2008 January | Web Directions

Archive for January, 2008

2008

• In: Blog
• By: john
• January 24th, 2008

Well, 2008 for Web Directions is about to kick off with version 2.0 (sorry, couldn't resist) of Web Directions North in Vancouver next week. Great to see a few Aussie folks heading over - hopefully it's not just the bumper season at Whistler? But all those in the Southern Hemisphere, fear ...

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Perth event: Ideas 4

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• January 20th, 2008

Tickets have just gone on sale for Ideas 4, the fourth in a series of great evenings brought to you by the Australian Web Industry Association, to be held on January 30 at the Melbourne Hotel, Perth. Sounds like a great line up with usability expert Lisa Herrod of ...

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The Commons - folksonomy meets the Library of Congress

• In: Blog
• By: john
• January 16th, 2008

One of our most popular speakers last year, George Oates of Flickr, writes in detail today about a collaboration between the Library of Congress (the US National Library), and Flickr to enable anyone to tag the Library's photographic collection. For now it's a pilot project of about 1500 photos, but hopefully ...

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Web Directions Merchandise

• In: Blog
• By: john
• January 15th, 2008

Can't make it to Web Directions North? Heading there, but want to take a little reminder with you? We'll, now you can get a range of clothing, mugs, mousepads and other gear featuring either the fantastic Happy Webbies bag design for WDN08, or Dave Shea's fantastic Web Direction ...

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Mark Pesce on Stephen Conroy’s proposed Australian net censorship

• In: Blog
• By: john
• January 14th, 2008

We were pretty disappointed over these parts to see that an early initiative of the new Australian Labor government was a continuation of the anti-technology, muddle headed thinking of the little lamented former Liberal government. The proposed legislation would require ISPs to block a black list of sites prepared by ...

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Scott Berkun Podcast and slides now available

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• January 10th, 2008

The Myths of Innovation, presented by Scott Berkun was one of the most intriguing and challenging presentations of Web Directions South 2007. It's just a shame a few people missed it as it was on first thing on the Friday morning. The good news is that the MP3 Scott's thought provoking ...

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Who does these things?

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• January 2nd, 2008

Is it just me, or is there anyone else out there utterly gobsmacked by the fact that in 2008 one can go to the site for one of the country's leading cultural events only to be blasted by blaring objectionable music that can't even be turned off properly, at ...

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