{"id":64,"date":"2005-02-22T20:59:12","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T04:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/archives\/2005\/02\/22\/northern-voice\/"},"modified":"2005-06-09T13:05:38","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T20:05:38","slug":"northern-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2005\/02\/northern-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"

The North\u00adern Voice blog\u00adging con\u00adfer\u00adence<\/a> was on Sat\u00adurday. I was on the organ\u00adiz\u00ading com\u00admit\u00adtee<\/a> and I was glad that all our efforts paid off. People seemed to really enjoy them\u00adselves, chaos did\u00adn\u2019t even threaten to take over, and because some registered attendees did\u00adn\u2019t show up, we even man\u00adaged to fit every\u00adone in without exceed\u00ading the fire depart\u00adment reg\u00adu\u00adlated capa\u00adcity! There\u2019s some\u00adthing relaxed about put\u00adting on a con\u00adfer\u00adence that only costs $CAD<\/span> 20 to attend (of which a quarter went on the cof\u00adfee and tea, so it was nice that we were praised for the tea selec\u00adtion). We also had a good num\u00adber of spon\u00adsors<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The con\u00adfer\u00adence con\u00adtents have been exhaust\u00adively covered in oth\u00ader post\u00adings \u2014 I have nev\u00ader been to an event that was so logged, blogged, and pho\u00adto\u00adgraphed in my life! The first posts and pho\u00adtos were going up 15 minutes in to the con\u00adfer\u00adence \u2014 just check out the 566 pho\u00adtos on Flickr<\/a>, the Pub\u00adSub feed<\/a>, the Tech\u00adnor\u00adati feed<\/a>, or the del.icio.us list\u00ading<\/a> to get a fla\u00advour of the day. <\/p>\n

This was a small. light\u00adweight con\u00adfer\u00adence with lots of scope for people to talk. At $20, people could afford to come who knew little about tech\u00adno\u00adlogy (e.g., the woman who asked Tim Bray what Sun Microsys\u00adtems does, as she\u2019d nev\u00ader heard of it) but we also had people from way out\u00adside Van\u00adcouver (Bay area, the UK<\/span>, Toronto\u2026) which I would\u00adn\u2019t have expec\u00adted. And they all seemed to get some\u00adthing from it and star\u00adted ask\u00ading about next year. <\/p>\n

Per\u00adson\u00adal take-aways: I should\u00adn\u2019t be so form\u00adal in what I write; writ\u00ading more rather than being per\u00adfect is what I should focus on (I blame too many years spent writ\u00ading form\u00adal sci\u00adentif\u00adic papers). The RSS<\/span> excerpt vs full feed debate goes on; one way to make sure Robert Scoble does\u00adn\u2019t read what you write is to only put head\u00adlines in your feed, for example, and short excerpts are also likely to get your blog dumped from his feed list (one could per\u00adhaps think about wheth\u00ader this is an advant\u00adage or not, depend\u00ading on wheth\u00ader you want someone in Microsoft pay\u00ading atten\u00adtion to what you write). The biggest buzzwords were authen\u00adti\u00adcity and trans\u00adpar\u00adency and how to find the line between reveal\u00ading enough of your\u00adself to be your\u00adself, without com\u00adprom\u00adising your or oth\u00ader people\u2019s pri\u00advacy. I also dis\u00adcovered that even in a con\u00adfer\u00adence with only two tracks you can miss out on a lot and pod\u00adcasts only go so far in alle\u00advi\u00adat\u00ading that. And that if people enjoy the day, they want to buy the t\u2011shirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The North\u00adern Voice blog\u00adging con\u00adfer\u00adence was on Sat\u00adurday. I was on the organ\u00adiz\u00ading com\u00admit\u00adtee and I was glad that all our efforts paid off. People seemed to really enjoy them\u00adselves, chaos did\u00adn\u2019t even threaten to take over, and because some registered attendees did\u00adn\u2019t show up, we even man\u00adaged to fit every\u00adone in without exceed\u00ading the \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cNorth\u00adern Voice\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}