We talk about connection a lot. We talk about social objects, social networks... technology to connect people.
But for all that, a lot of the time we remain distracted by the tools we're using. The experience is often "using the service" rather than "connecting with friends".
Then there are some moments which show us what connection really means.
The old rules for supporting screen resolutions were simple. Monitors were basically all the same shape and new ones just got a little bigger... so all you really had to do was support the standard resolution of new monitors, plus one resolution "back". Easy!
But these days the rules aren't so simple. Desktop monitors are generally bigger, but they come in a variety of sizes and ratios; and users don't always maximise their browser windows anyway. People are browsing on tiny mobile phones that weren't really designed for anything longer than a text message. Devices like the iPhone, Nintendo Wii and Asus Eee PC are new and shiny, yet their resolution is retro.
Hot on the heels of barcampsydney, it's time for Queenslanders to get their barcamp on! BarCampGoldCoast 2 has just been announced. It's being held at Griffith Uni's Gold Coast campus on 29th November 2008. Registrations are open now; head on over and sign up.
They're also looking for sponsors - it's incredibly cheap ($150-300) to sponsor a barcamp, yet it puts your brand in front of some seriously bright people. So it rates very high on the 'bang for your promotional bucks' scale. [/pitch] ;)
Not only but also... word on the street is that there are barcamps coming up for Canberra and Adelaide. Keep an eye on http://barcamp.org/#Australia for details.
BarCampSydney 4 has just been announced for the 15th of November. For details, head on over to BarCampSydney | BarCampSydney 4 - Let’s do it!!.
The WSG Sydney October 2008 meeting was held at the Australian Museum tonight, at the rather nice 4th floor/balcony venue. These are my notes from the event.
What follows is Web Directions South 2008, as seen on my flickr and twitter streams. With some annotations where I felt it was appropriate. I kind of like the picture that emerges :)
In the tradition of my "big stonking posts", these are my notes from WDS08 - basically unfiltered for the most part (so, effectively they are "liveblog" in tone). Anything [inside square brackets] is an aside, my own thoughts rather than something the speaker said. I did think about putting these into the stream post, but it was just getting insanely long :)
