2012-02-08 10:00:31 // Idealog
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An all-star lineup of speakers – including top brass from Google, Facebook, Pepsico, and Saatchi & Saatchi – has been confirmed at the 2012 Entrepreneursʼ Organisation Queenstown University conference from February 22-26.
2012-02-03 13:30:17 // Siobhan Leathley
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Jason Whiteley has an enviable background, having worked with architects Herzog & de Meurons after five years in Switzerland and New York City.
2012-02-03 13:21:48 // Design Daily Team
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From the organisers of the mighty New Zealand International Film Festival comes the World Cinema Showcase, featuring films selected by NZIFF programmers that for whatever reason were not eligible for NZIFF screening. For the design-minded, there are screeds to get your teeth into.
2012-01-27 15:00:52 // Design Daily Team
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Nowhere captures the pace of global market change quite like China, where consumers and their expectations are a case study in rapid cultural shifts and their effect on design and brand communications.
2012-01-25 16:20:09 // Siobhan Leathley
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The first Designers Speak event of the year is fast coming up and the guest of honour at Calligraffiti will be Amsterdam's Niels Shoe Meulman.
2012-01-20 13:57:02 // Siobhan Leathley
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Six finalists are in the running to win $10,000 as part of BNZ’s Start-Up Alley, recognising new and innovative web ventures in New Zealand.
2012-01-19 09:34:01 // Sustain Team
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Want to help solve the climate crisis? Think you have the leadership skills to be one of the key leaders in climate change? Then read on.
2012-01-06 16:14:03 // Design Daily Team
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Who needs an excuse to throw a party? Nobody, really, but the Big Day Dowse has one in the form of celebrating Lower Hutt's new town square.
2011-12-20 12:01:57 // Idealog
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Not just the first country to see the sun, New Zealand will be the first to kick off the Global Game Jam too come January.
2011-12-15 09:08:34 // Idealog
Are you an event planner looking for someone with cash to throw your way? Then rejoice, for Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED) is calling for applications from parties looking for sponsorship of major events.
2011-12-07 09:54:16 // Idealog
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Here's another to add to the onslaught of pre-Christmas invites: the Media Mingle Xmas Party, December 13.
2011-12-02 09:50:06 // Idealog
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Prizewinning journalist Jon Stephenson is returning to Afghanistan before Christmas to tackle a number of stories, and a bunch of his friends want to give him a bit of support.
2011-12-02 09:41:42 // Esther Goh
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Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, chief science adviser to the Prime Minister, is a staunch champion of science as a pillar of economic development and innovation. And turning Auckland into a major Asia-Pacific innovation hub will be the topic du jour when he speaks in Auckland next week.
2011-11-22 12:00:36 // Sarah Robson
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Expect to see three-metre seagulls and a giant puppet family roving around Auckland central next month.
2011-11-10 12:48:33 // Esther Goh
Scientist, social entrepreneur and inventor Sir Ray Avery is an inspirational Kiwi if ever there was one – and you can catch him at a public lecture at Massey University’s Albany campus next month.
2011-11-09 13:29:54 // Esther Goh
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Translating Hergè's iconic panels onto the big screen was most definitely not a task for the faint of heart. And if you're curious to find out just what went into it, AnimFX will be presenting the ‘making-of’ ahead of the New Zealand release of The Adventures of Tintin in December.
2011-10-25 14:49:36 // Idealog
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With the Rugby World Cup done, dusted and firmly in our grip, it's time to turn to the other main event of the year – the national election.
2011-10-17 09:42:01 // Idealog
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Pixar. Weta Digital. Microsoft Studios. OpenFeint. Robot Entertainment. Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. What else could it be but AnimfxNZ 11?
2011-10-13 15:11:07 // Idealog
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Festival for the Future is the latest venture for Splashroom Media, the socially conscious Dunedin filmmakers.
2011-10-13 11:34:12 // Esther Goh
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Feeling lucky? Win free entry to Social Media Club Auckland on Tuesday, where clever clogs from SmallWorlds, Microsoft, Snapr and more will gather to discuss all things gamification.
2011-10-11 09:18:26 // Idealog
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Should you long for gold-plated wisdom in spades, MSN's Digital Marketing Summit next month promises to offer a fresh range of talking heads.
