Thursday, September 17, 2009
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing will be September 30 – October 3, 2209. Registration closes on September 25. Here’s what it’s about: The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Presenters are [...]
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Animators, motion graphics artists, title designers, visual effects artists, broadcast designers: Motion Conference 09 is for you. This year’s event is October 11 – 14 in Albuquerque, NM. The speaker’s list this year includes Chris & Trish Meyer, Mark Coleran, Mike Goedecke, Jamie Caliri, and more rock star names from the field. Here’s a look [...]
I have more photos of BlogHer09 on Flickr, but thought you might enjoy seeing the faces in a slideshow here. Sorry about the ad–I’m too cheap to pay for the ad-free version at Smilebox. There’s no music on this one, so you can peek at work. Make a Smilebox slideshow
Something significant for web education is happening in Chattanooga from August 5-8. The event is dubbed the Web Education Rocks Summit. The event is a meeting of the newly formed Open Web Education Alliance. Members are meeting to create a structure for OWEA that will aid companies, schools, and organizations involved in shaping the education [...]
In apophenia: I want my cyborg life blogger zephoria (aka Danah Boyd) talks about a culture gap she experienced using the backchannel at a recent conference. One of the conference speakers pointed her out as “not paying attention” because she was using the backchannel. My frustration at the anti-computer attitude goes beyond the generational gap [...]
Centering Images with CSS is a quick and easy tutorial. The Webstock recordings are online. These are the February 2009 event in Wellington, but older Webstock material is still available, too. Excellent speakers and topics. How to Conduct Live Polls Via Twitter and SMS is a great tip for speakers and teachers. It explains how [...]
I discovered something fascinating about people. They love to tell you what tech gadgets they consider essential to haul along when traveling. Especially when going to a convention. I got interested in this because I recently decided to quit taking my computer to every panel and session I attend at a convention and make it [...]
Participating in the second annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit was easy and fascinating. I signed in to three sessions. These will mostly be available as poscasts at the Women Who Tech site, so I’m not going to attempt liveblogging. I’ll give you a few highlights that I found particularly worthy or fascinating or just plain [...]
Women Who Tech is a telesummit. In its second year (the first year was a big hit), the telesummit uses the Internet and plain old phone conferencing to pull together a diverse group of women in a format that allows them to talk tech. More . . .
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
InterAct, CSS3, and ETech. More . . .