Archive for March 19th, 2007

Monday 5pm - Death of the Desktop

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Interesting but somewhat prophetic. Elsewhere in the conference I heard someone say that the best way to prevent the future is to predict it. Raskin is definitely predicting his version of the future. He had a few good ideas and many that I didn't agree with. The good ...

Monday 3:30pm - Tech Tools for Film Artists

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Almost interesting.  Sorry, but I only attended because there wasn't much else happening and the 25 minutes sessions were proving to be all fluff. There was a viewing of some videos, flash animations, and samples of rendering tools.  Most of it I'd already seen and some of it was downright old ...

Monday 2pm - Growth of Microformats

Monday, March 19th, 2007

An interesting talk about something I didn't understand because it's just too simple.  I've always wondered: "Isn't this just a pile of attributes on html elements?" and yes, that's all it is.  There's nothing to understand, it's that easy. All that being said, it's simply a way to publish information (that ...

Monday 11:30am - Being a Coppola in the "Brookers" Era

Monday, March 19th, 2007

I didn't pay much attention to this session. I was more intent on catching up on some email and feeds since I was finally able to get a reasonable connection on my table. Mark took some notes so hopefully he will post something when he gets time to ...

Monday 10am - Getting Girls Into Games

Monday, March 19th, 2007

The only panelist that I was familar with was Jane Pinckard and that's only through occasionally reading her articles. This session appealed to me because I have a 10yo daughter who's into gaming and I was interested in understanding her attraction to the games and hopefully help me pick ...