I left the house at 0600 on Thursday and about eighteen hours later arrived in Austin. I flew with Delta Airlines and I was fairly impressed with the hospitality. I guess I'm far too used to travelling with EasyJet on the cheap! When I got to Atlanta I…
Yesterday I went to the Carson Web Apps Summit [http://carsonworkshops.com/summit/] at the Kensington Conference Centre in London. As before at d.Construct there was a collaborative note-taking session [https://muffinresearch.co.uk/lab/summit/06/] using subEthaEdit [http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/]. Once again Steve Marshall [http:…
@media2006 [http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2006/] has been announced together with a rather tasty new website [http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2006/] with all the details. I was at @media2005 last year and I found it to be a really inspiring event. This year (provided I get my act together in…
Last night I attended my first "Geek Dinner" in London. When I arrived at the Hogshead in Dering street I got myself a pint of the black stuff and shortly after the guest of honour Molly Holzschlag [http://www.molly.com] and Andy Clarke [http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.…
I got down to Brighton bright and early for d.Construct Clear:left's grassroots web 2.0 conference. After being ushered in by Richard Rutter through the side door along with a couple of other early birds I sat down and booted up my powerbook to check my…
I'll be driving down to the d.Construct [http://www.clearleft.com/services/training/dconstruct.php] conference in Brighton early tomorrow morning. I'm looking forward to seeing Stuart Langridge, Simon Willison and Cory Doctorow's presentations in particular. This whole conference is about Web 2.…
Registrations for d.Construct [http://www.clearleft.com/services/training/dconstruct.php] "a grass-roots Web 2.0 conference" are being taken now Sold out. Such luminaries as Andy Budd [http://www.andybudd.com], Simon Willison [http://simon.incutio.com/] and Stuart Langridge [http://www.kryogenix.org/] will be…
Day two was looking to be exactly what I was looking for from the whole experience of @Media2005. Doug Bowman [http://www.stopdesign.com] kicked off with an in-depth presentation discussing the re-design of Blogger, from the processes to actual techniques used. There was a particularly great example of using…