Dinner Tonight with Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold

If your in London today and would love to meet up for Dinner with Howard Rheingold of the SmartMobs and Virtual Community fame

This is very last minute and we are going to have a meal rather than the usual geekdinner. So expect to pay for a meal and drinks. The venue is undecided and will be decided on at some point during the evening. But I expect it will be near Victoria or Kensington.

Howard Rheingold is one of the world's foremost authorities on the social implications of technology. Over the past twenty years he has traveled around the world, observing and writing about emerging trends in computing, communications, and culture. One of the creators and former founding executive editor of HotWired, he has served as editor of The Whole Earth Review, editor-in-chief of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, and on-line host for The Well. The author of several books, including The Virtual Community, Virtual Reality, and Tools for Thought, he lives in Mill Valley, California.

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One Web Day

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I should have a really good video for one web day (22nd September). Howard Rheingold talking to the BBC in a talk titled Co-operate or Die! Should have the video online sometime tonight, so keep an eye on a update soon.

I've added a couple of question and answer videos here. But i'm still processing the actual talk video, which will show up under the same url someday soon.

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Serious Window Problem indentified by Microsoft

After listening to Security now Episode 58, I had write a quick blog post to warn people about this very (I would say) critical flaw in Windows XP and IE. I have temporarily patched my systems by unregistering the VGX DLL. I would highly suggest everyone do the same by copying the following code into your run dialog box and restarting your machine.

regsvr32 -u “%CommonProgramFiles%Microsoft SharedVGXvgx.dll”

Much more information and another flaw affecting only Windows 2000 users can be found at the security now notes page.

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