A very happy new year to all of you. We had a lovely new year’s eve with some friends which involved learning great photography processing…
Ruth Ellison on user experience design, usability and accessibility
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It’s been a couple of weeks since we’ve gotten back from Singapore and Malaysia. I’ve spent that time immersed back into work, coming up for…
Wow, what a year! 2011 has certainly speed past in a blur. When I started putting this post together, I never realised how much of a truly epic year it has been. There’s been lots of food, travel, conferences, adventures and did I mention food?!
It’s the last day of 2010 and it’s time to reflect on what a good year it has been.…
Like any good information architect, I’ve been doing a bit of a content audit of my clothes and re-evaluating my existing clothes categories. What this…
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. This year, I’ve decided to write…
The highly anticipated BarCampCanberra event happened yesterday, with a large gathering of smart and passionate folks from around Canberra, Yass, Wollongong and Sydney discussing interesting topics such as Government 2.0, social innovation, collaboration, typography, hackerspaces and more.
For those unfamiliar with the BarCamp concept:
BarCampCanberra is a free-to-attend community-run conference where anyone can come and watch, participate or present on anything they are passionate about – either something interesting they’ve been working on, an idea they’d like to present or to brainstorm the solution to a problem with a bunch of like-minded smart people
We had over 150 people registered for the event, 46 pizzas consumed, 72 bottles of water drunk (plus the additional cups and water containers) and 39 sessions including a series of 5 minute lighting talks (I love the 5 minute lighting talk format).
The event was tweeted, flickred, livestreamed and Googled waved. We were even covered in the Canberra Times (page 8 of the Sunday 7th February newspaper).
Some of my favourite quotes about BarCampCanberra comes from @dekrazee1:
Brain is still abuzz from #bcc2010. BarCamp is the techy equivalent of a day spa. Energising and invigorating. #I<3BarCamp
@RazChorev Yep. Sound ROI. That $50 of fuel (and ~8hrs of travel time) got me about $500 worth of education today. #bcc2010
A night of comedy, spandex, black lace and wicked satire – that describes the current show at Dracula’s Cabaret Restaurant in Melbourne. I’ve been to…