A new theatre production has been created by Perform exclusively for Symantec UK as part of its Norton Family Online Safety Initiative. The performance will be shown to more than 10,000 children in primary schools across London and the Home Counties in October 2008 to teach them ways to use the Internet in a safe and responsible manner.

You can watch a video of the 43-minute performance at: http://www.bitebroadcast.com/symantec_public/perform/

The O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference will discuss location technology, explore the boundaries of geospace, and point the way into the location frontier at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA, May 19-21, 2009.

O’Reilly Media and program chair Brady Forrest invite proposals for conference sessions, workshops, demos, and panels for Where 2.0 2009.

WebHostingBuzz has released 71 free WordPress themes and templates for bloggers. Two and three column template designs are available in a variety of color schemes and styles to ensure anyone can have a stylish blog up and running in a matter of minutes.

The Apple iPhone retains an enormous amount of user data, including voicemail, email, images, and more. The need for knowledge about this area is increasing. O’Reilly’s iPhone Forensics Developer Workshop will supply you with this information.

These are two day workshops from O’Reilly aimed at security professionals.

November 12-13, 2008, Washington, DC
December 3-4, 2008, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX

That bowtie-wearing, tuba-playing, onetime vice presidential candidate on the National Radical Meadow Party ticket, Opus, is headed for the great comic strip in the sky. Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed announced he is giving up his Sunday comic strip Opus to focus on children’s books.

Reframe It creates transparency engine for the Internet. It allows mass public discussion by permitting thousands of comments to be placed next to any Web pages. These comments are placed directly next to the words, sentences, paragraphs or images to which they refer.

AccuWeather.com has launched new weather applications designed especially for users of Twitter and Tumblr social networking and micro-blogging services.

Here’s an opportunity for those of you in or around beautiful Alberta, Canada. Our own David Gewirtz will be on the air on EZ Rock 104.9FM in Edmonton somewhere in the 7am-8am hour (Edmonton time) Thursday morning (today).

He’ll be discussing strategies he first developed for his book, The Flexible Enterprise, that can help listeners stay sane and successful despite the wacky economic upheavals worldwide. We’re told you can also listen live this morning.

Hang in there, everyone one. David says things are a bit messed up, but we’re not doomed!

Vodafone Group announce the launch of the BlackBerry Storm smartphone from Research In Motion. The BlackBerry Storm will be available exclusively on Vodafone’s high speed 3G mobile broadband network in Europe, India , Australia and New Zealand beginning next month. The BlackBerry Storm will be available exclusively from Verizon Wireless in the US.

The Sitemasher Website Design Contest, which runs through March 1, 2009, is a professional development opportunity for those looking to prove themselves in the fast evolving design market. The contest is open to professionals and students.