look for a more detailed one, but then if I find one I won't be able to delete this one!!
Weather:- Another standard iPhone app, built from the Yahoo! widget, it's ok, but very very basic, I'm gonna look for a more detailed one, but then if I find one I won't be able to delete this one!!
MySpace:- I don't use MySpace a hell of a lot any more, but I still have an active profile, and I occasionally check it on the go and delete all the crappy spam adds that you get on MySpace, functionally, the app's not as good as Facebook (much like the site itself!) (iTunes)(Profile)
Digg:- Bookmark to the mobile version of Digg, which isn't the easiest to use, and thus doesn't get much use from me. (Link)
TubeStatus:- As I do a fair bit of work and commuting to/from and in London, this would seem like quite a handy app, which I suppose it would be if I actually checked it regularly before my journey, but at the same time, the Tube isn't that hard to navigate and if there's a major problem (becuase "minor or even major delays" generally don't matter if you're just getting the next train), you can easily figure out how to go around, and if you're checking the app now, it's already too late. If it was integrated into a map, that may be more useful. (iTunes)
Linkedin:- Another social network site, this one supposed to be more business orientated, so I've got a profile, have some connections and that's about it at the moment, but the mobile app comes in handy if I want to check on it.(iTunes)(Profile)
Photos:- The standard iPhone photo gallery app, once again, I've got no issues with this, I don't want to be doing any photo manipulation or editing on the go, it simply stores my phone cam photos and syncs with iPhoto. Cheers.
UK Trains:- WebApp interface for the National Rail Timetable search, the interface isn't great, but it delivers the same results, and for a free webapp it's ok, does the job. (Link)
ShoZu:- This seemed like a bloody good app, I could post pictures to my various accounts from a single app, could blog on the go, all looked good. First time I tried posting a pic to TwitPic, it failed, nothing posted. I think I've had one test blog post from it and that's about it. There has been an update and I haven't tried it since, so maybe I should give it another go. (iTunes)
IM+ Lite:- I keep this on as a just in case, it should handle multiple IM accounts and protocols, I very rarely use it. Don't know if the paid version's any better. (iTunes)
Remote:- AWESOME!!! Brilliant app from Apple to control iTunes. Unfortunately I rarely have cause to use it as I'm generally sat with or next to the computer that's playing the music, however when I eventually DO get a media centre set up, this WILL be used! (iTunes)
eBay:- The interface isn't great, but I have been using it recently to keep an eye on my watch list, and even placed a bid with it, so on that score I guess it does it's job. (iTunes)
AroundMe:- I really like this app in principal, I wish I could get more use out of it. It should link to the location services and tell you what's nearby in any given category, for instance Restaurants. Which it seems to, as long as their in whatever database it looks up (Google??), I've used it to find somewhere to eat, as well as confirm that there were no better options from what we'd already found. (iTunes)
AIM:- I get more use out of this than IM+ Lite, mainly as my girlfriend has a MacBook now I set up an iChat/AIM account for her and now if I'm out and about this can save on SMS Texts, as long as there's a decent connection. Hopefully it'll get the whole push server thing going on and then will run in the background, that would be handy. (iTunes)
MMS:- Okay, was told about this one recently whilst filming at Olympia. We had a chat with one of the guys on the O2 stand there at BETT, and he pointed us in the direction of this app. It's a simple app that gives you an interface to the O2 MMS web portal, so if you receive an MMS message you can use this app to read it rather than faffing about through Safari. This is definitly a much better way to do it. My only concern is with sending. Now, unlike the majority of the whinging iPhone community, I'm not that fussed about having MMS capabilities, true this app makes it easier for me to pick up any that are sent, but I could do that on the web anyway. If I want to send a picture I'll generally email it. However there's still a lot of people who haven't got decent mobile email and so are still using MMS, like my girlfriend for example who has a Nokia 5000, because that suits her mobile phone needs, and has MMS. So I can view MMS messages from her, and with the MMS app I can also, if I REALLY needed to send them. However you need to top-up MMS credit from within the app via PayPal, the rates seem about average, but are they on-top of my mobile tariff, is it a seperate thing? I haven't been able to clarify, thus I haven't given any money over. (iTunes)
Darkslide:- I added this yesterday, because I was specifically looking for a picture of something. Sat in the car, bought it (free) over 3G, used it to search Flickr. Couldn't find what I wanted, but that's not the app's fault. It seems pretty good, lot of functionality, I'm gonna keep it about for a bit. (iTunes)(Profile)
Starting to notice I have a lot of apps that get bugger all use.
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Starting to notice I have a lot of apps that get bugger all use.
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Up and Running 61 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 10:33 am
I've now been using my iPhone 3G for about 6 months, so here I'm going to cover the 'page 1' apps on my iPhone. Top to bottom, left to right. (pages 2-4 will follow)
Calendar:- Pretty straight forward this one, I use iCal on my MacBook as my main calendar, so it's synched to that. Unlike on my previous Nokia phones, I can add an item to any calendar category I like, rather than having to specify just one iSync or something. Only bugbears with it are that there's no week view and the calendar colours don't match the one's in iCal, the latter at least seems like a no brainer!!
Maps:- Maps gets knocked by a fair few people, mainly for it's lack of "turn-by-turn" SatNav abilities, all I can say is that so far, it's got me everywhere I've needed to go. True every now and again there's a post code error and it takes me to the wrong street, but this isn't the application's fault as such, more the data it's using from Google Maps, or maybe even address having the wrong post code on it.
Back to the "turn-by-turn" side of things, yes, this is is a tad fiddly in Maps, you have to tap through each waypoint and then re-engage GPS tracking each time, not the best thing to have to do while driving. Rumors still fly about the Tom-Tom software for iPhone and a guy from O2 told me there was another SatNav app coming out soon (same one as they have on XDA perhaps), but I've yet to see it, plus it'll be a subscription based model, not sure about that.
Contacts:- I don't have to delve into this that often, apart from via the phone book. It was dreadfully slow to begin with, updates have pretty much sorted that.
Camera:- For a bog standard phone camera, it's not terrible, yeah sure there's better phone cameras out there, but this is comparable to and better than some previous Nokias and Motorola's I've had. Does ok.
Twinkle:- I'm a Twitter addict. So until it goes bankrupt (revenue model yet anyone?) I'll keep going. There's a variety of Twitter apps out there, I've been happiest with the interface on this one, plus it's location aware. (iTunes)
Calculator:- It's a calculator...
Notes:- It does exactly the job I need it to do. If I need to make a note of something, this is where it goes.
