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Commentary: 'Unconferences' Extend Web2.0 to Events

I spent last Friday at the State Theater, a popular entertainment venue in Falls Church, Va. - but not at a show. I attended the third (and final) Blog Potomac "unconference," a congregation of social media marketing enthusiasts from the Washington metropolitan region. From the grassroots organizers to the happy hour bar to the denim dress, this wasn't your average conference.

Commentary: Early Reviews of Windows 7 Are Mostly Good

Goodbye Windows Vista and hello Windows 7. Microsoft just released a new version of its operating system. It is called Windows 7 and is being marketed as a fast, agile, easy-to-use improvement from the last operating system release, Windows Vista. Some of the "new" features aren't really new, but improved. Here are the top four, in my opinion.

Commentary: Judge.....Your Honor.....John?

At the Maryland Conference of Bar Presidents hosted by the MSBA this past weekend, I was sitting at a conference table discussing something bar related with a group of attorneys, including a couple members of the bench. When I started this thing that I call "my legal career," I took the position that, no matter what you ever wanted to call a jurist, the only appropriate names include Judge or Your Honor. During the course of this meeting and during the course of the Conference, several partic...

Educational Travel: More College Students Go to Study the World

Laura Langberg chose to attend Goucher College in large part because of its requirement that all students study abroad. "It was a huge factor," says Langberg, who grew up in California. While at Goucher, she has studied for a semester in Mali and gone on a three-week research trip to South Africa. "I didn't know what I wanted to study," she says, "but I knew I wanted to study abroad."

Commentary: Shadow Government Redux

Things happen. You wake up some morning and you've got a complex web of half- city and half-private corporations taking on a variety of government projects. There's even a $100 million city-run bank. Only a handful of people know anything about it. The green eyeshade guys had some ideas. And off they went.