This weekend there will be a lot of folks at the Innovation Depot downtown participating in Birmingham’s second ever BarCamp (April 12 information). So you may be asking, “What is BarCamp?” It is our own “un”conference. OK, you probably need a little more info.
It’s a conference where the content is provided, chosen and presented by [...]

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Screenshot of the Birmingham Public Library’s Twitter page.
There have been several groups that have recently signed up with Twitter, tweeting to their heart’s content. The latest major addition to the network is our own Birmingham Public Library. If you visit http://twitter.com/bpl, you’ll be able to keep up with the latest happenings throughout the system. [...]

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… and it’s definitely a mix of opinions across cyberspace. It appears that even though the story broke several months ago, mainstream national media is just now beginning to report about the pending arrival of our school system’s XO laptop computers and it’s getting really interesting.
The folks at Moving at the Speed of Creativity talks [...]

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Screenshot of Birmingham View’s News Portal. 
Birmingham View editor in chief (and frequent Terminal contributor) Vickii Howell announced the creation of a virtual news portal in her monthly e-newsletter yesterday. This new addition to the publication’s website will allow for her to post stories as they happen that would otherwise not be able to appear on [...]

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Screenshot of Commuter Feed
So, you’re sitting in traffic along U.S. 280 and you’re wondering just what’s keeping you from continuing your journey. CommuterFeed.com seems like it could be the next answer to our need for that kind of information.
As much as we know all of you like to use the Traffic.com feed (for those that [...]

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Soon you’ll be getting at least a couple of hours of free internet access coming to you at Birmingham area Starbucks. The Seattle-based coffee company announced today that it will soon end its long term partnership with T-Mobile, instead working with AT&T to offer their customers up to two hours of free wireless access at [...]

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Photo credit: André Natta/Flickr
The biggest story that I saw covered by mainstream media and bloggers last week while I was out of town involved a recent “discovery” by city officials that Birmingham City Schools were not ready to fully utilize our soon to be delivered XO laptops. Here’s an example of what it could look [...]

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