The Web and Politics:
John Heilemann (New York Magazine), Arianna Huffington (The Huffington Post), Gavin Newsom (City and County of San Francisco), Joe Trippi (Trippi and Associates)
Larry Wall, father of perl, likens the history of perl to raising a child. In this live interview at OSCON 2008, Larry talks about perl's rebellious teen years, the role of the benevolent dictator, and dual licensing as a quantum physics phenomenon.
Filmed at O'Reilly FOO Camp 2008, security researcher Dan Kaminsky explains his discovery of a major protocol-level flaw in DNS and how he got major vendors to do something about it. For more information on the bug visit doxpara.com and news.oreilly.com.
Instant Rails is getting old, but it's still a quick way to install Rails and start coding. This screencast shows how to download and install Instant Rails, and shows off how it works with a simple example from Chapter 2 of Learning Rails.
Chris Brogan shares strategies and tactics for putting the web's most popular social media tools to work in ways that will make a difference. Positioned "for publishers," the advice given in this webcast will actually benefit any organization that has an online presence. This is part of the O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing (TOC) series of webcasts.
A Conversation with Michael Pollan, Michael Pollan (Author: "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" and "The Omnivore?Äôs Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals"), John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing)
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