Liz put forward my “Living on the Edge” talk up for the popular vote South-By-Southwest Interactive (you’re allowed to pressgang other people into appearing, apparently). She let me know I was a contender with a few minutes to go before the deadline. Attempting to re-assert control over my life, I improvised some more proposals: an EFFy event, and one Life Hacks confessional.
As a consequence, it now looks like I’m trying to spam the SXSW panel-picker, and I’m not, no no no I’m not.
Anyway, feel free to vote for me in any combination of ways. Here’s the selection:
- Living on the Edge (of the Network)–
How and why we must move to the edge of the network, the edge of the Internet cloud, taking our data out of the hands of centralized corporate services. We can colonize routers and IPv6, phones, and other edges and keep our Internet nodes free and edgy (not my description, but I like it!)
- How Not To Be Evil (Even By Accident) – Everyone starts with good intentions (well, almost everybody). But when your Net idea goes huge, or the bottom line lurches, we’re all tempted to cut corners on that hip “don’t be evil” pledge. Panelists from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and elsewhere reveal how you can stop your future self from betraying you, your values — and your users.
- Life Hacks Babylon — Gurus Give Their Self-Help Nightmares – Ever wonder if those people blogging about ways to get things done, reach inbox zero, fight procrastination and develop ten new ways to tie their shoelaces are just a little *too* obsessed? You don’t know the half of it. Nightmare tales of self-motivation gone awry from the big names in self-help.
You know, I think people hate self-publicity in blogs, but I realise why people do it. It totally lets you fill up space with something you know vaguely about.
Anyway, here’s what I slapdashedly picked from the 1198 other entries(!), picked without comment (except that the first three are from friends, who I’d vouch for as being particularly good. Or particularly my friends, depending on how you see these things).
Firefox hint: if you hit Ctrl (might be a different control key under Mac or Windows) as you drag over a table, you can select individual cells and columns, and you can paste those cells into forms or spreadsheets and preserve the table data.
| Rachel Chalmers, The 451 Group | The Storm Cloud: Business, Infrastructure and Generation Y | Rachel is very very smart, and fascinating topic. |
| Liz Henry, BlogHer | Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD | Liz has lots of great things to say on this. |
| Jason Schultz, UC Berkeley School of Law | User-Interpreted TOSes: Who Defines the Fine Print? | Jason is always great on this kind of things. |
| Dennis Dayman, Eloqua | Email Deliverability Secrets from Deliverability.com | I’ve been interested in email deliverability since the Goodmail farrago; it’s sort of the SEO of SMTP, but it gives you an interesting insight into the collateral damage of spam. |
| Derek Neighbors, Gangplank | Collaborative Development Environments | |
| Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Feministing.com | That’s Not My Name: Beating Down Online Misogyny | Women are getting really smart at dealing with nasty attacks, which isn’t surprising as they’re pretty much the first in line to get them. |
| Jeff Eaton, Lullabot | Drupal With Its Pants Off | Extra star for title. Drupal is what we use at work. |
| Andrew Feinberg, Washington Internet Daily / CapitolValley.net | Hackers Meet Hacks: Tech-Friendly Public Policies in the Digital Era | Washington Internet Daily are a pretty good source for inside tech policy wonkiness; it’d be interesting to see a view from inside the beltway. |
| Tony Shawcross, Denver Open Media | Why NonProfit is the Right Choice for your Startup | One of those “how much do I actually know about non-profit work’ fact-checks. I can never tell whether I’m hopelessly clueless or actually quite experienced. Yes, it is all about me. |
| Brian Zisk, brianzisk.com | Policy Trainwreck: How Copyright Law Failed the Digital Age | Brian’s a mensch, and has seen this whole battle play out from a great vantage point as both an insider and outsider to the music business. If they’d followed his advice ten years ago, they wouldn’t be screwed. |
