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Smaug Meetings

To be announced on mail list (see below).

This Thursday, 2 September 2010, we will meet at the IHOP on 41st Ave near Capitola Road in Capitola, near the Shell station and Savemart. The meeting will start at 7:30 pm and continue until 10 pm.

We will be meeting at Cafe Pergolesi in downtown Santa Cruz from time to time. To be announced.

Announcing

An alpha pre-release of Fedora 14 is available - There's a link on the lower right of this page.

Felton LUG
Meetings of the Felton LUG are generally held on the first Saturday of each month at the firehouse in Felton, 131 Kirby Street, from 2 to 5 or 6 pm.
This summer the Felton LUG has a table at the Felton Farmer's Market, held on Tuesday afternoons next to St John's Catholic Church.
Phone: 831 335 7303
Email: lcafiero@fixedbylinux.com
Join: http://groups.google.com/group/felton-lug?lnk=srg

Cabrillo's CGLUG hosts an installfest on the 3rd Friday evening of each month, during the school year. For further information, check the
CGLUG web site. Also, there is a CGLUG group on Facebook.

Lindependence ran a series of installfests in Felton a couple of summers ago. They plan to have another series in the San Lorenzo Valley in the future. For further information, check the Lindependence Web Site

Events

Linux Picnic
Picn*x XIX - The Linux 19th Anniversary Picnic!

Linux Picn*x 19 was held on Saturday 21 August 2010 at Sunnyvale Baylands Park.

DEF CON 18
The DEF CON 18 hacking conference took place - July 30th - August 1st, 2010 at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Defcon 18 Web Site

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Writing about Technology Niche

Submitted by flaneur on Thursday, May 21, 2009 - 01:50

Writing articles or providing essay writing copies about technology, IT and computers has long been supplied by several publishing companies. However, writing about computer gadgets and the latest technology has also taken the spotlight thru online publishing.

We see thousands of IT related websites and blogs that make investment out of this highly profitable niche. Even if you are an essay writer or an article writer, it doesn't necessarily mean that writing about gadgets, IT news, and technological advancement would be a piece of cake.

However, if you are interested about starting a blog or site that would deal about this topic, here are some useful tips that would help you write about this subject even if you haven't touched this field of industry before.

1. Get updated.

This would definitely be the first thing that would enter in mind once you have decided to write about IT topics. However, this may not be easy to accomplish, simply because there are too many updates that will confuse you and definitely waste your time. Remember that there are thousands of IT related sites and they too have some information to share. How to deal with this? Don't overwhelm yourself with all these information begging for your attention. Pick at least 4 to 8 authority sites about Technology, Computers and Gadgets, IT and Internet Industry. What I could suggest is go and visit Alexa Top Sites and visit several IT related sites that made the list, this way you'll get updates to the most visited websites and that means that you'll get updated with the "hottest" news and deals without getting drowned with all these bulge of information.

2. Get Google Alerts

This will make your life easy. Subscribe to the IT sites you've chosen and let Google Alerts feed you with their content. No need to visit each site everyday. You'll only have to check your mail or visit your Google Reader to see if there's any update.

3. Subscribe to Relevant Blogs.

This way you are starting to merge yourself in the IT community. Set up yourself a Twitter account, get online presence by following relevant blogs, (those blogs you think would be relevant about your niche) and provide comments on their blogs once in a while. Most bloggers create a community and sometimes it is easier to get updates once you are inside the bloggers' ring of community.

4. Attend to Launchings, Events and Openings.

Be updated with IT related Events, book releases, launchings whenever possible. This will make it more like an exclusive scoop.

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