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This weekend Houston will hold it's third BarCamp at the Houston Technology Center. BarCamp is an "unconference", or a user generated series of participatory sessions. BarCamps are held all over the world on six continents. Topics covered at BarCamp range from new web applications to open source technologies. Open and free to the public, BarCamp requests that all attendees participate in a session. As the wiki states: "This is called sharing, and we like it."

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Local tech news in a compact, digital format. The BarCamp Houston Files Here's a roundup of links, blog posts and photos from BarCamp Houston 2. Dwight Silverman experimented by covering BarCamp ad nauseum through Twitter. If you couldn't be there Dwight's Twitter Litter could keep you up to date virtually minute by minute. Jim Thompson, Katherine Druckman, Robert Nagle, A Wandering Eyre and sean.blog were there too and posted their experiences. There are also...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. City WiFi Still On Hold It's been a few months since Mayor Bill White approved a multi-million dollar deal with EarthLink to provide over 640 square miles of wireless service to Houston and we are still waiting. Earthlink should have already started installing wireless nodes on light poles around the city but has failed to do so. EarthLink is still within time constraints set by the...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. What Does A Hydrogen Generator Look Like? Last week we told you about Trulite's revolutionary hydrogen generator. This week we found an image of this generator and wanted to share it with you. Bum Shuttle Computer Is From Conroe A computer bound for the space shuttle Endeavour that was found to have been deliberately damaged came from Conroe based Invocon, Inc.. Invocon Inc. is a systems...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Jay Lee's Helpline Helps Jay Lee tackles reader questions over at The Chronicle in his HelpLine Blog. Here are some recent reader queries. A reader had problems with file associations and Jay put them back on track. Another reader had issues with kids accessing her files. Read how enabling log on passwords solved her problem. See how email auto-formatting helps avoid annoying links. Check out Jay's...