Some very exciting news for everyone who’s going to be in town for Web Directions South 2008. Those four days in September just got even better with the Webjam team announcing that the all new Webjam 8 will happen at Bar Broadway on September 25, right after our opening night drinks. So I think you […]
Following on from all the comments we got on the the two blog posts we put out there last week on this topic, John and I decided to do a bit further investigation into extending wifi into the conference theatres this year at Web Directions South. It hasn’t quite been a Channel 7 investigation, but […]
There’s some cute remixes of the Web Directions T shirt over at Redbubble already. Very droll, all of you :) You can order “Cloud vs Bird” at Redbubble today for just $27.72, with free shipping – just make sure you use the code “WD08″. Susan MacGillivray – Cloud vs Tweet Mathew Patterson – Statistically Speaking […]
John wrote here yesterday about Wifi availability at the conference venue this year. The good news is, if all goes according to plan, we should be swimming in the network, which is great. There’s been a bit of talk about backchannels, and specifically, whether or not Wifi should be available in the theatres as well […]
A couple of weeks back I had the pleasure of attending the closing keynote at the Local Government Web Network Conference. It was an excellent presentation by Lachlan Hardy on the possibilities created by the ideas behind the open web for local government, but the ideas in it have application way beyond this specialty area. […]
I’m sure I’ve spoken about Indi’s excellent presentation from Web Directions North earlier this year before. It was such a clear headed explanation of her Mental Models methodology for aligning your design strategy with how people actually work. You may also have read her recent Rosenfeld Media book, Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human […]
I laughed out loud the moment I saw the very first iteration of Carla’s idea for the Web Directions T Shirt. It always appeals to my sense of humour to reflect on those painful moments of misunderstanding you have to go through if you are going to participate in that thing we call society. Having […]
Update Our first remix, by Gary Barber….the whale puts in his inevitable appearance. And here’s a cute one from Susan MacGillivray – Cloud vs Tweet This year we wanted to do something a lil different from your average conference t shirt, so the first person we thought of to come up with something that would […]
Interesting story in today’s SMH technology section. Queensland based company Orange Dot are on a mission to design a mobile phone for adults with intellectual disabilities, many of whom find modern phones too complex and difficult to use. That was the experience of a 34-year-old man with Down’s Syndrome, who having missed his bus connection […]
No doubt you’ve all whiled away the odd hour putting your name, and that of all your friends into the famous Baby Name Explorer. But it was always a bit artificial from an Aussie point of view I felt, because the data was from the US. What, no Lachlan?? The good news is, thanks to […]
Got a great idea for a video game? I know I do. You get these two sticks which you can move vertically up and down the screen to hit a square ball back and forth. As the ball hits the stick, it makes a really cool, lifelike beeping sound…..(if you’re too young to know what […]
If you happened upon a copy of yesterday’s Icon in the Sydney Morning Herald you may have noticed “Dopple Your Fun” – where five local internet gurus – Cheryl Lead, Virginia Murdoch, John Allsopp, Lachlan Hardy and Tim Lucas were asked by the Herald’s Nick Galvan to extemporise on what they thought was “the latest […]
Local web visionary Mark Pesce has become a fixture as our closing keynote at Web Directions South. He spoke a couple of months back at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York, where he was also interviewed on The Alcove. Here’s the interview in full. Mark speaks at length on the good, bad, fascinating implications […]
Words? Code? Design? Which are you? And do you want a free t-shirt so you can let the world know? It’s easy to get your hands on one – all you need to do is blog or Flickr something about Web Directions and tag it ‘moltnWD’. Wear your passion at Web Directions. Cheryl and Scott […]
Let the decision making begin: Developing for iPhone or Strategies for Social Media Engagement, Creating Sexy Style Sheets or Choosing the Right Web App Framework. Because the official schedule for Web Directions South 2008 has now been set in stone and handed down. I’ve laboured over this a bit this year. While the kinds of […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
