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BarCampOrlando (April 5th & 6th 2008) is over!
What an exciting event filled with great presentations, great people and lots of fun! The blogosphere is filled with posts of passion, go ahead, just do a search in Google for "barcamporlando" and see what you find.

Upcoming Tech Events in Central Florida

Orlando Ruby Users Group - April 10th, 2008
The next Orlando Ruby Users Group is Thursday, April 10th at 7pm and will be held at DeVry in Orlando, room #121. This event is sponsored by Veredus. First presentation will be given by Thomas Meeks which will an overview of Starling. Then Mike Blake will be giving a talk on Natural Language Modeling.

Upcoming Tech Events in Central Florida

Refresh Central Florida - April 17th, 2008
The FIRST meeting for Refresh Central Florida Group is Thursday, April 17th at 7pm and will be held at DeVry in Orlando. Here is a map for DeVry University.

Upcoming Tech Events in Central Florida

Florida Creatives Happy Hour - April 21st, 2008
Florida Creatives will have a happy hour at Crooked Bayou (located in downtown Orlando near the Library) Monday, April 21st from 6:00-9:00pm. Creative people welcome!

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Apr 09 2008

What is a Blog!

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The term “blog” is a contraction of “weblog” and was coined by Jorn Barger on December 17, 1997. The short form, “blog”, was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog in the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999. This was quickly adopted as both a noun and verb (”to blog”, meaning “to edit one’s weblog or to post to one’s weblog”).

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