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O'Reilly Media <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704779704574555713059558916.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"><strong>Onstage, Terrified</strong></a> &ndash; "It is always reassuring to read about the performance anxiety of the successful--whether it's a star pitcher feeling jittery before starting a World Series game or a concert violinist who admits to going into a meditative trance before walking out onstage," writes Philip Delves Broughton of the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> in his <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704779704574555713059558916.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"><strong>entertaining review of Scott Berkun's <em>Confessions of a Public Speaker</em></strong></a>. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/uTWtuBn1sNg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1886 text http://blogs.oreilly.com/blurbs/2009/11/25/confessions-wsj.png http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704779704574555713059558916.html?mod=googlenews_wsj tag:blogs.oreilly.com,2009:/blurbs//59.38591 2009-11-25T19:08:57Z 2009-11-25T19:08:57Z

How to Find, Install, and Configure Drupal Themes How can I use an Android phone on Verizon's service? What's your backup system at home? Recent questions: What is your favorite lightweight email client for Windows? Have you tried Google Wave? How can you convert MIME email files into Outlook on Linux? Share knowledge, ask questions on O'Reilly Answers today.

O'Reilly Media <ul style="margin: 0 0 0 1.2em; padding: 3px 0 10px 0;"> <li style="padding-bottom: 6px;"> <a href="http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/581-how-to-find-install-and-configure-drupal-themes/">How to Find, Install, and Configure Drupal Themes</a></li> <li style="padding-bottom: 6px;"> <a href="http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/776-how-can-i-use-an-android-phone-on-verizons-service/">How can I use an Android phone on Verizon's service?</a></li> <li style="padding-bottom: 6px;"> <a href="http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/702-whats-your-backup-system-at-home/">What's your backup system at home?</a></li> </ul> <b>Recent questions:</b> <ul style="margin: 0 0 0 1.2em; padding: 3px 0 10px 0;"> <li style="padding-bottom: 6px;"> <a href="http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/750-what-is-your-favorite-lightweight-email-client-for-windows/">What is your favorite lightweight email client for Windows?</a></li> <li style="padding-bottom: 6px;"> <a href="http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/779-have-you-tried-google-wave/">Have you tried Google Wave?</a></li> <li style="padding-bottom: 6px;"> <a href="http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/575-how-can-you-convert-mime-email-files-into-outlook-on-linux/">How can you convert MIME email files into Outlook on Linux?</a></li> </ul> Share knowledge, ask questions on <a href="http://answers.oreilly.com/">O'Reilly Answers</a> today. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/iWtkQBn9Dns" height="1" width="1"/> text http://blogs.oreilly.com/blurbs/2009/11/25/answers-3faces.png http://answers.oreilly.com/ tag:radar.oreilly.com,2009://57.38588 2009-11-25T11:00:00Z 2009-11-25T11:00:00Z

Copyright, Findability, and Other Ideas from NDF (Julie Starr) -- A newspaper industry guru attended the National Digital Forum where Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums talk about their digital issues, where she discovered that newspapers and GLAMs have a lot in common. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

Nat Torkington http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 <a href="http://evolvingnewsroom.co.nz/copyright-findability-and-other-ideas-from-ndf">Copyright, Findability, and Other Ideas from NDF</a> (Julie Starr) -- A newspaper industry guru attended the <a href="http://ndf.natlib.govt.nz">National Digital Forum</a> where Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums talk about their digital issues, where she discovered that newspapers and GLAMs have a lot in common. This and more in today's Four Short Links. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/jk6-caBC0gg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 text http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/11/25/nationaldigitalforum.jpg http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/11/four-short-links-25-november-2.html tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38584 2009-11-24T21:10:52Z 2009-11-24T21:10:52Z

I have written in the past about the the vision that drove Steve Jobs in pursuing his ambition for Apple. A cursory glance at the significant milestones in the careers of Walt Disney and Steve Jobs suggests an otherworldly ability to invent, re-invent and extend 'unfair advantages' across seemingly orthogonal domains. Steve Jobs is the closest thing to Walt Disney since Walt Disney, now forever bound by Pixar.

