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XOXO!

I spent last weekend at the XOXO festival in Portland, Oregon. I've been close friends with Andy Baio, one of the organizers for about a decade and he's talked about doing a conference for the past couple years so it was pretty amazing to see those

My Webstock Talk: Lessons from a 40 year old (now with transcript)

Here's my talk from Webstock last month (a conference I loved): [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/38463833 w=500&h=281] I will say humbly that it's a good talk on important subjects I've been thinking about for the past several years, but

Webstock: best conference ever

Conferences come and go, they ebb and flow. Sometimes they fade away while other times they grow until quality suffers. Webstock this year was phenomenal, matching reviews I've heard in years past. Where typical conferences have most speakers giving a 6 out of 10 talk with the occasional

SXSW 2011

Clay Shirky, with sponsors It's hard to believe I started going to SXSW eleven years ago, but for my ninth trip to Austin, I decided to do it up like an adult with a family and kids and only stay a few days instead of doing a 6-7

My SXSW 2011 talk on lessons from 11 years of community

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/21043675 w=500&h=281] Lessons from 11 years of community (my SXSW 2011 talk) from Matt Haughey on Vimeo. This past Saturday, I gave a talk at SXSW Interactive on some lessons in moderation and growing a community that was sparsely attended (I

This is why I hate Las Vegas

I saw this talk live a couple years ago, and it perfectly communicates everything I hate about Las Vegas and why I think it's one of the worst places on earth, designed to bankrupt people, enable addicts, and generally just be a horrible place for humans to be.

Khan Academy

My favorite project and talk from GEL 2010 was this one by Sal Khan. His amazing Khan Academy is what happens when you sit down and simply share comprehensive knowledge on every subject imaginable and make it freely accessible to as many people as possible. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?

GEL 2010 Conference trip to Dead Horse Bay

The highlight of the GEL Conference was an amazing trip to Dead Horse Bay, which is on the outskirts of Brooklyn towards JFK airport. You can read about the place on wikipedia and here's a google map of the place. Anthropologists Robin Nagle (her 2009 GEL talk was

SXSWi 2010 recap

Now that I've slept it off and a couple days have passed, I feel like I can start processing the past week in Austin Texas for the South By Southwest Interactive Conference. Some quick bits follow. Huge Crowds I'd heard this would be the biggest SXSWi

MaxFunCon

Teddy Bears Have Their Picnic, originally uploaded by mathowie. It's pretty hard to summarize or even relate how MaxFunCon went last weekend, so maybe I'll start with some history. Nearly a year ago, Jesse Thorn emailed me to say he was seriously considering throwing a comedy/

Etech 2009 wrapup

I haven't been going to tech conferences too much in the past couple years so I decided on a whim this year to attend the Emerging Technology 2009 conference (I think I last attended in 2007). I've been to many of the previous iterations of Etech,

Bizjam Seattle

I'm going to be speaking at Bizjam Seattle this Wednesday afternoon about my high road approach to blogging (eschewing SEO snake oil and not being an annoying person on every social network). Judging by the titles, I suspect half the talks will be preaching the opposite of what

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

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

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

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #666; } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 10px; margin-top: 0px;color:#999; } 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

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