Author Archives: Matt

In 2002 I started contributing to Open Source software, and life has just gotten better from there. Co-founder of WordPress, founder Automattic.

Gran Tourismo

Miguel Angel Corzo is giving a background on the music here at the conference. All of the music is from students at his conservatory, the Colburn Institute. He thought it’d be a good start to talk about one piece, called Gran Tourismo. In his view these conferences really are about a sense of discovery, a […]

Kevin Kelly and Eduardo Santana

Eduardo Santana on the left is from Guadalajara, he’s a biologist (with a penchant for birds) and he’s currently working on creating a new natural science museum. He’s here to gain perspective to help him shape the museum, which they hope to launch in 2011. Kevin Kelly is a speaker at EG. He has a […]

Different Strokes Cheatsheat

The first session today is going to be called “Different Strokes.” You can of course read the bios of all the presenters, but here are a few links and recent news about each that hopefully give a little more background. Richard Saul Wurnman — home page, Wikipedia entry, his 81 books. (One of which I […]

Conference Tag: eg2007

I’m going to borrow something the tech conferences I usually attend and declare a conference tag: eg2007. What’s that mean? A tag is just a keyword attached to something, like a blog post or picture. If we all use the same tag while talking about the same thing, it makes it easy to aggregate the […]

In the Beginning

We’re a mere hours away from the beginning of Entertainment Gathering 2007, so now is as good a time as any to kick off coverage here with an introduction. The goal of this blog is to document the conference for posterity, providing a glimpse for the people not able to attend and color for those […]

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