2011-09-29 12:09:25 // Idealog
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Keen to rub shoulders with some of New Zealand’s top innovators and to hear guest speaker Chris Liddell? Of course you do, and you'll get your chance at the New Zealand Innovators Awards cocktail event next month.
2011-09-27 15:38:20 // Idealog
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Next week is the last LATE at the Museum event for 2011, to be held at Auckland Museum. Vote on our poll to go in the draw to win and join in the fun.
2011-09-26 17:19:10 // Idealog
New Zealand needs a few lessons in competitiveness, if you put stock in the World Economic Forum's opinion, and November will see delegates from more than 40 countries descend on Auckland to build alliances, explore new models and envision what's next in economic development.
2011-09-22 09:35:16 // Idealog
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In Auckland on Monday? Got nothing to do? Why not head along to the NZ Technology Trade and Investment Forum being held at the Langham Hotel as part of the Rutherford Innovation Showcase. It's the first in a week of Auckland-based events, and with high-level representatives from government and the private sector speaking and attending, it's the place to be for startups, entrepreneurs, software developers and others in the tech world.
2011-09-12 09:31:49 // Idealog
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The world’s top international agricultural biotechnology conference is heading to New Zealand in 2012, putting the spotlight on environmental, social, and economic change under the umbrella theme ‘Adapting to a Changing World’.
2011-09-07 16:58:39 // Esther Goh
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The next Envisage programme from AUT's CoLab is bringing together people from leading companies in design and sport to discuss new developments and opportunities in sport and technology.
2011-09-01 11:28:35 // Idealog
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Be awed and inspired – for free – by business heavyweights from Google, Movac, Z Energy, VoucherMob and more.
2011-08-31 11:32:22 // Idealog
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Today's the last day to secure earlybird tickets for Taste of New Zealand, and we've got two general passes to give away. Get in quick
2011-08-26 17:06:55 // Esther Goh
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Wellington has won an international bid to host the 2012 Digital Earth Summit, which mayor Celia Wade-Brown says ties in perfectly with the city's bid to be recognised as a ‘creative digital capital’.
2011-08-01 08:30:16 // Idealog
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A trade show is hoping to capitalise on the hordes of visitors set to descend on New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup and showcase local food suppliers to international importers.
2011-06-30 10:00:00 // Esther Goh
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Survive & Thrive, an expo and series of workshops, is all about enabling creative types to tap into the business-minded part of their brains.
2011-06-17 11:39:25 // Esther Goh
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The fifth annual Barcamp is for developers, designers and anyone who cares about the future of the net
2011-02-17 18:17:00 // Natasha Turfrey
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Wellington tech entrepreneur Michael Koziarski shared his formula to happiness and productivity in the workplace at the Webstock conference in Wellington today.
2011-01-19 23:13:08 // Hadyn Green
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There’s nothing quite like Webstock.
Perhaps that’s because it runs counter
to everything the experts said a Kiwi web
conference should be. By Haydn Green
2010-12-01 10:35:17
// Idealog #30: now
While Pumpkin Patch
won Supreme Award
for International
Business at the New
Zealand International
Business Awards
2010, it wasn’t
the only Kiwi
company feted on
Oct 13. The awards
celebrate New
Zealand business
success worldwide
and recognise
professional
excellence and
innovative practice,
so here are the
winners in each of
the categories
2010-11-25 16:22:24 // Josie Stanford
// Idealog #30: now
John Boone’s new venture had to be explained to him—and now he explains ‘corporate drumming’ to us.
2010-09-17 10:22:33 // Martyn Pepperell
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Paint parties—imagine dumping litres of fluorescent paint on a rave—are selling out nationwide, thanks to the Facebook factor
2010-09-09 10:39:18 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #29: interact
Mark Pesce is a longtime Apple user and a dedicated futurist and technologist, so you’d think he’s seen it all. But the iPad, he reckons, is something altogether different.
2010-08-13 09:27:49 // Esther Goh
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CreativeTech, a forum devoted to all things Apple, is heading to Auckland next month—and we have a brilliant prize pack to give away including a one-day pass.
2010-07-12 10:03:39 // Sam Eichblatt
// Idealog #28: interact
Meet German designer Katrin Sonnleitner, soon to visit New Zealand for Semi-Permanent 2010.
2010-07-01 09:41:33 // Design Daily Team
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If you’re an Apple fan, there’s a brand-spanking new event you’ll definitely want to sink your teeth into. Introducing CreativeTech.
