The idea of public rapid iterative design on myself is very tempting. It basically looks like this: State what you think you’re about. Do something that changes your mind. State how this has changed what you think you’re about. Do it again. I watched one of my favorite people in the world do it over [...]
For those of you who don’t know much about unconferences, this past weekend saw the 2008 edition of BarCamp Vancouver on Granville Island. I proposed a session called “BarCamps for Non-Techies” and, at 2pm, turned up to the stage to find a good group of around 20-25 people. We decided to drag the chairs onto [...]
As you might (or perhaps might not) expect of a student of Communication, media gives me swishy feelings. I got a few days head’s up for this, which is better than what I usually get. We hashed out the details this morning – tomorrow morning, I will be up bright and early to talk about [...]
by Karen Quinn Fung
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posted in Ideas, Technology, Unconferences
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The last three weeks have been an absolute whirlwind of activity, new things happening at a terrifying pace that has left me with little time for much of anything. But the only way out of this big backlog of blogging is to start somewhere, so I will start with the most important. My biggest project [...]