NetNewsWire:- I got into the whole RSS thing a few months back, and I have both the mobile and desktop version of NNW, both pretty good, for collating the various sites I read. Still think the mobile one has syncing issues tho. (iTunes)
Facebook:- A pretty good interface for the site, they do keep improving it, there's more needed, but I'm sure they'll get there. I do get quite a bit of use from this. (iTunes)
Safari:- All in all, it does a pretty good job, can be a little fiddly with some sites if there's crowded text, you can easily tap a link when you wanted to zoom in, or tap an adjacent link to the one you want. Can be a tad slow at times and obviously doesn't cope well with pop-ups etc.
Evernote:- Thinking this may go soon. It's an interesting concept when combined with the broswer applet, you can clip to Evernote then it's accessible from pretty much anywhere. Thing is cell data isn't great and I rarely use it. Favouring emails, Notes and PDFs it seems. I want to like it tho. (iTunes)
Settings:- Cos there's no quick switch icon for Wi-Fi on/off
Air Sharing:- Brilliant, gives you wi-fi disk access to your phone, create folders, drag over docs, whatever really. I've got a store of useful docs on my phone and use this a fair bit. Be handy to have some integration to mail or something, to allow you to save docs to it tho. But that's probably more a restriction by Apple. Luckily I also got this when it was free, but well worth the £2.99 now! (iTunes)
Traffic:- WebApp, quick view list of traffic problems around the UK, listed by region, very useful (if I remember to check before I set off!), would be handy if it listed by Motorway, cos half the time I'm going somewhere of any distance, I lose track of which county I'm in!! (WebApp)
FireFone:- Recently discovered Fire Eagle, added it to my Twitter-style addictions and online explotation. Tried a couple of Fire Eagle apps out, this seemed to do the job the quickest. Apparently the recent update allows Location to Twitter posting, haven't tried that yet tho. (iTunes)
Quick bar.
Phone:- No complaints so far, sometimes the Visual Voicemail is a bit sketchy whether it will actually be visual or not, but that hasn't been a major issue so far.
Mail:- Again, this has been working okay, nothing has stopped me from working or anything like that, would like to be able to save documents tho, that did cause a minor delay in things the other day as I couldn't get the doc off the phone (no wifi to pickup email on my MacBook), but overall it's done well. My email accounts are all over the place, but I will be upgrading my server to Exchange which will hopefully solve all that (but not until Snow Leopard!)
SMS:- I'm pretty sure I text a hell of a lot more with this, the conversation format works well, only issues are me being too quick and accepting some of it's stupid spelling and word suggestions by mistake.
Checklist:- I tried various ToDo list apps, this one enabled me to add tasks the quickest, so it stuck. (iTunes)
Okay, so there's page 1, I'll cover pages 2, 3 and 4 when I can/feel like it/am bored/etc. Always interested to hear about useful and interesting apps, especially paid apps that are actually worth the money!
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BETT 20090 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 11:49 pm
Today was the first day of BETT 2009 @ Olympia, and as I've done for the past couple of years, I was part of the team covering it for Teachers TV. It's been a long day and I have a blister on the ball of my left foot.
If you're hoping for an insightful post on the current state of technology in the education marketplace, this is not going to be the one. This is about what freebies we snagged on the way round, mainly as despite being rather tired, I'm not quite ready to go to bed yet, so you get this!
The haul is not as good as previous years :( no bags, no mugs, no drinks bottles. I'm pretty sure we could've found all three of those (bags at the very least), but for some reason, the freebies were hard to find, the stands were more reluctant to give them away and we seemed to have a much tighter schedule (or at least it became tighter!) this time round, which meant less time to browse on our way between I/V locations!
But what did I come back with.
A Pencil with TWO rubbers on it!
A Rubiks...sorry...Logo-Branded-Generic-Puzzle Cube (which one bit pinged off while I was smugly boasting about it to the presenter)
A rather snazzy flower shaped highlighter (may give that to my g/f, on the other hand, may not)
A few sweets, including a sherbert lolly!!
A Stress LightBulb
A Stress Phone
2 'credit-card' sized packs of mints
3 USB Memory Sticks! (not sure on the sizes yet, won't be huge, although my sound guy got given a 2GB one and he didn't even ask!!!!!)
Also got recommended a couple of iPhone apps by the guys on the O2 stand, I'll cover at least some of them in a post tomorrow (yeah right, believe that when I see it!!... I Will honest!)
Anyway, it was a great show and we saw (and filmed) some interesting stuff, should be a good programme!! BETT Report 2009 goes out on Teachers TV 20:15 Thursday 15th (Today now!!) and should be available online shortly after at http://www.teachers.tv/video/30904
YO YO YO'90 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 1:20 am
Well it had to happen I suppose... as it does every year, one finished and another arrived, this time, something a little different, Two Thousand and NINE, yes NINE of all numbers!!
OK it's late, 20 past 1 in the AM Jan 2nd 09 and after pretty much 3 months, I NOW decide I want to post some random shite up here. Deal.
So, was pretty damn busy at the end of last year, mix of stuff and, by the time it came around, I was really glad for a bit of a break over xmas! :/
How did '08 go?? Not bad, first 8 months of being freelance done and dusted, all going ok so far, sure there's a way to go, but for a start, I'm pretty pleased. 4 months left of my first year, and then a proper assessment I think.
Been trying to work out my 1 year and 5 year plans, not going great, still needs a lot of work, and preferably some sort of writing down, once I do figure out what they're going to be. Still interested in creating some sort of online content, still toying with various ideas, still not moving forward with anything... that'll be on the plan.
Spent too much money over xmas... mainly on myself, post xmas. I'm not a bastard, I bought good presents, just buckled afterwards and bought myself one..
What you see there is my spanking new Nikon D80 sat next to what can now probably be described as my vintage Nikkormat EL, which used to be my Dad's. The Lens on the D80 is an 18-55 'G' lens, which isn't great, but it's a start. I want to get a decent zoom for it as the Nikkor 80-200 I picked up recently for the EL is of too old a type to mount on the D80. Damn.
Apparently I can get the lens modified to fit, which I may need to do anyway, as I bought it not only for the EL but also for use with lens adapters on video and I think there's a similar mounting issue there.
Anyway, Happy New Year.
Mood is quizzical and ever so slightly apprehensive
Currently (still) listening to White Star Liners - Dimmer Then Explode
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Welcome, to a medieval RP, the year is 1492, Columbus has just sailed for the New World, Henry VII has just won his throne, and your character is about to set out on perhaps a quest, fall in love, or has just married a cruel and vicious Count. (Actually it's my character who wants to do all of the above.) I got the idea from a song I heard.