Mark Sigal http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1308 I have written in the past about the the vision that drove Steve Jobs in pursuing his ambition for Apple. A cursory glance at the significant milestones in the careers of Walt Disney and Steve Jobs suggests an otherworldly ability to invent, re-invent and extend 'unfair advantages' across seemingly orthogonal domains. Steve Jobs is the closest thing to Walt Disney since Walt Disney, now forever bound by Pixar. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/cf8e2jzXxTY" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1308 text http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/25/apple-jobs.jpg http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/steve-jobs-is-the-closest-thin.html tag:radar.oreilly.com,2009://57.38583 2009-11-24T17:05:00Z 2009-11-24T17:05:00Z

Jesse Robbins http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3579 We're entering our third year of <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/velocity2010">Velocity, the Web Performance &amp; Operations Conference.</a> Velocity 2010 will be June 22-24, 2010 in Santa Clara, CA. It's going to be another incredible year. <a href="http://www.souders.org">Steve Souders</a> &amp; I have set a new theme this year, "Fast by Default". We want the broader Velocity community &amp; to adopt it as a shared mission &amp; mantra. The reason for this is simple. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/SMsyFons-9c" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3579 text http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/11/24/velocity-2010-230x126.png http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/11/velocity-2010-fast-by-default.html tag:blogs.oreilly.com,2009:/blurbs//59.38581 2009-11-24T16:07:06Z 2009-11-24T16:07:06Z

For leaders, managers and anyone who speaks and expects someone to listen, Scott Berkun shares an insider's perspective on how to effectively present ideas to anyone. Loosely based on his third book, Confessions of a Public Speaker, this fun, interactive webcast brings you lively lessons and insightful confessions, giving you new insights into the art of persuasion--as well as teaching and learning--directly from a master of the trade. Bring your toughest questions and situations for Scott to answer or solve. Attendance is limited, so register now! More Upcoming Webcasts and Online Conferences: DRBD and MySQL - An HA Match Made In Heaven Using ICT (Information & Communications Technology) to Create a Sustainable Business Where 2.0 Online Conference - An Emphasis on iPhone Sensors Velocity Online Conference - Fast by Default Check out our Webcast page for on-demand videos of past webcasts and more upcoming live events!

O'Reilly Media For leaders, managers and anyone who speaks and expects someone to listen, Scott Berkun shares an insider's perspective on how to effectively present ideas to anyone. Loosely based on his third book, <a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801991/">Confessions of a Public Speaker</a>, this fun, interactive webcast brings you lively lessons and insightful confessions, giving you new insights into the art of persuasion--as well as teaching and learning--directly from a master of the trade. Bring your toughest questions and situations for Scott to answer or solve. <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/1494">Attendance is limited, so register now!</a> <br /><br /> More Upcoming Webcasts and Online Conferences: <br /><br /> <ul style="margin: 0 0 0 1.2em; padding: 3px 0 10px 0;"> <li style="padding-bottom: 6px;"><a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/1508">DRBD and MySQL - An HA Match Made In Heaven</a></li> <li style="padding-bottom: 6px;"><a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/1495">Using ICT (Information & Communications Technology) to Create a Sustainable Business</a></li> <li style="padding-bottom: 6px;"><a href="http://en.oreilly.com/wherefall09/">Where 2.0 Online Conference - An Emphasis on iPhone Sensors</a></li> <li style="padding-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://en.oreilly.com/velocityfall09/">Velocity Online Conference - Fast by Default </a></li> </ul> Check out our <a href="http://oreilly.com/webcasts/"><strong>Webcast page</strong></a> for on-demand videos of past webcasts and more upcoming live events! <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/Bfiwzl7C1Zo" height="1" width="1"/> text http://blogs.oreilly.com/blurbs/2009/11/06/scott_berkun.jpg http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/1494 tag:blogs.oreilly.com,2009:/blurbs//59.38580 2009-11-24T16:01:05Z 2009-11-24T16:01:05Z

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English Shellcode (PDF) -- paper presented at ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, showing how to encode arbitrary x86 shell code (the payload in a malware or other attack that elevates privileges and pwns your machine) as something that looks, at first glance, to be English text. Impressive piece of work. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

Nat Torkington http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 <a href="http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~sam/ccs243-mason.pdf">English Shellcode</a> (PDF) -- paper presented at ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, showing how to encode arbitrary x86 shell code (the payload in a malware or other attack that elevates privileges and pwns your machine) as something that looks, at first glance, to be English text. Impressive piece of work. This and more in today's Four Short Links. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/fCY5qDwe3SU" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 text http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/11/24/english-shellcode.jpg http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/11/four-short-links-24-november-2.html tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38579 2009-11-24T06:41:05Z 2009-11-24T06:41:05Z

SAMBA's Jeremy Allison has a great post Why writing a Windows compatible file server is (still) hard. What leaps out to me? First, that the method of requiring complete documentation outside a formalized QA process doesn't work real well. The second thing is that even if there is documentation, some incompatibilities come down to capability mismatches.

