Archive for July, 2007

State of the Word

« 22 July 2007 | 16:50 | 2007, Day 2, Presentation, WordCamp Live | 5 Comments »

He started with a review
Those Questions:
What’s with all the WordPresses.

WordPress.org (Self Hosted)
WordPress MU (Multi User)
WordPress.com (Hosted Blogs)



Usability Analysis of WordPress

« 22 July 2007 | 15:30 | 2007, Day 2, Presentation, WordCamp Live | 1 Comment »

How *NOT* to get noticed
Usability analysis of WordPress
Liz seems to have a lot of fans.  On the board of AIGA, she has a lot great credentials.  For this lecture she’s been studying WordPress for a bit about this.
She starts by talking about he design of elevators.  Generally people don’t notice elevator design. The change is [...]



Past, Present, and Future of Web Publishing

« 22 July 2007 | 14:28 | 2007, Day 2, Presentation, WordCamp Live | 2 Comments »

 Dave started with a history. 
Take technology and go with it, where it takes you as a user.
How he got started with blogging.  The first blog was actually Tim Berners-Lee’s the very first website at http://info.cern.com. He was working on a project for Wired, A day of democracy, and he was chronologically posting information.  And he [...]



Lunch and Live Music

« 22 July 2007 | 13:20 | 2007, Day 2, WordCamp Live | 1 Comment »

Ok lunch was different. Not only did we get great food in the form of Memphis Minnies BBQ. I also was involved in a couple podcasts. We did a wordcamp wrap up on Apple Universe with Daniel Brusilovsky (also blog). In the podcast we touched on the different sessions we had seen. And after [...]



Designing Massively Multiplayer Social Systems

« 22 July 2007 | 12:01 | 2007, Day 2, Presentation, WordCamp Live | 1 Comment »

 Originally titled Iterative Design in Agile Environments, it seems that they moved with the feelings, or questions of the original topic to something that people want to grab on to.
She is Co-Founder of SlideShare.net.
Her slideshow -> http://www.slideshare.net/rashmi/social-design-wordcamp