Okay, it’s 10.30 on Sunday morning and I’m sitting in the convention centre by the piles of Lego which, of course, has a website. To be honest I think I’d rather be building random things out of it right now but duty calls.
I think it’s 4.30pm in the UK now? So if you want me to do anything specific today do let me know in the comments or on Twitter. I do have a few things I’m intending to do today.
Panels:
Designing for Freedom at 2pm, mainly because Anil Dash is on the panel and I like his blog.
In attracting an increasingly diverse internet community, it’s important to plan for user modification. This panel will focus on a discussion on how to design products where heavy consideration is taken to provide users the freedom to build their own products and communication mediums. This panel features a set of individuals from drastically different parts of the org chart, but who all have the same goal - figuring out how to build product which get out of the way so that people can do their own thing.
“Diverse internet community” might be applicable to getting Birmingham online. Or not. We’ll see.
Blogs, Buzz and Buddy Lists at 3.30pm looks relavent to me for the “valuable landscape for artists” bit, since that’s my target market back home.
Use the Internet before the Internet uses you. Thanks to blogs, web-video, and social networking sites, the online universe is a valuable (but no less intimidating) landscape for artists. How do you get the best out of blogs and other sites, to maximize your potential for an audience. Or, how do you get yourself introduced to the booming industry of online journalism and video sharing? These experts will dig deep into these ever-changing trends.
LOLWUT? Why Do I Keep Coming Back to This Website? at 5pm because I just has to go to a lolcat panel!
I Can Has Cheezburger? continues to eat a way your lunch hour, anthropomorphize your animals, and mock your friends. Despite a shitty design, $0 spent on market, and an impossible-to-spell URL, ICHC continues its amazing growth (thank you!). But growing quickly can kill you. Surviving DDoS, Trolls, copyright laws, server bills, and a huge serving of WTMF left us with many battle scars. We’ll provide you with a lens into our past so that you can learn from our mistakes. We’ll help you survive yours. Our internet battle scars, let us show you them.
Of course the main reason for doing panels is the hangover. While I might not have had quite the rock and motherfucking roll night that Jo did we did get back late and the novelty of Newcastle Brown Ale on tap was too hard to avoid. But while it was great I don’t think I’ve been meeting quite the right people. Good people, for sure, but no-one who can really help me flash out and expand my thoughts and ideas about blogging. “Interactive” is a broad church and there are a lot of developers and the like here. I really should go check out The Bloghaus (room 7, level 3) and see if my pipple are there.
So, in summary, I’m looking for bloggers like me to talk to. If you think you might be a blogger like me, interested in the theory behind it all and the social enabling stuff, do get in touch.
“the novelty of Newcastle Brown Ale on tap”
I’d heard about this actually happening in America. It sounds amazing to me. If you ever get past the inevitable 381,789 things you have to blog about then more precise thoughts about this would be appreciated by me. No pressure though.
So glad you’re going to the lolcat panel!
@Russ
It’s sort of strange. So much of the joy of Newky Brown comes from the bottle itself from, I think, the way the beer is bottle fermented (presumably) to the actual way of drinking. Drinking it from a pint glass makes it kinda ordinary. It’s still lovely and that but I didn’t feel like I was drinking anything special, compared, say, to drinking Guinness in Dublin.
So: nice, but nothing really to report.
Intriguing.
I think know what you mean, though. I do feel it loses something if you follow the back-label instructions of half-filling a pint glass from your bottle and topping it up.
The idea of Newkie on tap is still a wonder to me, though.