So here are the details:
1492 Medieval England
An Evil Count (I'm still deciding on his name)
Rosamund (my character see below in example of form for a character for details)
The count's castle:
Characters in RP:
An Evil Count (Still deciding on name unless some one wants to play him)
Character ideas (those found typically in a medival castle):
Guards (i.e. knights/squires/bowmen/etc.)
Minstrels (wandering music men/women)
Men/Women of the cloth (monks/nuns/abbots/abbesses/etc...)
Count's Brothers/Sisters or Rosamund's brothers/sisters
Character Form:
Name of Character: Rosamund
Username(s): Martin the Warrior
Brief Description: Fair complexion, pale blue eyes, and dark chestnut brown hair.
Brief history: Stuck in an arranged marriage from the age of 14/15 (she's now 17. Her husband the Count is a horrible man, and she has the bruises to prove it. She may fall in love to some one else, if anyone was decent enough came along.
Age: As stated before she's 17
(If anything is not canonically sound that I've put please let me know)
As with all RPs your character may not:
Have Sex (If you and another character want to do this take it to the private messages.) You may say that they went together into a bedroom-but no further.
No swearing (you can say things like bloody idiot, but not things like the F-word)
No first person example: I walked into the room everyone stared at me and I thought to myself, "Did I forget to put my pants back on?"
-You get the idea, however if let's say your character is having a dream, you may use the first person.
No killing off a characters that aren't you're own, please ask nicely first.
If for some reason you cannot post for an extended amount of time, please let everyone know, don't assume.
If you have to leave the RP either kill off your own character or have them go away from the story. If leave your character to others to look after some thing bad might happen to them (as with all characters left to their own devices.)
You may have more than one character, but no more than three, if you wish to create more than that please ask. This does not have anything to do with side characters that you may interact with, if one of these characters though becomes a main character, please let us know.
I think that's all the rules I can think of needing to mention other than remember everything has to fit into the rules of the board.
So, hopefully we can get started with the story soon.


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A functional computer does not need much to operate. Most users get by fine with a single hard drive, single optical drive, single CPU, single Ethernet interface, and often do not end up using their PCI slots thanks to the integration of just about everything onto modern motherboards.
A high-performance system often is not much more than what is listed above. Instead of onboard video, there's a single PCI-Express slot for a Geforce 7800GTX, and instead of a smaller 80GB or 120GB 7200rpm hard drive, a Western Digital Raptor fits in the exact same space as any other typical 3.5" hard drive. A single 5.25" expansion bay makes a standard-sized optical drive possible, from a simple CD-ROM to a DVD-/+RW for a high-end machine. A machine with the same capabilities as a full-sized desktop can now be repackaged in a small box, without the difficulties of sourcing special "small" and "low-profile" components that people had to do in the past.
Small Form Factor (SFF) represents a newer footprint for computers, one that allows them to be small enough to disappear from the desk, or the exact opposite: often considered attractive enough in their brushed-aluminum and anodized-black finishes with bright blue LEDs to be a showpiece of status.
One theme that kept coming to the forefront in our discussions of the hows and whys of SFF systems was that of sexiness. With their brushed aluminum, sleek black, or pearl white exteriors, SFF boxes have a certain visual appeal that other cases lack. So for some, the choice of an SFF system can be just as much about aesthetics as it is performance. With the multitude of SFF choices available, there is seldom any need to sacrifice performance for a looks.
Defining the SFF
A typical small form factor PC is not quite a cube. A shoebox is a better approximation of its size, or maybe even a toaster oven. They can take the processor of your choice, have onboard video, sound, USB, Firewire, Ethernet, and often a pair of PCI-Express slots for a little bit of expansion. A single 5.25" bay and one or two 3.5" bays usually rounds things out. It is enough for a complete, full-featured system with very limited expansion.
The most popular SFF boxes today from Shuttle, Soltek, Aopen, and Biostar are all of similar size, having roughly square dimensions in height and width and being somewhat longer. This fits a small power supply of 200 to 350 watts and gives enough room for a 80mm or 92mm fan in back for system and CPU cooling. A back panel full of VGA, USB, ethernet, sound, and firewire connectors provide a complete set of expansion opportunities. The front panels usually have USB, Firewire, and audio ports for additional expansion. Custom or semi-custom CPU heatsink/fan combinations are provided by most makers, with the most notable being Shuttle's heat-pipe with an 80mm exhaust fan. Two expansion slotsusually one AGP and one PCI or (as is becoming more prevalent) one PCI-e x16 and one PCI-e x1make it into most SFF systems. Vented side panels help keep high-end video cards cool, and the expansion slots usually have room for full-height cards so that the latest high-end video cards will fit.
SFF boxes outside of these dimensions are fairly common as well, but these are the typical dimensions that most people associate with SFF. Larger and smaller chassis, particularly super-slim ones and closer-to-cube-shaped ones are other common SFF shapes and sizes. Aspire's X-Qpack and Antec's Aria are well known examples of somewhat larger chassis that fit conventional microATX motherboards.
The other extreme is the extremely tiny system, a la Apple Mac Mini. This goes into the realm of custom motherboards and chassis, based on laptop parts. The do-it-yourself SFF market does not go to this extreme, particularly due to the fabrication requirements and higher costs of using laptop parts compared to desktop parts.
One exposed 5.25" bay for optical drives sits at the front of a typical SFF box, with a handful of 3.5" bays below it. One exposed 3.5" bay for a flash card reader or floppy drive (!) and another hidden 3.5" bay for a hard drive is pretty typical. Vented front panels provide for some cooling, although with all of the drive bays stacked tight atop each other, typical SFF systems are not welcome places for those with hot-running multiple-hard drive setups. Some makers offer smaller and larger SFF chassis, such as Shuttle's P-series chassis. They're still small, but their being just a little bit larger or smaller than the typical SFF chassis often provides people with the exact size or expansion they need.
Due to their small size, SFF systems usually are not particularly quiet or cool as they are tightly packed. The number of components commonly found inside of a mid-tower chassis being crammed into a chassis less than one-third the size results in a compact system with a very large number of heat-producing components in extremely close proximity. With the exception of SFF systems designed to be quiet, such as the Shuttle ST62K Zen, most can become quite audible at full load. For most less-than-full load situations, careful tweaking of temperature-controlled fan settings often does the trick. A typical SFF box should be quiet enough for most users, provided they are not expecting complete silence.