2010-06-30 10:33:44 // Design Daily Team
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You might have seen Haydn Green's blogs for us about the recent FullCodePress event - which he dubbed the 'geek Tri-Nations'. Now Jason Santa Maria, who participated in the event on the American side, has blogged about his experiences at the event.
2010-06-29 12:50:24 // Design Daily Team
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Running with Scissors Creative Strategist, and yMedia Challenge Judge, Friday O’Flaherty, shares his experience of working in the creative industries – tomorrow!
2010-06-29 12:26:59 // Design Daily Team
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The Designers Institute of New Zealand is holding the next of its Designers Speak series on July 7 at Ironbank, bringing in top names to discuss commercial design.
2010-06-22 21:14:21 // Sam Eichblatt
// Idealog #28: interact
Pixar senior animator Andrew Gordon is making his way down under for SP10 in August. We caught him in June to ask about the future of Andy, Buzz and Mr Incredible.
2010-06-21 16:00:00 // Design Daily Team
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A hefty 750 people celebrated the country’s best commercial buildings last night in Auckland at the annual Property Council New Zealand Rider Levett Bucknall Property Industry Awards, and three properties in particular set new standards for mixing design with sustainability.
2010-06-18 10:33:14 // Julie Starr
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FullCodePress is back this weekend—and this time a US team is here with some serious star power.
2010-02-19 17:26:39 // Ben Kepes
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It may be hard to believe, but we're only just at the very beginnings of the web revolution. In the first fifteen years (1994-2009), the human world of culture and civilization was sucked into the black hole of cyberspace. Now the real world is poised to follow.
2010-02-15 10:41:07 // James Hurman
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Many of the speakers at TED touch on their lack of education or conventional intelligence. But there's one thing they all have in common.
2010-02-15 08:31:52 // James Hurman
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Today we heard from Sergey Brin, Bill Gates, David Rockwell, Natalie Merchant, David Byrne and Chris Anderson (the Wired one, not the TED one), yet despite such an auspicious roster, the ‘wow’ moment today came from a humbler corner.
2010-02-12 16:03:54 // James Hurman
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My ‘wow’ moment of today was the discovery of an American barista who knows how to make a flat white. The ‘wow’ moment for everybody else was ex Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold.
2010-02-11 18:29:16 // James Hurman
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It’s bloody difficult to choose a standout from the 18 speakers and performers we experienced at the first day of TED’s 2010 event, themed ‘What the world needs now’. But here’s the biggest collective ‘wow’ and the quote of the day.
2009-12-11 09:58:45 // Mike Brown & Natasha Lampard
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Webstock 2010 is nearly upon us. Webstock’s senior VPs reflect on past glories—and those yet to come.
2009-11-20 11:42:50 // Stephen Jewell
// Idealog #24: features
When Bruce Ferguson took his big-splash events business to the UK, he arrived alongside a less welcome visitor: the recession. A year later, the recession is still there—but so is Ferguson, and he’s finding a ready audience for his outrageous stunts and extravaganzas. By Stephen Jewell.
2009-09-07 15:59:37 // Frances Chan
// Idealog #23: interact
Whatever your Big Idea is, pitch it to the Icehouse and you could win $15,000 worth of prizes, including three months in the Icehouse business incubator to develop your product and offer to investors.
2009-08-17 08:55:56 // Deirdre Robert
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Philip Hunt, aka ‘Studio AKA’, chats to us about bringing children’s books to life and the stiff competition he faces from his own daughter.
2009-08-17 08:50:01 // Deirdre Robert
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Pentagram’s Harry Pearce discusses his passion for mixing his creative work with human rights project Witness. Then there’s the conversation he had with Te Radar involving Spike Milligan and gravestones.
2009-08-17 08:45:00 // Deirdre Robert
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No one proposed to him when he was signing books—much to his disappointment. He had the audience and fellow speakers in awe, and it’s got nothing to do with his catchy name and youthful looks! We spoke with a modest James about his incredible body of work and why he’s, er, aging backwards.
2009-08-17 08:40:18 // Deirdre Robert
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He’s a bit of a legend in the design industry and on a surfboard. We talk with David Carson, a man who makes a living from his hobby
2009-08-17 08:35:01 // Deirdre Robert
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We can’t help but love Alexia Sinclair’s stunning work. We discussed childhood loves and her plans for world domination.
