Morning thought: Gnomedex is a nice combination of technical people, but non-technical topics.
Killing time.
Once I saw the GeekBrief.TV logo, I realized I'd talked to them at SXSW. The world gets smaller everyday. Their style is much more theatrical and self-aware than the other presenters, way too cute really. Very sweet and nice people, they're obviously having a lot of fun with life and each other.
The clip of Ira Glass that they played (from that series of production videos he did) was bordering on impolitely long.
Ooh, sounds like it's going to be microfinance.
He talked about money as water without using the words sink or source- I'm impressed.
Tribal money- interesting concept. Makes me think about the tribes I'm part of- family, school, living groups, extracurriculars, etc. When does a group cross the line into tribe?
Sneakers time- "In prison I learned that everything in this world, including money, operates not on reality -- but the perception of reality."
All and all (all in all?), there're some interesting problems, and something's there, but I don't think this particular effort has much interest for me.
I skipped the last Ignite on the premise that I'd see the best of them here anyway, I'm excited to see how it goes.
Hmm, he's an energetic speaker, But Is It Art? Seems like he's completely missing the point.
At least he mentioned LOLcats.
This guy knows how to make some complex looking graphs. If you're going to have a pirate theme though, it needs to be on more than just the first slide.
Are online relationships real? Are webpages pages?
Nice quote: "The medium is the relationship"
The cynical take-away message is: make lots of friends, maybe some will come in handy later.
Enjoyable.
Unfair simplification: stop making stuff for TV or the web, switch to mobile phones.
Great slide style- each one is both sides of a flash card, a simple phrase on one side, the details (with cute cartoon and sample phrase) on the other.
VC overview from a UW MBA student.
Meet random people for lunch near you.
A crusade against boredom using everyday object.
Definitely the highlight of the Ignite talks.
Another great lunch. This time talk centered around politics and urban planning.
Ah JibJab. I'm still not clear on why their cartoons get so much press.
It's a much older company than I thought, and has expanded and contracted.
Their new "Starring You!" service is genius brilliant- and he presented it in a really great way, where he led us to the idea in such a way that I bet most of the audience came up with the idea before he explicitly described it.
He was videoconferencing in from his bed, diagnosed with terminal (?) colon cancer.
25 staples, dang.
Useful knowledge- podcasts are too intellectually challenging, TV is better for passive viewing when weak. Also, no mojitos with painkillers. Or maybe one.
Communications department at the U of W. Studies blogging.
She uses the word "squishy" more than normal.
This is the only full-length talk that I found totally useless. They clearly don't know the audience, and their academic study of blogging and podcasting seems lightyears behind CMS at MIT.
Funny moment at the end where the organizer called for Dave Winer to say something and he had left out of boredom (I just hacked on Apache instead).
Open sourcing clean energy, passive energy acquisition maybe?
Free energy shure would make the world a wunderful place, yep. And it's slightly possible that somebody will figure it out by accident.
But more likely it'll be a fake that will then be lit on fire and burned.
If you do develop a fantastic free energy device, you should open source it. You'll still make money and people will believe you faster.
There's really good technologies out there right now, but everyone is under NDA. Just wait though.
Mostly thanks were given. A lot of them went to family, so another
rigged giveaway.
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