Finally, SFF systems usually ship as barebones units (chassis, motherboard, power supply), due to their proprietary rear backplane layout. Packing everything inside such a small space has lead to extensive manufacturer customization of the motherboard and chassis. To compensate for this, most SFF makers have extensive SFF system lineups, covering chipsets from Intel, nVidia, ATI, SiS, and VIA, so you can pick and choose the SFF with the chipset and features that fits your needs.
Typical places for a SFF system
- Budget desktop replacement: smaller and more attractive than a typical ATX or micro-ATX system, a small SFF box fits in some places that a regular ATX box would not. The limited expansion is not an issue because most people don't need any additional expandability to start with. Along with the Budget desktop replacement is the flexibility to put a compact PC anywhere you need one. Some people use them a as a base for a "kitchen" box, providing access to recipes and other goodies right in the kitchen without sacrificing too much counter space.
- Point-of-sale booths, display cases, etc: small, confined space where nothing else fits. Often the only alternative is a laptop, which may not fit the allocated space and may cost more than a SFF. Alternatively, SFF enables may places to have a computer where they had none before without going to expensive custom industrial PC setups.
- Portable Hot Rod: portability from the smaller size versus a regular ATX chassis makes a SFF Hot Rod attractive. SFF machines are lighter and more easily transported than full-sized systems, a huge advantage for gamers that move their systems frequently. The limited expansion still permits a full-height PCI-e card for high-end video, which means the SFF Hot Rod does not sacrifice any performance versus its standard-sized ATX brethren.
- Home Theater PC (HTPC): small, attractive, and comes in lots of different color schemes to match your living room. The limited expansion room puts a crimp on those who would like to use their HTPC as a TiVo, but it's certainly still possible. The two expansion slots can be filled with an AGP video/TV tuner card and the PCI slot with a high-end audio card, while USB wireless adapters make neat, clean networking installation possible.
Large clusters of SFF machines have been used to build supercomputers and other fairly exotic items. Others end up as servers. Indeed, there are many uses for SFF systems, where their small size substantially increases the versatility of where computers may go.
Small Form Factor and the System Guide
We cover two possible variations of the System Guide in a Small Form Factor format: the Budget Box and the Hot Rod.
With the ability to do a fully functional system inside a very small space, a SFF Budget Box makes a great deal of sense for those who need a computer that will fit into small spaces and be hidden away. People in small apartments, university dorms, and others who have space at a premium would probably appreciate such a system, although they're hardly the only ones.
The SFF Hot Rod is more for geek pride than it is for any real space advantage. Those who frequently move their computer may benefit more, but let us face it: a SFF Hot Rod is primarily a damned cool idea rather than an idea with roots in necessity.


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During the day, they're just regular people like you. But at night, a group in Dallas has been wearing disguises and operating outside the law to try to lure kids ... to the good side.
In their spare time, a group of police officers started wearing elaborate superhero costumes to try to instill moral values in kids. Many of them spent thousands out of their own pockets for the equipment.
Now they're making a break for Houston.
The group is called Heroes, Cops and Kids and since 2011 they've toured schools, hospitals, and anywhere else they're needed, dressed in full superhero outifts.
And they have a message to preach: Honor, Education, Respect and the power of One. Or H.E.R.O., as they put it.
"We do put bad guys in jail," Officer Rick Campbell, aka Batman, said of his daytime job. "A lot of the time they are kids, kids going into shopping centers shooting over Air Jordan sneakers. You have to instill some sort of value system, nobody seems to be doing that."
That frustration inspired him and nine others to start their new double life, filling a spiritual and moral gap that they claim cannot be done in their daytime uniforms.
"It's hard to legislate morality," said Campbell.
It's the pet project of him and his friend, Officer Ray McCampbell, aka the Green Lantern. McCampbell already had a taste of fame in the '80s when he had a No. 1 hit on the R&B chart with Roses are Red, written by 10 time Grammy award winner Babyface.
"I grew up in a rough area and when I became a police officer, I wanted to help in the best way I could," McCampbell said. "A lot of the time contact with the police is negative. Everybody loves a superhero."
The group has the backing of the Dallas Police Department, but technically operates outside the law, just like their namesakes.
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Posted: Fri 08 Jul 2005, 03:41
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Thanks Barry
I just looked at the clock. I've been "screwing around" with Puppy for *SIX HOURS* now (on and off)! I messed it up a bunch of times but that's OK since it's just one data file on the HDD and who cares what you do to a RAMdrive?
Go back to Winblows, delete the pup1 file and "it never happened".
Barry Old Buddy, this Pup is the greatest for learning Linux! I make a zillion mistakes but no damage done to my main system.
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Posted: Fri 08 Jul 2005, 05:38
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Well said.
It sometimes takes me 6 hours to set up a Linux system (this happened with Kanotix)
You can delete the Pup001 from within Puppy (use utilities/mount unmount) and then turn off the machine (do not logout as this will save a new pup001)
then you turn on the machine - it boots up asks a few questions and it should be up to a new Puppy in a few minutes . . .
In fact I rename the pup001 to pupJuly8 (it is then a backup)
So I agree - Puppy is the best thing sinced sliced lava bread
We are now using the Bash commands (to become the default in 1.04) - so that makes a more compliant to general learning standards
In August our Puplet makers Papasmurf and Pizzasgood will probably be busy tweaking on 1.0.4. John Murga and Bladehunter are busy with ISO Puplets.
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Thanks Lobster, I'm putting this in the Beginner's index, under "Booting (running) from CD.
If you rename a pup001 file to save it as a backup, how do you then restore it, just boot Puppy, find it and rename it back to pup001? Or is it more complicated than that?
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Flash wrote:
Thanks Lobster, I'm putting this in the Beginner's index, under "Booting (running) from CD.
If you rename a pup001 file to save it as a backup, how do you then restore it, just boot Puppy, find it and rename it back to pup001? Or is it more complicated than that?
That is right - you just rename it.
However . . .
in Puppy 1.0.4 (coming soon) you will have a choice of names and wether pup001 will be the default, I do not know . . .
