Archive for October, 2006

After encour­age­ment from Lisa, Max­ine, James and a few oth­ers at WE05 (and check­ing my fin­ances) I have decided to attend SXSWi. See­ing I will be fly­ing halfway round the world, I might as well have a hol­i­day. My inten­tion is to either arrive a couple of weeks early or leave a couple of […]

After read­ing some pos­it­ive com­ments on the site­point forum about this site, I star­ted com­pos­ing an update on the fluid elastic concept and were I am it with it. I real­ised it should be pos­ted here as well as the forum, even if does duplic­ate some of my earlier comments.

Robert Nyman has pub­lished People who visit this web site (some stat­ist­ics) on his blog, so I thought I would do a quick com­par­ison with mine. In the­ory we write for the same audi­ence, so here are my stats for the past nine months.

The under­signed are car­ry­ing out a blog­ging sur­vey. I will be inter­ested in the res­ults, so I thought I bet­ter contribute.

When did you start blogging?…

At the most recent port80 meet, Myles talked about the lack of cut­ting edge present­a­tions at WD06 and that while AJAX, APIs and micro­formats present­a­tions where good, he was already using them on a reg­u­lar basis and was hop­ing for some­thing new and exciting.

Which got think­ing about what I got from WD06 and was it bet­ter to gain know­ledge or be inspired about a subject …

Two days of WD06 work­shops, two days of WD06 proper, two days of OZIA con­fer­ence and seven nights of drink­ing social net­work­ing. What can I say that has not be blogged about by oth­ers, so here are the per­sonal high­lights in rough chro­no­lo­gical order.

One of the inter­est­ing facets of WD06 was Web Con­nec­tions. A social net­work­ing tool pro­duced by Tim Lucas and Cameron Adams to allow attendees to contect up and tag each other. I ended up in the most pop­u­lar list, mainly because with 15 mem­bers of the Perth Port80 posse at WD06, we all had a big num­ber of estab­lished connections.

Even without wifi access for the work­shop days, I attemp­ted to con­nect to the people I met. This earned me a web con­nec­tion whore stick­ers from Andrew K. and Ben Buchan, but con­nect­ing paid dividends…