Unit Structures Fred Stutzman’s thoughts about information, social networks and technology.

Guest Lectures in Technologies of Friendship

Wayne Sutton, one of my esteemed guest lecturers in last night’s (penultimate) Technologies of Friendship class, streamed and recorded the lectures via Ustream.tv.  If you’d like to check them out, here’s a link – and I’ve embedded the video.

Streaming live video by Ustream

Thank you again to my speakers – Brian, Wayne, Dave and Abe. We had great conversation and I’m pretty sure we could have kept going for a few more hours (which is saying something for being in class on 8:30PM on a Monday). To find out more about the speakers and their projects, check out the following:

• Brian Russell, founder of Carrboro Coworking (about, videos).
  
• Dave Johnson of Sun Microsystems, Roller Weblogger, and BarCampRDU and the Apache Software Foundation.
  
• Wayne Sutton of SocialCarolina, 30Threads and BarCampRDU
  
• Abe Crystal, who recently defended his Ph.D. and is working on a startup named Ruzuku

Thanks again to my speakers for a great set of talks.

This was a very enjoyable class. The topics bridged our semester-long class discussions with practical applications of social media technologies in the Raleigh-Chapel Hill area. I also found one of Brian’s recommendations useful: a great visual information management program called “TheBrain”.