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Posted: Fri 08 Jul 2005, 21:01
Post subject: Continuing Lobster's renaming idea
Now that Puppy is NTFS-broken he can be even more powerful. Here's what I did. I Still had that FAT32 partition on my system so I let Pup create a new 1-Gig clean pup1 file. The pup loader crapped out right after formatting the file because the usr_cram wasn't on the same partition as the pup1 file (Bug, Barry or "undocumented feature"?). But that's good! The file was formatted but virgin. Nothing had been written to it yet. Back in Winblows I zipped it to "Virgin 1Gig Pup" and saved it on my C: (about 140 Meg file) and removed the FAT32 partition (YAY Partition Magic!). Then I unzipped the virgin zip and booted up my puppy. All's well. I have my working pup1 and a clean virgin pup1.zip. When I want to try something "dangerous" I'll rename that pup1 to My-pup1 and unzip the virgin again. When my buddy Dan comes over and wants to play around I'll make a "Dan's-pup1". If the guy next door wants to play with Linux I'll have a "Norm's-pup1" and so on. Each user in the house can have his own personal Puppy enviroment. Maybe some Winblows batch files can be created to do the renaming or multiple grub entries.....yeah! I'm off to try that! C U later.
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Posted: Fri 08 Jul 2005, 21:28
Post subject: Nope
Nope. This didn't work:
title Dan's Puppy
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram PFILE=pup001
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/image.gz
title Norm's Puppy
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram PFILE=pup002
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/image.gz
title Amber's Puppy
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram PFILE=pup003
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/image.gz
but I'm sure the renaming method would work.
Oh well.
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Posted: Mon 11 Jul 2005, 01:53
Post subject: Just wanted to add a comment about Puppy
Also, Puppy is a good Linux for people who just want to screw around a little but don't want to bother with a full-blown O.S. if you just want to see what Linux is and not rebuild your entire computer system a Poor-man's install with Wingrub is way plenty to get you started with a Linux. Puppy is all the Linux a noobee like me needs and way more. I can play around and mess things up and learn with him. He's fast and plenty powerful enough for me and I don't WANT to eat up 5 or 10 gigs with a full-blown Linux system. Plus he fits in my pocket so I can go over to my friends' houses and say "Wanna see something cool?" Also I can cruise the net at others' houses and not leave any stuff on their computers.
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Post subject: How Easy Can It Get?
First off Thanks Barry. This is one sweet little Puppy.
I down loaded this OS to my Windblows desk top, and
burned an ISO image to a CD/RW disc using Nero Burning.
Rebooted and changed BIOS to boot from CDROM.
BOWWOW! booted right up.
It's fast and it's fun! This is nice little OS and it was so easy.
Again, thanks.
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Hi Harvey - have placed your comments here
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Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2005, 02:32
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My CPU (AMD 3000+) runs WAY cooler under Puppy. I tried a little test. Doing just websurfing the side of my case where the CPU air comes out gets too hot to touch under Winblows. The CPU temp display on the case reads 70c. The CPU will blow at 90! With Puppy the case is just mildly warm. Don't know the temp. No Linux display software for my system (Mega-180) but I'd guess no more than 45.
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Posted: Thu 15 Sep 2005, 08:01
Post subject: Great Job
Puppy boots within 15 seconds, does all i want, works stable and shuts down in 6 seconds.
It now lives on a 5.6 GB partition, formely inhabited by a one of the big ones which never really worked...
I tried lots of distributions (as every new linux fan like me does, i guess). I decided to stay with Puppy for a while and learn.
Thank you, Barry. Great Job.
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Nearly a quarter of all U.S. schoolchildren are Latino. In California, where I live, that number is even higher with Latinos now making up the majority in the state's public schools.
You'd think that library bookshelves would be chockfull of books featuring main characters from Latin America and books set in Mexico and El Salvador, Chile and Peru.
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Despite the dramatic demographic shifts, children's books continue to feature caucasian characters as they have across time.
"A report by the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that only 3 percent of children's books are by or about Latinos," according to National Public Radio.
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Of the 3,600 children's books published in the US in 2012, the Book Center found that only 3.3% were about African-Americans, 2.1% about Asian-Pacific Americans, and .6% about American Indians. These figures are shocking when you consider that almost half of today's children under 5 years old are non-white.
You might assume publishers aren't producing books geared to non-whites because these titles aren't in high demand. Actually, schools and libraries are hungry for these types of books. "There is an enormous amount of demand for this kind of content from libraries," says Andrew Karre, an editor with Lerner Books, told NPR. But the high demand doesn't mean that these books are selling wildly with everyday consumers and making best-seller lists.
We can only hope that this will change and book publishers will eventually catch up with the demographics because children from different backgrounds could benefit from learning about their culture and relating to role models who look like them through books. This is what will help keep these kids reading.
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Dennis Crowley is the Co-founder and CEO of foursquare. Previously, Dennis founded Dodgeball, one of the first mobile social services in the U.S., which was acquired by Google in 2005. He has been named one of the "Top 35 Innovators Under 35" by MIT's Technology Review magazine (2005) and has won the "Fast Money" bonus round in the TV game show Family Feud (2009). His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Time Magazine and Newsweek. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).
Dennis holds a master's degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and a bachelor's degree from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.
Anil Dash is an entrepreneur, technologist and writer acknolwedged as a "blogging pioneer" by the New Yorker for having started his site Dashes.com in 1999 as one of the earliest and most influential blogs on the Internet. Today his work focuses on applying the pioneering techniques and technologies of the startup world in order to transform major institutions in government, media and culture. To achieve these goals, Dash founding Expert Labs in 2009 to enable citizens to connect with government policy makers through social networks, and co-founded Activate in 2009 to help the world's major media and technology companies reinvent their business strategies. In addition, Dash is an active advisor to many of the most prominent technology startups and non-profit organizations.
Dash is a member of the board of the popular question-and-answer site Stack Exchange and sits on the board of the New York Tech Meetup which serves as the hub for the New York technology community. Dash is also an advisor to the Web 2.0 conference in New York City, to the reading startup Readability, to the popular upstart hip hop label Greedhead Records and to the noted education non-profit DonorsChoose.
Dash has also been recognized for his role in popularizing web culture and advocating for social and civic responsibility within the technology industry. In addition to his frequent public speaking engagements, his digital works have been showcased in museums including the New Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2010, Dashes.com was named a Webby honoree in the Personal Blog category and Dash was named second most media-connected person in technology by Forbes, and in 2008 Dash was named one of the top ten most influential people in New York City by NowPublic.
Dash's earlier career involved a seminal role as Chief Evangelist at Six Apart Ltd. (now SAY Media), where he joined as the first employee at the world's leading blogging company, and that work was proceeded by roles in the newspaper and music industries.
