Open Source Content Management Panel at Gilbane Boston
Next week, I’ll be moderating a panel on Open Source Content Management at the fifth annual Gilbane Boston Conference – “Where Content Management Meets Social Media.” It’s Thursday, December 4th, from...
View ArticleBarCamp Boston 4
One of my favorite new trends of the last couple of years is the unconference movement and the *Camps, associated originally with BarCamp (an alternative to the invite only, highly exclusive FooCamp...
View ArticleFuture of Media, Video WTF
Two quick notes on media: 1. Paul Gillin: “The Future of Media is: Small, Aggregated, Inclusive, Community-driven, Conversational, Fast, Flexible, Experimental.” 2. New from the PCF: Video WTF? First,...
View ArticleWordCamp NYC, WordCamp Boston
I’m very happy to note I will be attending, volunteering at, and speaking at WordCamp NYC, coming up in November 14th and 15th. My talk is one of the Saturday Sessions in the Beginning Developer track....
View ArticleWordCamp NYC, WPBook, WordCamp Boston
Here’s the slides from my presentation this morning at WordCamp NYC. It was in the “beginning developer” track so I tried to focus on the overall structure of how the plugin does what it does and the...
View ArticleBoston 140 Characters Conference succeeds despite coffee, wifi, power fail
The Fail Whale in Legos - Photo by Bjarne Panduro Tveskov - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tveskov/3387394098/ The 140 Characters Conference in Boston yesterday started off with three strikes against it,...
View ArticlePodcamp Boston This Weekend
Podcamp Boston (6) is this weekend (Sept. 24th and 25th) at the Microsoft NERD center. Here’s the schedule (which they haven’t yet published except as a google doc): My friend Dave Wieneke will be...
View ArticlePodcamp Boston 6
Made it in Saturday for the opening of Podcamp Boston 6. (After a few working weekends in a row, I couldn’t do two full days so I just came in for Saturday morning). While I was only able to catch...
View ArticleWordCamp Boston 2012
WordCamp Boston 2012 is coming up quickly: July 13th-15th, at the Boston University George Sherman Union (same venue as 2011). I’ll be speaking again, this time on the topic of “Why the #@*$!% isn’t...
View ArticleWordCamp Boston 2012, Design for Drupal 4
This weekend Boston lives up to its reputation as a strong city for open source CMS activities, with both WordCamp Boston 2012 and Design for Drupal 4 in the same weekend. WordCamp will be at the...
View ArticleThe Fox, the Hedgehog, and Responsive Web Design
Just before the holidays, I saw Tamsen Webster (@tamadear) speak at Creative Mornings Boston on the theme of Education. She anchored the discussion on the distinction between the fox and the hedgehog....
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