| Chris Bucchere, bdg | Not So Simple Any More: RSS’s Bleeding Edge | Sort of curious about potential new uses for RSS, still. I still struggle to think of how to use RSS to deliver private data between individuals. |
| Aarron Walter, The Web Standards Project (WaSP) | No Web Professional Left Behind: Educating the Next Generation | Want to get a grip on where WaSP thinks things are heading. |
| Joshua Baer, OtherInbox.com | Don’t Declare Email Bankruptcy! Take Control of Your Inbox. | Contractual Life Hacks obligatory attendance. |
| Sandy Jen, Meebo, Inc. | Scaling Synchronous Web Apps | Interesting problem! |
| Rusty Hodge, SomaFM.com internet radio | Rewriting the DMCA: How to Improve Section 114 | Always up for policy suggestions. |
| Jonathan Dahl, Tumblon | Functional Programming Without A (Strictly) Functional Language | Just like seeing something like this at SXSW. Might well be more interested in the audience than the topic. |
| Megan McCarthy, Freelance Writer | Surviving Scandal: How to Manage Negative Attention in the Internet Age | I have a feeling I will hate what ends up being said here, but that’s no reason not to go. |
| Mark Taylor, Level 3 Communications | DRM is Dead | Well, duh. |
| Patrick Moorhead, Avenue A | Razorfish | The Invisible Web and Ubiquitous Computing | I shall drop by and see if ubiq still has the smell of 2001 about it. |
| Larry Chiang, What They Dont Teach You At Stanford Business School.com | What They Dont Teach You At Stanford Business School | I like confessionals. |
| Martin Kliehm, namics (deutschland) gmbh | The HTML 5 Canvas Element | I love love love Canvas. It’s like having a little Apple ][ in your browser. |
| Eric Steuer, Creative Commons | Did You Get Ripped Off? Understanding Appropriation | Thinking lots about appropriation at the moment. |
| Evan Carroll, Capstrat | Who Will Check My Email After I Die? | Why not think about this? |
| Vince Parr, Globe Telecoms, Inc. | Growing Your Web Traffic Through Mobile Phones in Asia | Don’t have enough anecdata about telephony in asia. |
| Rebecca Moore, Google | Google Goes to the Amazon | Sounds like a fascinating story. |
| Jack Moffitt, Chesspark | The XMPP Powered Web | I am all about the Jabber. |
| Lisa Herrod, Scenario Girl | Aging, Cognition & Deafness: The Quirky Corners of Web Accessibility | Inherently fascinating. |
| Cyrus Massoumi, ZocDoc, Inc. | Solving the Healthcare Problem…Online | Worthy. |
| David Marks, Loomia | Privacy and Personalization – Oxymoron or the Perfect Match? | Again, angles on privacy always interest me. |
| Allen Tom, Yahoo! | OpenID: Foundation of the Social Web | Want to see big OpenID death brawls. |
| Chris Gammon, Ludorum | Google Runs My Office | Opposing POV to the edge talk. |
| Tim Hwang, ROFLCon | The State of the Internet Memescape: 2008-10 | Funny, I hoop. |
| Edwin Outwater, EO3 Consulting | Love Thy Archivist for He Will Become a Profit Center | Archivists are always the lynchpin. Hopefully they can escape being turned into ‘profit centers’. |
| Keely Kolmes, Keely Kolmes Private Psychotherapy Practice | Therapy 2.0: Mental Health for Geeks | Undercovered. Have overpowering personal interest. |
| Gabriela Schneider, Sunlight Foundation | How the Internet is Transforming Governance | Sunlight are doing really great things right now. |
| David Crow, Microsoft | The World Isn’t Flat – Building the Next Silicon Valley | I end up having to write a “How do we make X into the next Silicon Valley’ piece every 18 months. |
| Doc Searls, Berkman Center for Internet and Society | VRM – the Consumer’s Revenge | Doc always has something pertinent to say. |
| Dan Willis, UX Crank | User Experience 2009: More Crap You Already Know | Title made me laugh. |
| Jack Moffitt, Chesspark | X Is For XMPP: An Open Messaging Primer | Jabber, jabber, jabber. |
| Marian Merritt, Symantec | Is Good Cyber Citizenship Really Necessary? | Have a feeling I will agree with everything here, but always like to hear it. |
| Natasha Sakina Alani, Adaptive Path | Designing Rural Infrastructure: A Euphemism for Money Laundering | Damn true. |
| Eileen Gittins, Blurb, Inc. | Pursue Your Passion — Leave the Infrastructure to Someone Else | Will try not to be bratty contrarian at back. |
| Scott McDaniel, SurveyGizmo | How to Become a Google Analytics Expert in a Weekend | Analytics is one of those places where people give more to Google than they get back: I want to see what they get. |