Dash lives in New York City with his wife Alaina Browne, general manager of Serious Eats, the James Beard Award winner for Best Food Blog; They have a new son Malcolm. Dash can be found online at dashes.com and on nearly every social network as "anildash".
Esther Dyson is an active angel investor in a variety of start-ups, for-profit and otherwise, around the world. She also operates as the Internet's court jester, a person of no institutional importance who somehow manages to speak the truth and to be heard when and where it matters. She does business as EDventure, the reclaimed name of the company she owned for 20-odd years before selling it to CNET Networks in 2004.
Her primary activity is investing in start-ups and guiding many of them as a board member. Her board seats include 23andMe, Airship Ventures, Boxbe, Voxiva, Eventful, Evernote, IBS Group (Russia, advisory board), Meetup, Midentity (UK), NewspaperDirect, Yandex (Russia)…and WPP Group (not a start-up). Some of her other direct IT investments include Flickr and Del.icio.us (sold to Yahoo!), BrightMail (sold to Symantec), Orbitz (sold to Cendant), Medstory and Powerset (both sold to Microsoft), Plazes (sold to Nokia), Tacit (sold to Oracle), BlogAds, BrightHouse, ChoiceStream, Dopplr, Dotomi, Linkstorm, Mashery, Organized Wisdom, Ovusoft, PatientsLikeMe, Resilient,Technorati, ThingD, Vizu.com and Zedo. Indirectly, she is an investor in Amee.cc and Wesabe.
As a two-time weightless flyer, she is also active in the commercial space/airline start-up world, with investments in Icon Aircraft, Space Adventures/Zero-G, XCOR Aerospace and Zero-G.
She also blogs occasionally for the Huffington Post, as Release 0.9. She posts photos with captions at Flickr.
On the non-profit side, Dyson sits on the boards of the Eurasia Foundation, the "Long Now Foundation";http://www.longnow.org/, the Santa Fe Institute and the Sunlight Foundation.
Building on a passion for both computer science, sociology and art, Julia received her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with Honors. She went on to compete her Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2007, focusing on communication and collaboration in online communities.
She joined IBM Research – Almaden in 2006, specializing in creating visualizations for large datasets of unstructured information. She went on to design and built innovative user interfaces and applications for a wide range of domains including healthcare, finance and government. In 2008 Julia joined the USER (User Sciences and Experience Research) group at Almaden, focusing on social and collaborative software. Her current work is focused on how to visualize and make sense of the massive amounts of data from social networking sources. She is excited by the prospect of cleanly and concisely presenting social information as to help people all over the world more effectively.
She has been featured in two internationally aired IBM television commercials about her work, speaks regularly at universities about her passion for collaboration, and has come to love giving Ingite talks. In her spare time she runs, backpacks through the state parks of California, and practices yoga. She is a certified wine dilettante.
John Gruber writes and publishes Daring Fireball, a somewhat popular weblog ostensibly focused on Mac and web nerdery. He has been producing Daring Fireball as a full-time endeavor since April 2006.
He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and son.
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Leila Janah is the founder of Samasource, a social business that connects over 550 women, youth, and refugees living in poverty to microwork — small, computer-based tasks that build skills and generate life-changing income. Samasource was a winner in the Stanford Social Enterprise Challenge in 2008 and is a current grantee of the Rockefeller Foundation. In recognition of her work, Leila received the Rainer Arnhold Fellowship and has been invited to serve as a TED and Social Enterprise Institute Fellow. Janah is a frequent speaker on social entrepreneurship, technology, and international development at institutions including MIT, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and Harvard. Her work has been profiled by CBS, CNN, The New York Times, The New Scientist, and GOOD, and she is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and Social Edge.
Prior to Samasource, Janah was a founding Director of Incentives for Global Health, an organization formed by Professors Thomas Pogge and Aidan Hollis and advised by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen to develop new financing mechanisms for pharmaceutical R&D on diseases of the poor. She has served as a Visiting Scholar with the Stanford Program on Global Justice and a Visiting Researcher at Australian National University's Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.
Leila received her BA from Harvard University in 2005, where she led the Harvard International Development Group and published work on the Rwandan genocide. Earlier in her career, Janah worked for Katzenbach Partners, a management consulting firm based in New York, the World Bank's Development Research Group, and as a travel writer for Let's Go guidebooks in Mozambique, Brazil, and Borneo. She resides in San Francisco.
Charlie Kim serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Next Jump, Inc. Mr. Kim founded Next Jump in 1994. He worked in the Information Technology and Human Resources groups of Morgan Stanley in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo from 1995 to 1997. He returned to Boston in April 1997 to grow the business full-time. To grow Next Jump from a one-person operation to a multi-layered corporation, he raised millions in independent investments from Wall Street's most influential players. He graduated with Honors from Tufts University in 1995, where he earned a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Quantitative Economics.
Kati London is Vice President at Area/Code, which creates cross-media games and entertainment. London designs and develops opportunities for interacting with others – whether that be for people and plants, residents of Gaza City and Tel-Aviv or gamers playing tag with tiger sharks in the Great Barrier Reef. Her collaborative projects have been featured in the Museum of Science & Industry, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Design Museum of London. She frequently speaks on digital/physical hybridization.
At Area/Code, London works with clients that include the BBC, the Carnegie Institute/Girls Math and Science Project, Disney Imagineering, the United Kingdom's Department for Transport, Nike, Discovery Channel, CBS, MTV and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
Jon Miller is Chief Digital Officer, and Chairman and CEO, Digital Media Group for News Corporation, a role in which he drives the Company's overall digital strategy in conjunction with various operational heads, while also directly overseeing all of News Corp.'s standalone digital businesses.
Prior to News Corporation, Jon was a founding partner of Velocity Interactive Group, an investment firm focusing on digital media and the consumer Internet space.
Previously, Miller was Chairman and CEO of AOL from 2002 to 2006.
Earlier in his career, Jon was CEO and President of USA Information and Services— now IACI and Expedia —and also served as Managing Director of Nickelodeon International, a unit of Viacom's MTV Networks.
From 1987-1993, Miller was Vice President, Programming and Co-General Manager of NBA Entertainment, where he was responsible for league-wide brand management and programming.
Miller is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Film Institute and Live Nation Entertainment, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Emerson College and WNYC Public Radio in New York.
Jon resides in New York and holds a B.A. from Harvard College.
Ann Miura-Ko is a co-founding partner at FLOODGATE where her investment interests include the innovations in e-commerce, security, and big data.
