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GEL recap

Last week, I attended my third GEL conference in New York City. Like previous versions of this conference, it’s a day of talks from speakers that have a variety of stories to tell about “good experiences.” The diversity of the speakers’ backgrounds is the strength of the conference and this year didn’t disappoint. In […]


National Writers Workshop in Wichita

I’m in Kansas for the National Writers Workshop put on by the Poynter people. They asked me last summer if I wanted to come talk about online stuff and I said yes, but to give you an idea of how much of a lightweight I am at this conference, I bumped into another speaker on […]


WebVisions 2007

WebVisions starts tomorrow and I’ve enjoyed the last four of them, so I’ll be around tomorrow and Friday.
I figure I’ll just go to any talk involving Lane Becker and that’s half my schedule booked.


SXSW 2007 recap

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The big room, originally uploaded by mathowie.
- SXSW was huge this year. Word on the street was 5,500 interactive attendees filled the halls. Due to this, a lot of the big public parties were full […]


Diverse means a lot of things

In the course of two posts, Anil completely nails the problem of gender (and other) biases in the web industry. When I think back to the most interesting talks over the past 3-4 years, it was always from someone outside the norm, something that could bring a fresh perspective instead of the same tired “here’s […]