| Robert Scales, Raincity Studios | Using Drupal to Manage, Publish, and Promote Your Content | Drupal must meet my ignorance head on. |
| John Athayde, Hyphenated People | Learning from Architecture | Ex-architects are always great conversation-at-3AM people. |
| Jason Seifer, Rails Envy | OAuth in Every Language | Need… to… understand.. Oauth… better. |
| Paul Schreiber, Apple | Your Error Messages Suck: Stop Doing That | Will attend for the funny examples. |
| Glen Campbell, Yahoo! Inc. | Kill the Fail Whale: Scale Your Site | Scaling is fascintating. |
| Michael Verdi, Millions of Us | Machinima Kung Fu | Have failed to track machinima for last 5 years, want to catch up. |
| Jeffrey Palermo, Headspring Systems | Managing High-Performing Agile Teams | Vicarious love of agile anecdotage. |
| John Zeratsky, Google | Getting Things Done the Simple Way | Obligatory Life Hacks attendance. |
| John Erik Metcalf, Entrepreneur / Conjunctured Coworking / Startup District | Ditch the Valley, Run for the Hills | Love Austin. |
| Fred Benenson, Creative Commons | Non-Profit Technology Work: How You Can Do Good | Again, want to understand non-profiteryness more. |
| Heather Champ, Flickr | From Flickr and Beyond – Lessons in Community Management | Heather rules. |
| John Eckman, Optaros | Open Source and Design: Ideologies Clashing | Current obsession. |
| Scott Barnes, Microsoft Corp. | Why the F#$k Should I Care About RIA? | Yeah, why the fucking fuck should I? |
| Derek Gottfrid, The New York Times | Exploiting Massive Parallelism for Fun and Profit | Know the story, want to know more. |
| Andrew Parker, Union Square Ventures | Hacking Philanthropy | Sort of obligatory, though have yet to hear good version of this story. |
| Izzy Neis, Six Degree Games | Ask the Moderators: Q&A with Kids Communities Managers | Want to hear realistic take on how “omg think of the children” scenarios are actually handled. |
| Colin Henry, LiquidPlanner / Apptio | F*cking with Human Backed Web Services | Smells like a hack. |
| Bhaskar Roy, Qik | Tinkerers Unite: Let Me Show You How it Works | Yay fredom to tinker. |
| Jakob Heuser, Gaia Online | Unit Testing Back to Front: Prove it Works! | Testing changed my life. |
| Maria Diaz, Writer | Growing Up as An Internet Oversharer | Public/private dichotomy – you’ll always get me with that. |
| Alex Hillman, Independents Hall | Do Well by Doing Good – Civic Entrepreneurship | Worthiness. |
| Margaret Stewart, Google Inc | Herding Cats: The Role of the UX Manager | User experience handling in something I want to know more about. |
| Jon Wiley, Google | Back Off Man, I’m A Scientist: User Generated Discovery | Title made me laugh. |
| Jason Reneau, MindBites | Debunking the Free-tard Manifesto: Marketplaces, Content & Rationality | Expect to get really really angry at this. It’s a good emotion! |
| Joe Solomon, EngageJoe.com | How to Save the World with Firefox Extensions! | Want to know more about FF. |
| M. Jackson Wilkinson, Viget Labs | Fitting Design and UX into an Agile Process | Again, UX and agile has been a question I’ve had for 5 years. |
| Thor Muller, Get Satisfaction | Welcome to Your Posthuman Future | Oh, gotta go to the posthumanist SIGs. |
| Rebecca Fox, mediabistro.com | Why Is Professional Blogging Bloodsport for Women? | See general interest in dealing with trolls. |
| Dana Loesch, Mamalogues.com / KFTK 97.1 FM | Protecting Your Intellectual Property | They trademarked their name? WTF? |
| Guy Tennant, Entriq | DRM and Content Providers: A Match Made in Heaven? | Will inevitably be fascinated by this. |
| Tim Keanini, BayMOO.org | What Can MUDs/MOOs Teach us About Social Technologies? | Will come for the audience. |
| Danny Kolke, Etelos, Inc. | OpenID, OAuth, Data Portability and the Enterprise | Put off by mention of ‘the enterprise” but Oauth draws me in. |
| Bruce Henry, LiquidPlanner | Forgetting FTW! | Good choice ‘o’ topic. |
| Jeremiah Robison, Slide, Inc. | Scale or Die: 10 Lessons About Scaling and Security | Anecdotage on scaling is always good. |
| Gareth Knight, Kindo.com | Lessons Learned Building Global Apps with Multi-Cultural Teams | International relationships – ongoing obsession. |
| Tantek Çelik, tantek.com | State of the Microformats | Tantek! The casanova of the div tag! |
