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Monday, March 17, 2008
SXSWi podcasts and the wisdom of twittering crowds
SXSW Mark Zuckerberg Keynote - Dancing Erupts, originally uploaded by b_d_solis. (CC) Brian Solis, www.briansolis.com, bub.blicio.us. 
SXSW Mark Zuckerberg Keynote - Dancing Erupts, originally uploaded by b_d_solis. (CC) Brian Solis, www.briansolis.com, bub.blicio.us.
Good to see the South by Southwest interactive audio trickling through online. As jealous as I am of everyone from the Midlands who went over (and I am very jealous!), I often think that a conference packed with the likes of these above is the last place on earth I'd want to spend time. Listening to the keynote interview with Mark Zuckerberg they're interrupting, it seems a perfectly reasonable and relatively interesting interview from an interviewer who clearly knows her subject very well.
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Sunday, February 03, 2008
Brighton Foam and dConstruct 2007 podcast
dConstruct 2007 in Brighton last September was a great conference. The recordings of the talks have come out in dribs and drabs but they're now all available to download from their website.
While on their website, use the timeline navigation at the top of the page to see how the pre-conference website developed over the course of a few months.
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Friday, July 13, 2007
TalkCrunch meets HotOrNot
TalkCrunch is an irregular series of interviews from Mike Arrington of TechCrunch. The latest interview is with James Hong, co-founder of HotOrNot, which I haven't heard anyone mention in five years.
It's a great interview, covering the start of the website (they sent an email to 40 friends and had 40000 hits by the end of the first day), monetising the site through subscription, moving on to free subscription and supported by advertising, dubious claims of 10 weddings a day caused through the site, their early use of virtual products (selling virtual flowers three years ago) and their new HotList product.
TalkCrunch is an irregular series of interviews from Mike Arrington of TechCrunch. The latest interview is with James Hong, co-founder of HotOrNot, which I haven't heard anyone mention in five years.
It's a great interview, covering the start of the website (they sent an email to 40 friends and had 40000 hits by the end of the first day), monetising the site through subscription, moving on to free subscription and supported by advertising, dubious claims of 10 weddings a day caused through the site, their early use of virtual products (selling virtual flowers three years ago) and their new HotList product.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Sudden Oak Death with Joe Clark
I listened to the first talk from the @media 2007 podcast yesterday, Joe Clark's talk, 'When accessibility is not your problem'.
Joe starts off with a lengthy preamble about WCAG Samurai. Spurred by a controversial article he wrote last year, To Hell with WCAG 2, Joe decided to stop waiting for the WCAG 2 guidelines to be finalised and, together with a few chosen contemporaries, return to making the best of WCAG 1. WCAG Samurai is the result of this project.
The delay in the production of the WCAG 2 guidelines is well documented, WCAG 1 was published in 1999! Another talk I listened to in the last week gave a good job of explaining the current(ish) situation from the working group perspective, Accessibility Wars: A report from the trenches.
The main part of Joe's @media talk looked at four areas in which he felt web content producers are currently wrongly assuming responsibility for accessibility.
All four have come up in recent work I've been involved with, they are:
I listened to the first talk from the @media 2007 podcast yesterday, Joe Clark's talk, 'When accessibility is not your problem'.
Joe starts off with a lengthy preamble about WCAG Samurai. Spurred by a controversial article he wrote last year, To Hell with WCAG 2, Joe decided to stop waiting for the WCAG 2 guidelines to be finalised and, together with a few chosen contemporaries, return to making the best of WCAG 1. WCAG Samurai is the result of this project.
The delay in the production of the WCAG 2 guidelines is well documented, WCAG 1 was published in 1999! Another talk I listened to in the last week gave a good job of explaining the current(ish) situation from the working group perspective, Accessibility Wars: A report from the trenches.
The main part of Joe's @media talk looked at four areas in which he felt web content producers are currently wrongly assuming responsibility for accessibility.
All four have come up in recent work I've been involved with, they are:
- font resizing - he sees this as a browser issue. Fair enough if you're only worried about accessibility compliance but if you're concerned with usability you can't just pass responsibility on to browser designers and users
- headings and links out of context - he says that headings and links shouldn't have to make sense if a tool takes them out of context
- abbreviations - language is a lot more complex than HTML can ever allow for. Loads of great examples
- cognitive disabilities - Joe stresses the fact that the clearest and simplest language should be used appropriate for a site's content. I would add that different language can be appropriate for different sections of the same site.
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Thursday, July 05, 2007
@media 2007 London podcast
@media 2007 was held in London last month. Recordings of the talks from Day One are now on their website. As I've mentioned before, it's becoming standard for web conferences to post their recordings free online, a fantastic resource. The @media podcast is also improved by including pdfs of the slides used by the lecturers.
Talks and topics: (I haven't included links as the summary pages don't include links to the mp3s. all mp3s available through the link above)
@media 2007 was held in London last month. Recordings of the talks from Day One are now on their website. As I've mentioned before, it's becoming standard for web conferences to post their recordings free online, a fantastic resource. The @media podcast is also improved by including pdfs of the slides used by the lecturers.
Talks and topics: (I haven't included links as the summary pages don't include links to the mp3s. all mp3s available through the link above)
- Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path on 'Beyond Ajax'
- Molly Holzschlag on 'Solving the browser problem once and for all'
- Jason Santa Maria on 'Diabolical design: the devil is in the detail'
- Nate Koechley on 'High performance web pages'
- Dan Cederholm on 'Interface Juggling'
- Richard Ishida on 'Designing for international users'
- Mark Boulton on '5 simple steps to better typography'
- Tantek Celik on 'Microformats'
- Joe Clark on 'When web accessibility is not your problem'
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Monday, April 30, 2007
future of web design london 2007 podcasts
Carson Systems have put the recordings of their recent Future of Web Design London 2007 conference online to download. There are 18 talks to download (most of them with their presentations as well), including talks from head designers at Flickr, Moo, WordPress, 37 Signals and Adaptive Path.
Similarly, the talks from their Future of Web Apps London 2007 conference are also available, including speakers from Adobe, BT, Last.FM, Yahoo and Google.
Carson Systems have put the recordings of their recent Future of Web Design London 2007 conference online to download. There are 18 talks to download (most of them with their presentations as well), including talks from head designers at Flickr, Moo, WordPress, 37 Signals and Adaptive Path.Similarly, the talks from their Future of Web Apps London 2007 conference are also available, including speakers from Adobe, BT, Last.FM, Yahoo and Google.
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
More SXSW2006 downloads
More SXSW audio downloads released, including Cluetrain seven years later, Design Eye for the List Guy, Designing for the community with zero advertising, Content distribution on the Mobile Web, Wild Web Wrestling, How to roll your own web conference, Design and Social Responsibility, DIY now more than ever.
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