10:00AM Get Unstuck: Moving From 1.0 to 2.0
Moderator: Liz Danzico Director, experience strategy, Daylife
Liz Danzico Director, experience strategy, Daylife
Kristian Bengtsson Creative Dir, FutureLab
Chris Messina Co-founder, Citizen Agency
Luke Wroblewski Principal Designer, Yahoo!
Jeffrey Zeldman Founder, Happy Cog
Some of these overlap, so I’ll have to pick one over the other. But a rough idea.
10:00AM Get Unstuck: Moving From 1.0 to 2.0 (18ABCD)
11:30AM The Future of the Online Magazine (19AB)
02:00PM The Growth and Evolution of Microformats (18ABCD)
03:30PM Bullet Tooth Web Design: Plan Your Web Site like Pulling off a Robbery (19AB)
04:05PM Design Patterns: Defining and Sharing Web Interface Design Languages (19AB)
04:05PM The Invisible Blogosphere (8ABC)
05:00PM Do You Blog on the First Date? (10AB)
05:00PM How to Create A Kickass In-House Design Team (18ABCD)
10:00AM Web Typography Sucks (18ABCD)
11:30AM Design Aesthetic of the Indie Developer (Ballroom F)
02:00PM Will Wright Keynote Speech (Hilton / Grand Ballroom)
03:30PM How to Make Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Usability Work Together (19AB)
03:30PM The Technologist Agenda: Political Activism for Geeks (9AB)
Oh, and while surfing YouTube looking at other’s SXSW videos, I found a video of me shot yesterday by the firefox browser people, giving testimonial on the browser from the trade show space. I got a discount on a Firefox T-shirt in exchange. Which just goes to show — I can talk your damn ear off, but if you stick a camera in my face, I have no idea what to say.
I took this video at the frog design party Saturday night of an interesting interactive design project they did.
Stephanie’s dad called her today to tell her that he won a free trip to Europe from some contest on PBS – one that he apparently entered with the intention of giving to us if he won. So I guess we’re going to Europe? Wow. She going to find out some more details.
After reading Khoi Vinh’s thoughts on streamlining web apps to remove features that only a few users need, I think for the most part the choice to make apps work for everyone is a good one. But I have a particular issue with at least one of his examples – 37 Signals, who make Basecamp and Backpack. They have a less is more philosophy that works well – most of the time.
I was using Backpack with the Indyscribe author team to collaborate on some of our articles, and on documenting some of the information we need to run the site. I also used it to collaborate with my girlfriend on household management stuff. There are RSS feeds in Backpack, and I imported them into my feed reader to keep track of when my co-authors or girlfriend added or updated information. The problem for me was that the feeds are attached to your identity in Backpack, not to particular documents. That meant that when I updated my to do lists, which I also kept on Backpack, I’d get 14 unwanted messages a day in my feed reader, along with the 1 message I needed. I stopped checking that feed all the time, convinced it was my own changes coming through, and I’d miss the time-sensitive collaborative doc I was waiting for.
So last year when we went to the 37 Signals Conference, I mentioned this to the guys, and they gave me the standard brush-off that they give to people when they don’t plan to implement a feature. Which is fine – it’s their business to run, not mine. But a few months later, when Google Docs came out, I immediately tested how the feeds worked, and they were exactly what I wanted – messages about updates on only the documents I want to keep track of. I moved all my documents out of Backpack to Google, and I haven’t been back since.
I realize that’s a pretty specific use, but I don’t know that adding doc specific feeds, in addition to a feed attached to user id, would add a level of complexity that would be confusing – it’s a feature that could be pretty unobtrusive.
4:05p.m. – Fictional Blogging Panel
Liz Henry, Developer Advocate – Socialtext
Odin Soli, Dir Business Dev – Aveso Inc
Rough Panel Notes:
Very interesting panel on fictional blogging as an art form, and the ethics of it. Again, my rough, not cleaned up notes because I don’t have time.
Fictional blogging: art form vs. lying/hoaxes?
it raises issues of truth, openness, secrecy
fictional blogging is not just putting a chapter of your book online. Can be:
blogging as your novels main character
role-playing – collaborative fiction
creative ecospheres
blogging memoir – lightly fictional
obvious lies – shakespeare’s blog
identity experiments
j.t. leroy
infiltration and depth
harry potter fanfic – sock puppets
lonelygirl 15
ben franklin’s prudence goodwife
Plain Layne – fictional, bisexual internet chick
– written by panel moderator Odin Soli
transgression of truth, honesty generates a huge reaction
Fiction used as Marketing
example – psp2 blog – fake teenager
publishers might want to use to promote a book as an extension
fan fiction – the science of play, mmorpgs are collaborative fiction
Ethics – violation of the social contract
Consensuality – warning people of the content before they read
authenticity violations – replacing the voices of someone who actually is that type of person
fictional characters should establish deep online presence
There is not a currently a financial market for long-form fiction online. Need more monetizational models.
Do we want to make fiction online illegal? No – we shouldn’t. But people should do it with messiness and thickness – keep it consensual, create deep worlds.
Lost and other hollywood media establishing fictional sites & creative play.
Allows people to explore ideas – what would harry potter say to genghis kahn and caroline ingalls?
11:30a.m. – Making Your Short Attention-Span Pay Big Dividends
Jim Coudal – Coudal Partners
Brendan Dawes – Magnetic North
awesome panel – my favorite so far, and the one that I’m going to do a presentation on for work. Dawes is a New Riders author, which is one of our publishing entities at work.
Rough Notes:
Jim Coudal
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not letting things you don’t get to be considered a failure – you learn, and get a chance to dream about something.
enjoy exploring new ideas and trying things because you can – fail many times to succeed.
Saul Bass, editing Hitchcock’s Psycho
start out building A, but end up building B or C or g – which is good because it’s much easier to steer a moving ship. Examples from Coudal projects –
Follow whims to logical or illogical conlusion – better than forcing revisions on ideas that are ill conceived to begin with.
How to implement this type of dreaming –
Paint all the walls in your bathroom wiht chalkboard paint.
the book – holding place for ideas that we’ll probably never do.
anecdote about father writing things down on scraps of paper he would always use. I’m writing it down to remember it now – not later.
Brendan Dawes:
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Dividends are not always about money – some are about reputation, PR, identity.
His website about saul bass. – letting domain name expire by accident – get the stuff out there, even if it’s not finished. Make it work for you – even if it’s half-ass. Making stuff happen.
Also about constraints – help you to focus your ideas. Not about the medium, it’s about the creative output of that – basic programming to alter a window display of a story didn’t like.
Hitchcock – frame every second- small pixels, lined up and compared. Easy short project that only took half an hour – but got lots of attention.
brendandawes.com – McGoogle – interface for google with the skin of Mcdonalds.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things whih escape those who dream only by night. – edgar allan Poe
Moderator: Christian Crumlish Pattern Detective, Yahoo!
Christian Crumlish Pattern Detective, Yahoo!
Kaliya Hamlin Super Hero, Identity Woman
Mary Hodder CEO, Dabble
George Kelly Contra Costa Newspapers
Ted Nadeau Founder, Dot Line Inc
No real notes – too busy listening to take them.
Look up internet identity workshop may 14-16, 2007
openid
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