| Tara Hunt, Citizen Agency | Making Whuffie: Raising Social Capital in Online Communities | Tara knows much, good speaker. |
| Sarah Lefton, UGOBE | Welcome Our Robotic Overlords: The Birth Of New Hot Industry | Robots! |
| Heather Gold, subvert | Making a Living Being Yourself | Heather! |
| Amy Hoy, Hyphenated People | How to Be a Glorious Generalist | You had me at everything. |
| David Crow, Microsoft | How to Demo Like a Demon | I imagine this has stagecraft stuff in it, which I still maintain an interest in. |
| Fred Benenson, Creative Commons | DRM: The Fight Isn’t Over Yet | Haha, will people please make up their mind? |
| Jacob Harris, The New York Times | Get Me Rewrite! Developing APIs and the Changing Face of News | Journalism + tech is current obsession. |
| Anton Kast, Digg | Collaborative Filters: The Evolution of Recommendation Engines | Hmm, if it references academic papers, I’m all in. |
| Sachin Agarwal, Dawdle.com | Influencing Internet Legislative Changes: Why and How | This sounds deeply in my area. |
| Lilia Manguy, Avenue A | Razorfish | Successful Incentive Systems for User-Generated Content | Weirded out enough by this to be interested. |
| Aral Balkan, Singularity Web Conference | Building on a Cloud | Finding out what people make of cloud infrastructure. |
| Mark Hines, Ratchet | How Decentralization Impacts Your Content Management Strategy | Decentralization! Gather around everyone! |
| Clay Johnson, Sunlight Foundation | Coding for Civic Participation | Sunlight out in force. |
| Eran Feigenbaum, Google | Safety From Above: Cloud Computing and Enterprise Security | More cloud anecdata. |
| Sean Bonner, seanbonner.com | Change the World in 5 Easy Steps | Have never met Sean, want to. |
| Doc Searls, Linux Journal, Harvard Berkman Center | Rebuilding the World with Free Everything | Doc! |
| Jonathan Zittrain, Oxford University; Oxford Internet Institute | The Future of the Internet and How To Stop It | Zittrain! |
| Dan Hon, Six to Start | We Told Stories – Designing Storytelling Online | Dan! |
| Joi Podgorny, Ludorum | Setting Up and Running a Remote Team in China | China! |
| Dan Hon, Six to Start | The BBC, Six to Start and ARGs – Bringing TV to the Web | Dan again! |
| Traci Fenton, WorldBlu, Inc. | Democracy, Design, and the Future of Work | Democratic workplaces! I haven’t though about that since 1998! |
| Mason Hale, OneSpot | In the Cloud: Massively Parallel Computing for Everyone | Parrallelism! |
| Dave Lester, George Mason University | Edupunk: Open Source Education | For the title! |
| Anthony Berman, Berman Entertainment & Technology Law | Is It Time To Update the DMCA? | So deep in my work thinking. |
| Peter-Paul Koch, QuirksMode.org | State of the Browsers | Need a recap. |
| George Kelly, Bay Area News Group-East Bay | Rules for Radicals: Strategic Interventions vs. New Media | Have been reading Alinsky recently. |
| John Resig, Mozilla Corporation | More Secrets of JavaScript Libraries | Want to brush up on JS… |
| Jon Wiley, Google | Doctypes Demystified | ..and quirks mode weirdness. |
| Kent Brewster, Yahoo, Inc. | How To Roll Your Own API | Insiders techie view. |
| WIll Tschumy, Microsoft Corp. | Robots Rock: Human-Robot Interaction | Robots! |
| Andrew McDiarmid, UC Berkeley | Collectively Licensing File-Sharing at UC Berkeley? | Deep, deep, deep work stuff. Will probably talk in acronyms to Andrew. |
| Andrew Huff, Gapers Block | The Street is a Platform | Title! |
| Brad Stenger, Wired | Computational Journalism | This is what I would want to be doing, if I wasn’t having the best time in the world. |
| Serge Lescouarnec, Serge the Concierge | From Consumed to Thrifty: Strategies for the Good Life in a Wobbly Economy | Plan B |
August 10th, 2008 at 5:46 am
One thing that puzzled my since a while is the very naming of ‘the edge’. Somehow, for me it implies that the relevant part of our connection to the internet is the internet itself and that we’re outsiders from where everything happens. In my case, and probably a lot of people, all the data that IS relevant to me is in my possession. Even if I have a flickr, facebook, myspace accout, my existence is what I produce and hold and is on local harware, the global web sites are merely complex form id cards that can also easily be cheated with.
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