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Competing for the Tardiest ETech Entry Ever

Posted: April 24th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

… partly because I demand to win something, but mostly because I can’t properly do the next post without this one, and it’s been knocking at my brain for the past month. You know how it is.

So, after many years of trying and failing, I finally made it to ETech. Hell yes it was worth the wait (since you ask) and I got to present at two sessions – one of them our own (for which I must thank David for co-presenting so ably), the other a five-minute slot in the microformats talk (for which I must thank Tantek (again)). Anyway, if you get the chance please do check out our session – not only is it summarised neatly with useful links in that thar page, but there’s a screencast of the whole talk, which should answer most of the questions that most people fling at me about Ning. (Especially the “Can you explain Ning properly and give me some examples of how I’d use it? But hurry, I’ve only got 48 minutes and 51 seconds” one.)

As for the rest of it…

  • lots of lovely chilled peeps
  • debauchery and post-debauchery
  • game of the conference: Werewolf or Animal Crossing?
  • who can know what machinations churn in the mind of Shirky?
  • Maker Faire Lite: battling Roombas, Atari VCS casemods and Esther Dyson firing marshmallows at everyone, hence gags about treading Dyson Spheres into the carpet. (We’d have cleaned them up, but the only vacuum cleaners available were busy fighting)

One Comment on “Competing for the Tardiest ETech Entry Ever”

  1. 1 darrell said at 10:53 pm on May 3rd, 2006:

    oi yoz — glad to finally meet you last night — and thanks for the tip on inform 7 — can you drop me your email address to mine (above) to continue the conversation? best wishes d

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