2011-03-21 11:18:54 // Ben Kepes
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It seems a little hypocritical to bemoan the narcissism of the recent South by Southwest festival when one considers that I spent most of the conference walking around in a shirt with my name printed on it in large letters. Then again, that hardly counts as narcissism at an event where the very core was all about ensuring the tens of thousands of attendees were in no doubt whatsoever that they were indeed the centre of the universe and the ones tasked with grappllng the big issues facing the world.
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
// Idealog #31: features
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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
2010-12-20 16:29:32 // Design Daily Team
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Enzed's top web designers and developers have been narrowed down to a precious few with announcement of the 2011 ONYA Awards finalists. The ONYA Awards, held as part of the impending 2011 Webstock extravaganza, celebrate those who design, develop and create New Zealand's best websites and applications.
And now, onto the finalists...
2010-10-21 10:23:13 // Design Daily Team
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...Webstock 2011, didn’t you know? It’s so good, alliteration has been used to describe the event: Bigger. Brighter. Better. The event is set to take place in Wellington from 14-18 February and features industry leaders and kick-ass speakers talking on topics such as accessibility, web standards, usability and other best practices.
2010-09-16 11:35:54 // Design Daily Team
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The folks behind web extravaganza event ‘Webstock’ have been planning the 2011 event since the day Webstock 2010 ended. And next year’s event is set to be launched in just one week’s time on Thursday September 23, and lucky you, you’re invited.
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.
2010-04-23 11:48:21 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #27: interact
Eric Ries has watched promising companies burn, accidental ideas succeed and bad products turn good. Working out why has led him to his own methodology, the Lean Startup. But will Silicon Valley’s rules work in Enzed?
2010-02-19 17:31:23 // Ben Kepes
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One poet's journey from page to stage, with pit stops in HTML, travel, weird fortune, memes, happiness and other fancy stuff.
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.
2010-02-19 14:42:13 // Ben Kepes
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More like a blessing than a performance, Kevin will perform a baroque aria by Handel with his signature emotional depth and subtlety.
2010-02-19 13:51:01 // Ben Kepes
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Most everyone has something of value they long to share or contribute. Whether an artisan is seeking out a market for their handmade goods on Etsy, an unpublished author finding an audience on Blurb, or a hungry mind adding context and relevance to a Wiki page, empowering participation is invaluable.
2010-02-19 11:42:05 // Ben Kepes
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Watch out, there's a plague afoot! A plague of what, you ask? A plague of same-y-ness! Blogs, apps, sites—they all look the same. The web has become a place of templates rather than innovation. That means big wins are available for he and she who would dare to break the mould. Learn how to break out of the same-y rut, catch your accidentally copying, and create sites and apps that dare to be different. It'll be just like Zero-Based Accounting, but fun.
2010-02-19 10:33:24 // Ben Kepes
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User interface design is an iterative process — the design of Digg and Pownce have been a study in evolution and adaptation. This talk will inspect the why and how of these iterations by looking at specific case studies from the two projects as well as previous client work Daniel has tackled.
2010-02-19 09:46:48 // Ben Kepes
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High-tech product development projects are notoriously difficult to manage. They come in over budget and behind schedule, draining cash reserves and squandering revenue opportunities. Many fail outright. Often times, when customers hands finally touch the product, it is unusable, buggy, or defective. Worst of all, the software may work as specified, but there are simply no customers willing to purchase it. All of these problems share a common cause: the tremendous waste inherent in an undisciplined approach to imagining, designing, and building new products.
2009-12-11 09:58:45 // Mike Brown & Natasha Lampard
// Idealog #25: interact
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Webstock 2010 is nearly upon us. Webstock’s senior VPs reflect on past glories—and those yet to come.
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.
2009-02-25 12:45:48 // Matt Cooney
// The Idealog Blog
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 14:05:35 // Ben Kepes
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Russ Weakley has a 13 year pedigree in graphic design, web development, interface design and standards based development. He’s the author of Teach yourself CSS in TenMinutes and he works for the Australian museum. Two years ago he presented to Webstock suggesting that navigation be torn apart and be replaced by total reliance on tagging — today’s talk is a “so what happened?” review.
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 11:08:03 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog TV
Adrian Holovaty is reinventing online journalism, where the data tells the tale and statistics never lie
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?
2009-02-20 09:41:02 // Ben Kepes
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Russell Brown is a blogger, a journalist and (according to traditional media) an ‘internet specialist’. So what are the trend that are at the forefront of publishing at the moment?
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?
2009-02-17 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
2008-02-11 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.
