I’m heading to San Francisco tomorrow to spend an extra long weekend with a good friend, check out his new office at Apple, and attend WordCamp which is a two day conference to WordPress users and developers. I’m most likely only going to attend the developer day as many of the topics on the other…
Tonight is DemoCamp at WorkSpace in Gastown. This is the second DemoCamp this year and my first one so hopefully they’ll be gentle. Doesn’t look like they are fully booked so if you’re around, come by and check it out…there will be a gong! UPDATE: just got back from DemoCamp….it was pretty fun, albeit hot…
Signups have started for the 2007 installment of BarCamp Vancouver on August 17th/18th. I’ve never been to a BarCamp before and I missed it here last year. I also never got to it when I was in Austin for SXSW the past couple of years either so I don’t want to miss this chance. I’m…
Dan Saffer (who gave a great presentation at SXSW about Learning Interaction Design from Las Vegas) posted a few links to some great videos from the TED conference. I especially liked this video of Malcolm Gladwell speaking about things we can learn from spaghetti sauce or as Dan put it, “why you shouldn’t design for…
Robert Scoble has posted his video of the Digital Photography session Kris Krug put on at Northern Voice that I attended last February. This is the session that helped reignite my interest in photography after being away from it for awhile. Since that time I’ve posted over 2200 photos to my Flickr account. I can’t…
Finally tracked down a photo taken of us all at SXSW which turned out pretty good: via Flickr
Now that SXSW is over and I’m back home, I’ve had a chance to ‘digest’ the conference and thought I’d post some of my thoughts. This was my second SXSW and I learned a few things from last year: book your hotel early: last year I was a 1/2 hour cab ride away. This year,…
SXSW 2007 is over and I’m back home now…I already miss the Texas BBQ. This year exceeded my expectations and was bigger and better than last year. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to make it a hat trick next year. There were apparently something in the neighbourhood of 6000 geeks in attendance. I wonder how…
Finally all settled in Austin for SXSW which starts later today. Very happy with the hotel I’m staying at this time which is basically in the shadow of the conference centre (which I can see from my room). Last year, due to booking the trip late, we ended up at a hotel out on the…