In addition to serving at FLOODGATE, Ann is a lecturer in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, where she got her PhD focused on mathematical modeling of computer security. She teaches High Tech Entrepreneurship with Steve Blank and is a frequent lecturer in courses such as Technology Venture Formation, High-tech Entrepreneurship, and the Mayfield Fellows Program. Many of her students have gone on to secure Angel and VC funding for their ideas.
Prior to joining FLOODGATE and her stint at Stanford, Ann worked at Charles River Ventures and McKinsey and Company.
Ann grew up in Palo Alto, California and, as a result, was exposed at an early age to the world of startups, technology and venture capital. She developed an early passion for robotics and went on to major in electrical engineering at Yale University where she received her BS degree. For her senior project, she was part of a five person team that designed four robots to autonomously play soccer. That team placed fourth at the second annual Robocup competition held in Paris, France in 1998.
Tim has a history of convening conversations that reshape the industry. In 1998, he organized the meeting where the term "open source software" was agreed on, and helped the business world understand its importance. In 2004, with the Web 2.0 Summit, he defined how "Web 2.0" represented not only the resurgence of the web after the dot com bust, but a new model for the computer industry, based on big data, collective intelligence, and the internet as a platform. In 2009, with his "Gov 2.0 Summit," he framed a conversation about the modernization of government technology that has shaped policy and spawned initiatives at the Federal, State, and local level, and around the world. He has now turned his attention to implications of the on-demand economy and other technologies that are transforming the nature of work and the future shape of the business world. He is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media and a partner at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV). He is also a founder and board member at Maker Media, which spun out of O'Reilly Media in 2012, and a board member at Code for America, PeerJ, Civis Analytics, and PopVox.
BRE PETTIS is a founder of Makerbot, a company that produces robots that make things. Bre is also a founder of NYCResistor, a hacker collective in Brooklyn. Besides being a TV host and Video Podcast producer, he's created new media for Etsy.com, hosted Make: Magazine's Weekend Projects podcast, and has been a schoolteacher, artist, and puppeteer. Bre is passionate about invention, innovation, and all things DIY.
Ryan is currently the Director of Platform at Twitter where he works with developers building myriad of experiences on top of 140 characters. Prior to Twitter, he was the Director of Consumer Products at Skyhook Wireless where he led product initiatives that leveraged the WPS platform in consumer applications and experiences. Ryan was also one of the founding members of the W3C Geolocation API Working Group. He is an avid fan of hockey and wine.
Rana Sobhany is not a marketer, at least not in the traditional sense. She is a brand storyteller who believes that polish is the key to success in creating a lasting and memorable brand. Specializing in developing customer acquisition strategies, brand positioning, and leveraging public relations as marketing, Rana applies her unique style and methodology of integrated marketing communications to promoting companies and ideas across political, nonprofit, mobile, entertainment, advertising and social channels.
As a co-founder of Medialets, the largest in-application analytics and advertising platform, Rana Sobhany has been deeply involved in the successful design, implementation, and execution of comprehensive iPhone application marketing campaigns for products across the industry, and was among the first to promote app marketing as a discrete practice. She has coached mobile application developers at every level: solo developers; indie development shops; creative and media buying agencies; and large, venture-backed application firms. As a thought leader in the field of monetizing iPhone applications, Rana's assistance is frequently requested to help guide new and experienced developers through the world of marketing. Rana is a frequent speaker at mobile conferences, helping educate developers about how best to fit their products into the iPhone ecosystem.
Bret Taylor is the Chief Technology Officer of Facebook where he oversees the long-term technical direction of foundational products such as News Feed, Search and Facebook Platform. Previously, he was the co-founder and CEO of FriendFeed, which was acquired by Facebook in August 2009. Before starting FriendFeed, Bret worked at Google, where he co-created Google Maps, the Google Maps API, and started Google's developer product group. Bret holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.
The Gregory Brothers are well known for a series of YouTube videos, Auto-Tune the News, in which recorded voices of politicians, news anchors, and political pundits are digitally manipulated to conform to a melody, making the figures appear to sing. They are a musical group who characterize their music as "Country & Soul, Folk & Roll."
Members include Michael Gregory on drums and vocals, Andrew Rose Gregory on guitar and vocals, Evan Gregory on keys and vocals, and Sarah Fullen Gregory, on bass and vocals. They are most famous for their creation of musical viral videos, most notably the Auto-Tune the News series, which includes the Bed Intruder Song. The three brothers, originally from Radford, VA, moved to Brooklyn, NY in the mid-2000s and met Sarah in the local music scene. The four formed a band in 2007.
Baratunde Thurston is a politically-active, technology-loving comedian from the future. He co-founded the black political blog, Jack and Jill Politics and serves as Director of Digital for The Onion. He has written for Vanity Fair and the UK Independent, hosted Popular Science's Future Of on Discovery Science and appears on cable news regularly to say smart things in funny ways. Then-candidate Barack Obama called him "someone I need to know." Baratunde travels the world speaking and advising and performs standup regularly in NYC. He resides in Brooklyn, lives on Twitter and has over 30 years experience being black. His first book, How To Be Black, will be published in February 2012 by Harper Collins.
Fred Wilson has been a venture capitalist since 1987. He currently is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Fred is married with three kids and lives in New York City.
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The ASEAN Economic Community is set to coalesce in 2015. In advance of that, leaders in countries across the region are gathering to discuss what business will look like at the onset of the AEC and beyond, and what qualities successful leaders in ASEAN must have to compete and win.
In 2013 The Conference Board launched the ASEAN Leadership 2.0 Project, an ongoing crowd-sourced dialogue focused on helping the ASEAN business community develop leadership solutions. This report is the compilation of findings that emerged from this project.
To lead into the future, ASEAN leaders must honor tradition but embrace progressive change. But how do you get there?


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There's been a lot of back-and-forth about the links between Ridley Scott's new scifi feature Prometheus and the Alien franchise. Now the director's cleaned up some confusion about the movie's title and its place in the world of the xenomorphs.
In an interview with SpeakEasy, Ridley confirmed that the title is indeed related to the ancient myth about Prometheus the Titan who stole fire from the Gods (and gave it to the mortals). Alas, Prometheus was later punished for this deed by being chained to a cliff where an eagle would feast on his ever-regenerating liver daily. On that note, this is how Ridley is spinning his movie's namesake:
"Fire is our first form of technology," Scott says, and so by taking fire, the higher being is punished "in perpetuity in a horrible fashion."
That makes us assume that the xenomorphs are the old "eagle-and-liver" punishment. And according to Ridley, it's all going to come together in the end.
