Archive for the ‘conferences’ Category

Open Web Vancouver

Friday, June 5th, 2009

I'm attending (and presenting at) Open Web Vancouver next week, celebrating (and problematizing) with many others the many affordances and limitations of open source and open formats in our digitally mediated world. My talk will likely be rather policy-wonkish, as a current concern of mine (and a crucial chapter in ...

Convergence 2009, as it happens

Monday, May 11th, 2009

9:32 AM: David Plouffe about to start... 9:38 AM - introductions, Sauder school of business. iPhoto/Flickr not working well... 9:40 - Plouffe on stage, obligatory Sarah Palin joke 9:42 - not just a winning campaign but a credible grassroots campaign - "social media embedded in our DNA" from the start 9:45 - challenges going ...

summer summer summer summer/it’s like a merry-go-round

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Perhaps it would be more appropriate for me to entitle this post with a reference to Cheap Trick's "Surrender" (given that Isabel has mysteriously begun singing "mummy's alright/and daddy's alright/and baby's alright/bla bla bla etc..." - where'd she get that? her new nanny? SFU childcare? hopefully no one's introducing her ...

Massive Technology Show (Vancouver, April 1) as it happens

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="6S/Capulet/Peer1 panelists"][/caption] torn btw liveblogging and tweeting. what is the appopriate or trendy thing to do for conferences/panels now? listening to Peer1/6S/Capulet panel right now.(11:08 AM) Richard Smith: throwing "business sheep". heh. why does the assumption that TV and radio are not interactive media prevail? let's not forget our media ...

Vancouver Digital Week, Cossette Convergence 09, and the Future of Mobile

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Vancouver Digital Week is coming up soon (May 11-14), and it's a must-attend for anyone in the New/Social/Mobile Media scenes in the Pacific Northwest. In fact, it's an international must-attend event (even GDC is part of it this year, so it's going to be huge in 2009!). So all you ...

Open Mobile

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

I'm presenting a keynote this Sunday for an event called Open Mobile, presented in part by Mobile Muse as part of New Forms Festival 2008. I'm co-presenting with Roland Tanglao and Jesse Scott (artist info here), who will be my visual accompanists. But hopefully their visuals will override and scramble ...

MUSE3 BCNET presentation

Monday, April 28th, 2008

I had the opportunity last week to present my ongoing research into user-centered technology design (which is what is evolving out of my ethnographic research in the lives of mobile handset users) as part of a panel all about Mobile Muse (where I'm the Program Manager, for those who aren't ...

MUSE3, public displays, NV08 & Fusion recap

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

I'm chin-deep in MUSE3 planning (excuse the outdated site at them thar preceding link - that's part of what I'm working on), gearing up for our Showcase Proposal Forum this Friday (check back on Friday morning with that link for the webcast), adjusting my Web 2 specs after all the ...

Northern Voice 2008 Day Two – accreted notes

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

13:30-14:10 Alan Levine. cogdogblog. voicethread. the internet is really big. Lost in Vancouver really hilar cinderella story told through PPT. http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools jumpcut=imovie in a web browser googlemaps api with Flickr, blabberize.com --------- 14:15-15:00 - Kris Krüg and Alex Waterhouse Hayward. "The Other Side of Two Dimensions" lots of pictures. thinking in 3D is what we do with digital photography and ...

Northern Voice 2008 – accreted notes

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Rough notes from today's conference... 13:30-14:00: An afternoon discussion with a Vancouver City Planner, a rep from mag.no.lia, some guy from Portland, and many others. the challenges for cities=adopting social media for public participation initiatives. how do people get something back? more than just "thanks for coming". stewardship is important. but how do ...