One of my favourite presentations at Webstock this year was from Matt Jones. Happily, he’s posted his slides on slideshare.net. Not quite the same without his animated presentation, but still good. Look out for the tweeting pot plant. The Demon-Haunted World View more documents from Matt Jones. (tags: sensors archigram)
Monday, February 23, 2009
Here are some notes from a workshop I participated in at Webstock about managing and sustaining communities online. It was led by Heather Champ, community manager for Flickr, and Derek Powazek, founder of Fray and more recently MagCloud, a web-to-print publishing site I've been meaning to link to for a while (but that's for another post).
Friday, February 20, 2009
I'm at Webstock and I'm sitting across the table from a guy who built the BBC's iPlayer and customisable homepage, next to the manager of NZ On Screen and listening to US journalist and blogger Annalee Newitz talk about how science fiction gives us vocabulary and a frame of reference for emerging technologies.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
The prospect of (some) journalists becoming community managers over time continues to appeal to and intrigue me. By that I mean journalists opening up the news gathering, reporting and analysis process to readers, allowing communities to develop around areas of interest - enabling people with expertise and views to contribute material for news stories on, say, how health is administered in the Waikato, or pest management in the Waitakere ranges. The journalist becomes a community manager as well as news gatherer and news writer. Building communities, however, doesn't necessarily come easy.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
I got back last night from a really productive week in Wellington meeting people and attending Webstock, a conference for web designers but universally relevant. A big thank-you to the organisers: the event was well-run, aside from highly patchy wi-fi, and turned out to be an engaging, useful and enjoyable couple of days.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
So much for plans to blog live from Webstock: wonky wifi meant I was offline most of the day - at a web conference, go figure. Better luck tomorrow. Webstock did a great job today. There was a lot on and I feel like I've been around the world in a day, or something equally exhausting (who knew sitting still and listening could be so tiring). Highlights for me were a look at Django, which seemed every bit as usable as I'd heard, plus a great session from Jason Santa Maria on design as narrative and being about storytelling.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Not only has the sun shone all day, but I've met more interesting people in the last 24 hours in Wellington than I have in the last couple of months (I should probably get out more). As if by magic, before I'd even found my hotel last night I'd run into (almost literally, with my wheelie bag) a guy who specialises in business processes and is a fan of EPC (Event Driven Process Chains - used for mapping processes and workflows).
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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