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Tag Yourself

In Uncategorized on 8 March 2006 tagged chi, conference, etech, heel, iasummit, iasummit2006, netsquared, sxsw, sxsw2006, sxswi, tagging, ted, ted2006 with 9 comments

You’ve seen conference badges at conferences and nametags at big parties. At the recent Adaptive Path party, I “tagged” myself. Ha. Ha. I’m so clever, right? I mean gee, Kevin, you’re such an original character. Well let’s see what happened. I put: Kevin OK/Cancel Yahoo Comics Canada Skiing and then ran out of space. During [...]

Conference Virgins and Conference Friends

In Thoughts and Rants on 6 March 2006 tagged conference, okcancel, sxsw, sxsw2006, sxswi, ted, ted2006 with 5 comments

At TED, they had a term called “TED virgin”. I can understand why they say that – it really is one of those experiences where you have to have been there to understand what it’s about. Some aspects are not unique to TED, however and the concept of a conference virgin is one of them. [...]

The Magic of TED

In Personal on 26 February 2006 tagged conference, dynamo, magic, ted, ted2006 with 1 comment

Dynamo, a street magician from UK was performing and presenting at TED2006. On the following night, at the Aquariem Party, he was performing to small groups. Someone mentioned that he may be using a trick deck. As it so happens, I carry a deck of cards with my laptop bag at all times and as [...]

At TED

In Design, Technology, Thoughts and Rants on 23 February 2006 tagged alpc, conference, connexions, gapminder, hans rosling, infoviz, nicholas negroponte, ted, ted2006 with Comments Off

Day two of TED conference (where I’m uploading pictures as soon and often as I can). This conference was meant to be the change of pace from the many design conferences I tend to go to. TED stands for Technology Entertainmend Design and has just an incredible speaker lineup (which I really can’t do justice). [...]