The last eight minutes of the "Prometheus" story evolve into "a pretty good DNA of the 'Alien' one."
Interesting! That sounds a lot like this script synopsis we received a while back, but fingers crossed that Ridley will apply the gothic horror paintbrush liberally. Prometheus will be in theaters on June 8, 2012.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The two-time-defending MLS Supporters' Shield-winning Columbus Crew announced today that the Crew Soccer Academy 17/18 squad -- which earned a third place finish out of the best 64 teams in the country at the inaugural U.S. Soccer Development Academy Finals in 2008 -- will face the U.S. Under-17 National Team in a youth friendly prior to the Crew's First Kick match against Trillium Cup-rival Toronto FC at Crew Stadium on March 27.
The match, which kicks off at 1 p.m., is part of a First Kick doubleheader and fans can gain entry to the youth friendly between CSA and the U.S. Under-17s with a ticket to the Crew's First Kick match against Toronto FC, which kicks off later that day at 4 p.m.
"Playing the U-17 National Team in Crew Stadium is a terrific opportunity and stage for both our model in general and our CSA 17/18s in particular," said Andrew Arthurs, the Crew's VP of Soccer Business Development. "We are extremely excited to host the 17s for four days of programming, and we know our players are very grateful and eager for the chance to compete against the highest level in the United States."
Fans can purchase tickets for Crew First Kick 2010 at the Crew Stadium Box Office, all central Ohio Ticketmaster retail locations, via Ticketmaster phone at 800-745-3000 and on-line at TheCrew.com and Ticketmaster.com. Fans can also still become Crew Soccer Nation members by purchasing full-season ticket packages or partial plans, starting as low as $95 for 5-Packs. Group tickets are also available for all 15 home games. All ticket packages or plans are available through TheCrew.com and 614-447-CREW.
The match against CSA is the first in a 10-game tour for the U.S. U-17 National Team from March until May, which features matches against five Academy clubs affiliated with MLS clubs - including the Crew Soccer Academy - and five other Development Academy opponents. The wide-ranging tour kicks off the national squad's early stages of preparation for the 2011 CONCACAF U-17 Championship and the subsequent 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
"Whenever we have the chance to play against one of the older Development Academy teams, it helps our younger players a lot," said U-17 head coach Wilmer Cabrera. "That is very positive for our players because the demands are greater, the speed of the game is faster, it makes the game harder and they have more responsibilities and can improve their level of play.
The Crew Soccer Academy 17/18 squad currently holds a record of 4-2-1 (13 pts) in the early portions of the U.S. Soccer Development Academy. CSA - which was founded in 2006 - is the program that provides the greatest opportunity and exposure for players to reach their highest level, and is one of the few programs in the country that is fully funded. No costs-for player fees, travel, accommodations, meals and Crew replica gear-are incurred by families. Players train and play at the Crew Training Center at Obetz and Crew Stadium. Crew Soccer Academy is a charter member of the U.S. Soccer Development Academy, which is supported by the U.S. National Teams and represents the highest level of competition for those ages in the country. Crew Soccer Academy is the only member of the Development Academy in central Ohio, and is the top boys level in Ohio. For more information, visit www.TheCrewYouth.com.
Founded by American sports pioneer Lamar Hunt, the Columbus Crew is Ohio's Major League Soccer club, anchoring a diverse sports and entertainment enterprise. One of the league's Charter Members, it won its first MLS Cup Championship in 2008 and has also won the 2002 U.S. Open Cup championship and MLS Supporters' Shield titles in 2004, 2008 and 2009. It will open its 15th season overall and 12th in first-of-its-kind Columbus Crew Stadium on Saturday, March 27 when it hosts Toronto FC in its 2010 regular season opener and first leg of the Trillium Cup competition.


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You Are Not Forgotten
As a child, when I would look at the little forget-me-nots, I sometimes felt a little like that flower—small and very insignificant. I wondered if I would be forgotten by my family or by my Heavenly Father.
Years later, I can look back on that young boy with tenderness and compassion. And I do know now I was never forgotten.
And I know something else. As an Apostle of our Master, Jesus Christ, I proclaim with all the certainty and conviction of my heart and soul—neither are you!
You are not forgotten.
Sisters, wherever you are, whatever the circumstances may be, you are not forgotten. No matter how dark your days may seem, no matter how insignificant you may feel, no matter how overshadowed you think you may be, your Heavenly Father has not forgotten you. In fact, He loves you, with an infinite love.
—President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
This was one of my favorite moments from the General Relief Society Meeting last night. I add my testimony to President Uchtdorf's, that I know that I am a daughter of a Heavenly Father who loves me and knows my trials and triumphs, my heartaches and my happiness. And that I am not alone. I am not forgotten.
You can find this and other highlights from the meeting here.
Also, I was a member of the choir that sang last night at the conference!


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Here at the cusp of the holiday buying spree (or what passes for a spree in the midst of this pesky recession), California Attorney General Jerry Brown issues a warning. It's okay to drop a lump of coal into Junior's stocking if you see fit, but you can't have lead in any product aimed at children.
Brown sent out letters to six big retailers, telling them to pull from their shelves a number of products testing shows contain excessive amounts of lead. California considers anything more than 300 parts per million to be excessive when it comes to lead.
All of the targeted items contain at least twice that amount of lead, according to the tests. One had more lthan 70 times the acceptable level. Lead is a toxic metal known to damage the nervous system. Lead can impair brain development, especially in children. They ingest the lead when they put these items in their mouths, or if they just put their hands in their mouths after touching the toys and clothes.
So this is what you want to know. Below is a list of the toys that should be pulled from store shelves. If you see these, the state Attorney General says don't buy them. And if you have them, you should think about returning them.
- Kids Poncho, sold at WalMart, contains 667 ppm of lead.
- MSY Faded Glory Rebecca Shoes, sold at WalMart, contains 1331 ppm of lead
- Dora the Explorer Activity Tote, sold at TJ Maxx, contains 2348 ppm of lead
- Paula Fuschia Open-Toes Shoes, sold at Sears, contains 3957 ppm of lead
- Reversible Croco Belt, sold at Target, contains 4270 ppm of lead.
- Barbie Bike Flair Accessory Kit, sold at Tuesday Morning, contains 6196 ppm of lead.
And the most leaded of them all...
- The Disney Fairies Silvermist's Water Lily Necklace, sold at Walgreens. Brown says his test results show 22000ppm of lead.
Brown's office says the Consumer Product Safety Commission has also been notified. The CPSC could order a recall of the products.