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One of my great joys is when people contribute to my community websites -- for example, a San Diego Bloggers badge. Well, blogger --Doug Gates just contributed two new ones, with these words: Here are two badges that capture essential elements of San Diego that haven't been used on any ...

From LA Weekly, and previously, LAVoice.org comes this: Two San Diego entrepreneurs figure they have the perfect software-outsourcing scheme: Moor a ship just offshore from Los Angeles with hundreds of foreign developers aboard churning out code on the cheap. With 24-hour operation, the best (and least costly) coders on ...

via socalTECH.com: Sony Jumps Into Online Auction Market San Diego-based Sony Online Entertainment announced this morning that it has launched an official auction site, geared around auctioning items from Sony Online Entertainment Games. The company's new Station Exchange puts an official blessing on selling characters, items, and virtual ...

I've just integrated the delicious plugin for WordPress into the sidebar of the site. It pulls in the most recent links tagged with "san diego" over on the social-bookmarking site del.icio.us. Accounts with them are free, and it seems spam-free. If you sign up with del.icio.us ...

UCSD's Library has a system of Electronic Reserves that is drawing legal nastygrams from lawyers for the American Association of Publishers, reports the (subscription only) Chronicle of Higher Education. You can read the text of the story in the archives of the IP list. In recent months, lawyers for the Association of American Publishers have sent letters to the university that object to the use of electronic reserves on the San Diego campus. The publishers say that the use of electronic reserves is too extensive, violating the "fair use" doctrine of copyright law and depriving them of sales. University officials counter that the electronic reserves at San Diego are well within the bounds of fair use. They worry that the letters portend a lawsuit. "They clearly had a lawsuit in mind when they started contacting our office," said Mary MacDonald, a lawyer for the university system. "Their position was that the 'evidence' showed that we weren't following fair-use guidelines, that this was a national issue, and that the set of facts gave them a good platform from which to take legal action."

Many2Many, a blog about social software, notes the downsides of Meetup.com, an online service that helps facilitate in-person meetings, starting to charge fees of $19/month ($9/month if you start paying now), while still eliciting sympathy for the problem of creating revenue. Bloggers in San Diego have tried ...

So the blogosphere is abuzz with Google Maps. We are too. Google SightSeeing has inspired us to go looking for cool stuff in San Diego. La Jolla Cove San Diego Zoo Convention Center Dog Beach Torrey Pines Glider Port - I think Black's Beach ...

San Diego has been invaded by bloggers and geeks from around the world attending the annual O'Reilly Emergent Technology Conference which officially kicked off last night and will continue through Thursday at the Convention Center. As Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing noted last week, this conference ...

SoCal FreeFi is the most comprehensive resource I've seen for finding free internet access in the San Diego and Southern California area. Their list of San Diego Hotspots include all of my own favorite spots for a quick cup of coffee and info-snacking ...

SDAFF and Landmark Theaters invite you to an advanced screening of Nobody Knows on Thursday, February 17th, 7pm at Hillcrest Cinemas. Premise: Four siblings live with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. All the children have different fathers and none ...

This LiveJournal thread giving advice to someone moving to San Diego is a fun conversation about traffic, music, weather, prices, and more.

Amazon's A9 starts Block View maps for San Diego.

While I keep failing on my promise to put together a San Diego Wi-Fi directory, the volunteers at Socal Free Net have been hard at work to offer free wireless in and around San Diego. Their latest success story - Normal Heights: On ...

In my latest KPBS newsletter there was an advertisement (or are they called "off air" announcements?) for CyberBrew Net Cafe. Has anyone been to this place yet? Their website could clearly use some work, but it seems like they've got big plans for San Diego. There is already at ...

I'm currently upgrading the site to version 1.5beta of WordPress to fight comment spam and enable some better management features that oso has been clambering for. Things will continue to look wrong or bad. With luck this will be done with today and things will look hunky dory.

Steve Holden sent us: Orange County Podcast group This is going to be a group that meets monthly to talk about podcasting (as a broadcaster), podcatching (as a user), and also from a developer perspective (we need cool new tools). hat tip Thanks Steve! Oso mentioned podcasting here on SDB ...

A new page on this site is at http://sandiegoblog.com/suggest/ -- a means to allow people to suggest sites easier. So often, people send a link, without really explaining why it's significant -- this makes it hard to blog about. So, dear readers, feel free to suggest cool sites now! As ...

Today's Union-Tribune has an interesting article about the San Diego origins of the surprising hit resource of the internet - Wikipedia: Back at the end of the Internet's wacky-idea era, entrepreneur Jimmy Wales and academician Larry Sanger were trying to create a free, online encyclopedia called ...

Just got this news for photo nuts from my buddy Mark Holmes: We have just launched the Web site for San Diego Digital SLR photography group. It replaces our Yahoo group, which currently has aproximately 80 members. We welcome new users of digital SLR cameras, as well as experienced ...

GoodSpeedUpdate has an interesting piece called On "Cool Cities" and Blogs which includes our own San Diego in spots. My theory: cities with the richest local online culture (measured in number of blogs, and use of a select group of other geographically-bound websites) will reflect those cities with the ...