Rick Jelliffe http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1712 SAMBA's <a href="http://blog.coverity.com/posts/voices-of-scan-community/jeremy-allison-interview">Jeremy Allison</a> has a great post <a href="http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/datacenter/?p=1341">Why writing a Windows compatible file server is (still) hard</a>. What leaps out to me? First, that the method of requiring complete documentation outside a formalized QA process doesn't work real well. The second thing is that even if there is documentation, some incompatibilities come down to capability mismatches. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/7BfxxUPb_ew" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1712 text http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/how-far-can-documentation-go.html tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38578 2009-11-24T05:33:06Z 2009-11-24T05:33:06Z

Rick Jelliffe http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1712 Stuart Myles has a quick slide presentation <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/smyles/schematron-and-other-useful-tools">Schematron and Other Useful Tools</a> at the <a href="http://www.iptc.org/ ">IPTC</a> Autumn Meeting about how the Associated Press reduced manual checking &amp; QA of incoming iAtom feeds using open source tools. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/32qtY586Kro" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1712 text http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/24/ap-schematron.jpg http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/schematron-at-the-associated-p.html tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38576 2009-11-24T01:46:06Z 2009-11-24T01:46:06Z

Are you looking to take advantage of social media for your business or organization? With easy-to-understand introductions to blogging, forums, opinion and review sites, and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, The Social Media Marketing Book will help you choose the best--and avoid the worst--of the social web's unique marketing opportunities.

Mary Rotman http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3061 Are you looking to take advantage of social media for your business or organization? With easy-to-understand introductions to blogging, forums, opinion and review sites, and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, <a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596806583/">The Social Media Marketing Book</a> will help you choose the best--and avoid the worst--of the social web's unique marketing opportunities. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/F_WamVRR-DI" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3061 text http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/23/dan_zarrella_lg.jpg http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/dan-zarrella-on-social-media-m.html tag:radar.oreilly.com,2009://57.38560 2009-11-23T21:27:36Z 2009-11-23T21:27:36Z

After posting some thoughts a month ago about Erving Goffman's classic sociological text, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, I heard from a reader who urged me to try out a deeper work of Goffman's, Frame Analysis (Harper Colophon, 1974). This blog presents the thoughts that came to mind as I made my way through that long and rambling work. Although the Internet tends to strip away the external meanings Goffman recorded, we still bring our real-life frameworks into online interactions.

Andy Oram http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/36 After <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/what-sociologist-erving-goffma.html"> posting some thoughts</a> a month ago about Erving Goffman's classic sociological text, <em>The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life</em>, I heard from a reader who urged me to try out a deeper work of Goffman's, <em>Frame Analysis</em> (Harper Colophon, 1974). This blog presents the thoughts that came to mind as I made my way through that long and rambling work. Although the Internet tends to strip away the external meanings Goffman recorded, we still bring our real-life frameworks into online interactions. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/xcJXo6dyQYM" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/36 text http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/11/more-that-sociologist-erving-g.html tag:blogs.oreilly.com,2009:/blurbs//59.38575 2009-11-23T20:20:19Z 2009-11-23T20:20:19Z

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William here, continuing the e-reader discussion with an in-depth look at the Nook from Barnes & Noble. Anyone who's been watching the e-reader and e-book market knows, the Nook is the latest entry in this highly competitive space where Sony, Amazon and now Barnes & Noble look to be the global leaders. The Nook features a third generation e-ink VizPlex electronic paper display as well as a touchscreen LCD.

William Stanek http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2573 William here, continuing the e-reader discussion with an in-depth look at the Nook from Barnes & Noble. Anyone who's been watching the e-reader and e-book market knows, the Nook is the latest entry in this highly competitive space where Sony, Amazon and now Barnes & Noble look to be the global leaders. The Nook features a third generation e-ink VizPlex electronic paper display as well as a touchscreen LCD. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/TRu9SZ7ofdE" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2573 text http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/24/nook-reader.jpg http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/inside-the-e-book-wars-the-noo.html tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.35790 2009-11-23T14:00:00Z 2009-11-23T14:00:00Z

Metadata has the ability to give us context to the media we are dealing with. It also makes for an interesting data source. Using the Flash Platform we can combine information all ready contained in files that you are using along with web services to create an interesting user experience. This tutorial will combine id3 metadata from your mp3's to power an Flickr image search. Our final output will be an AIR application written with Flex Builder 3.

Russ Ferguson http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3715 Metadata has the ability to give us context to the media we are dealing with. It also makes for an interesting data source. Using the Flash Platform we can combine information all ready contained in files that you are using along with web services to create an interesting user experience. This tutorial will combine id3 metadata from your mp3's to power an Flickr image search. Our final output will be an AIR application written with Flex Builder 3. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/news/~4/E88tmXaTSIk" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3715 video http://www.insideria.com/2009/11/24/metadata-flash.jpg http://www.insideria.com/2009/11/metadata-and-the-flash-platfor.html