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- Way too jaded
Last Friday I went to a stormy Brighton for dConstruct, a conference on “Designing the social web”. I had a great day, one that reminded me how little I’ve socialised over the past couple of years. The conference was well organised and very simple — a single track of talks and plenty of time for mingling and chatting. But I did feel underwhelmed by the talks, a feeling I remember from previous times I’ve been to web conferences.
In Misc on 9 September 2008. 4 comments. Permalink
- Links for Tuesday 9 September 2008
- Stefan Glerum
- I'm liking this chap's black and white illustrations so far. Dark and humorous. (via Drawn)
- Daytum
- Lets you keep track of any kind of daily data you like and graph it. Brilliant. I don't often think "I wish I'd thought of that" but… (via Kottke)
- Futurelab - Innovation in education
- "Transforming the way people learn through innovative technology and practice." Interesting looking place, based in Bristol.
- Pillow Speaker With Volume Control: Electronics & Photo: Amazon.co.uk
- Years ago I tried a Laurie Anderson sculpture that pretty much did just this and it was lovely. Hmm… (via Haddock)
- Illustration Friday
- A different topic every week for you to create an illustration about. Lovely idea. Why are there so few hours in the day and days in the week? I want to do everything. (via Haddock)
- Rule Forty Two - » Welcome to the Future
- Scroll some way through for evaluations of how futurists' predictions turned out. (Although the futurists I know never called them "predictions" because we know they're never 100% correct.) (via Boing Boing)
- Superstruct! Play the game, invent the future. | The Institute For The Future
- "The world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game." Interesting. There's either a lot more futures stuff around at the moment, or I'm just stumbling across more of it. (via Wonderland)
- Conferences and Corridors - Vox
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- Conferences and Corridors - Vox
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Although the idea of a conference with no talks appeals I think it would need some kind of structure… something other than the standing/sitting around chatting. But I don't know what that would be that wouldn't be just as annoying as some talks.
A comment posted on another site on 9 September 2008. Permalink
While few of dConstruct's talks thrilled me, the conference is pretty good for the socialising aspect — more so than Interesting (whose talks are much more up my street). Aside from lunchtime and the pre/post parties (which I didn't attend) there were at least 45 minute breaks between talks when everyone mingled. Nice to have time set aside solely for chatting.