2009-08-16 22:29:27 // Deirdre Robert
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Paul Soong from The Church talks about the permanence of Semi-Permanent and why it’s important to nurture upcoming creative Kiwis
2009-08-16 21:48:52 // Deirdre Robert
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He likes to lie down but it’s a good thing he was upright when we spoke to him. Semi-Permanent MC Te Radar shares his unique analogies on creativity.
2009-08-15 20:35:28 // Deirdre Robert
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He’s very tall and filled to the brim with creative prowess. Weta Digital’s visual effects supervisor Matt Aitken tells us why Hollywood loves New Zealand
2009-08-15 20:34:56 // Deirdre Robert
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She feels like she’s drunk, but she’s not. We managed to snag some time with adrenalin-filled Semi-Permanent producer Anna Cameron and found out that even karaoke has its place at this event
2009-08-15 20:33:40 // Deirdre Robert
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While the rain was pouring outside, we spoke with some of the fine folk inside and soaked up some artistic spectacle
2009-08-15 08:49:26 // David MacGregor
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A slightly surreal experience with an advertising guy who acts like an artist … or should that be an artist who acts like an advertising guy?
2009-08-13 14:47:39 // Deirdre Robert
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Walking through the supermarket with wires running through your cheek and a camera in your mouth may sound odd to most, but for AUT Colab resident Matt Kenyon, it's all in a day's work. Seeking to challenge the 'powers that be' through the appropriation of popular culture, Kenyon not only challenges it, he throws it on its head and turns it inside out.
2009-07-27 09:00:00 // Deirdre Robert & Vincent Heeringa
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Todd Wackrow spent just 3 months at the Icehouse and now look, he's really tall. Idealog asks why.
2009-07-21 15:17:41 // Deirdre Robert & Vincent Heeringa
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James Madelin had an idea. Now it's a global business. Vincent Heeringa meets the man from Orbis.
2009-07-17 12:27:49 // Deirdre Robert & Vincent Heeringa
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The Icehouse Business Growth Centre is opening its doors to all tyre-kickers and wannabe billionaires at an Open Day on July 29. Idealog asks startup director Ken Erskine what it takes to become the next Sammy Morgan.
2009-07-03 08:44:52 // Matt Cooney
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Innovation isn’t just a commercial buzzword. It can transform our schools, hospitals, public spaces, transport, workplaces and our leisure time. And now New Zealand has its own organisation dedicated to encouraging new thinking to transform Kiwi society.
2009-07-01 08:57:45 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #22: interact
The inaugural Onya Awards will celebrate the achievements of our best-is-yet-to-come web luminaries.
2009-06-30 10:47:14 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #22: interact
Semi-Permanent must be due a name change. Back in 2009 for its sixth year, the landmark New Zealand design event is positively durable. It could also be called the granddaddy of a new wave of creative Kiwi events.
2009-06-26 16:11:08 // Vincent Heeringa
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That's the cover of the year, there. A brief brag about our wins at the MPA Magazine Awards.
2009-05-21 23:39:44 // Vincent Heeringa
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How did 100 talented entrepreneurs pick an idea only Murray Hewitt would think is cool?
2009-02-25 12:45:48 // Matt Cooney
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Matt Jones wowed the crowd at Webstock 2009, reinventing the idea of ‘the city’ in front of our eyes. Plants that twitter, organic architecture and a world haunted by d(a)emons
2009-02-21 09:21:39 // Ben Kepes
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So. Webstock is over for another year and, in an attempt to wean myself over the legal, but highly addictive, drug that is the Webstock event, I though I’d write the roundup, the epitaph, my personal catharsis from Webstock
2009-02-20 18:28:12 // Ben Kepes
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Damian Conway is a PhD in computer science and, until recently, was honorary professor of computer science at Monash University. He’s a designer, a columnist and an author.
2009-02-20 17:08:36 // Ben Kepes
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Bruce Sterling is a science fiction author, a design essayist and a net critic. He’s also one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
2009-02-20 15:34:12 // Ben Kepes
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Tom Coates is a product designer who has worked for UpMyStreet and the BBC and now works for Yahoo. He’s currently working on fire eagle. a location capturing, managing and sharing service.
2009-02-20 14:48:29 // Ben Kepes
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Matt Jones is a designer who was formerly creative director for the BBC news online. He was with Nokia as the director of UX design and he’s now with Dopplr.
2009-02-20 12:26:40 // Ben Kepes
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Feminist, political activist, translator, publisher and filmmaker Tesanovic is a creation of the 1999 Kosovo war. She wrote a war diary based on the war Diary of a Political Idiot.
2009-02-20 11:45:25 // Ben Kepes
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Annalee is editor of science/fiction blog i09.com and a former policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She asks what today’s science fiction telling us about where our technology will go tomorrow?
2009-02-20 10:46:02 // Matt Cooney
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There's an authentic community building around Webstock. What better place to learn about creating others?
2009-02-20 10:33:03 // Ben Kepes
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Derek is an international accessibility expert. Can we do things on the web that go beyond the ‘can we just meet the guidelines’ and make things truly more accessible for users?
2009-02-19 17:42:42 // Ben Kepes
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Ze Frank is an American online performance artist, composer, humourist and public speaker. He wanted to share notes, practical advice and war stories on the value of contribution through to the challenges of feeling a virtual audience.
2009-02-19 16:48:30 // Ben Kepes
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Michael Lopp is a veteran of Apple, Netscape, Borland and Symantec. He explores the class of people who span both Generation X and Y and that he calls “The Geeks”—a group that has spent the last two decades moving amongst the dark technological fringe and is now a mainstream demographic.
2009-02-19 15:40:45 // Ben Kepes
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Heather Champ is the director of community at Flickr, seeing it grow to 24 million members sharing 2.8 billions photos and videos with 3 billion page views per month.
2009-02-19 15:04:57 // Ben Kepes
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Adrian is a journalist (ahhh—that’s a good thing—a dying breed) and a developer of web apps for washingtonpost.com, lawrence.com and LJWorld.com. If that wasn’t enough he also co-created Django, the open-source development framework.
2009-02-19 14:09:44 // Ben Kepes
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David is a tech lead for Six Apart, home of the blogging software that powers most of the world's pro blogs—Movable Type.
2009-02-19 12:24:06 // Ben Kepes
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Meg Pickard is the head of communities and user experience for guardian.co.uk. She points out that users interact with content in many different ways. Consume, React, Curate, Create
2009-02-19 11:45:59 // Ben Kepes
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Author of ‘Design for Community, The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places’, Powazek is an alumnus of HotWired, Blogger and Technorati and he wondered why despite the wisdom of the crowds (Google “James Surowieck”), community generated content tends to be somewhat *low brow* results …
2009-02-19 10:36:32 // Ben Kepes
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Home-town hero Nat Torkington, ex (and sometimes current) alumni of O’Reilly media is always a good choice for an entertaining show, he didn’t disappoint this time!
2009-02-19 09:57:34 // Ben Kepes
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McGonigal is a game researcher at the institute for the future. Her ethos is that in game-design the human experience is perfectly optimized—we feel we have purpose, we feel we are collaborating and we feel we have a meaning. Why then are other aspects of our online (and for that mater offline) experience not fulfilling all these needs?
2009-02-19 09:13:34 // Ben Kepes
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Well here we are in the vibrant, creative and seemingly totally web-enabled city of Wellington (disclosure—I'm a Wellington boy borne and bred). Around 600 people have jetted in from all around the world to take part in what is quickly getting a name as one of the coolest conferences bar-none (heck—even the free schwag is a better class than what seasoned conference goers are used to).
2009-02-17 13:16:21 // Ben Kepes
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Some call Webstock the greatest conference this side of Silicon Valley, while others just call Webstock the greatest conference bar none
2008-12-01 09:45:54 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #19: interact
‘Transportation’ might be a strange word to describe a web conference, but for Webstock it’s a good fit. Plus on their way to Webstock: Jane McGonigal and Matt Jones
2008-05-30 11:30:00 // Hamish Coney
// Idealog #15: now
While most eyes turn to the Olympics, Dane Mitchell will be competing in Switzerland at the ‘Olympics of the art world’
2008-02-11 13:21:38 // Matt Cooney
// The Idealog Blog :: The Idealist
Congratulations to Webstock's organisers -- they've sold out. After missing the first Webstock and both Kiwi Foo Camps with unavoidable scheduling conflicts, I'm really looking forward to finally getting to a decent geekfest this week.
2007-11-09 11:28:20 // Gena Tuffery
// Idealog #12: now
Hats off to The New Dowse, which is demonstrating its multi-discipline exhibition policy with a show of millinery
