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- translating analog into e-publishing
- Wikipedia, books and analytics
- Books, kindle and iPad
- Books beyond artifacts…0:22
- Books as digital souvenirs…2:26
- Walking through Wikipedia…4:20
- Online, Organizations
- Branding, Books
- Amazon, Analysis
- Mass Media
- Artifacts and America
Preposterous Australian sport needs credible new Web site
If you’re an Aussie standardista, two things are probably true: You like to do the right thing and a lot of people try to shake you down for freebies. I will be guilty of the latter in this posting. But the project is so preposterous you’ll find it irresistible:
Create a brand new Web site for an Australian bobsleigh team.
Yes, the country that hosts tennis tournaments in 42° C weather has a bobsleigh team. Several sleds, in fact. Now, you may think sports-mad Australia would stop at nothing to win medals. You may believe yours is one of those countries where sport funding flows like water. Not for bobsleigh, where athletes’ stipend of $18,000 a year hasn’t budged. In fact, athletes are on the verge of leaving the program because it’s so underfunded, and one already defected to Canada.
The Aussie sport establishment seems officially uninterested in a sport in which you push a sled down an ice track. For a hot country, this makes sense on the surface. Bobsleigh really is the most preposterous Australian sport.
All the better reason to help it out.
Meet the Spence Bob Squad
Ladies and gentlemen, meet one of your Australian Olympians, Mr. Heath Spence.
Yeah, he’s a ginger. This may or may not be a value-adding feature. I have my own opinion there.
Heath and his new brakeman in the two-man event, Alex Zborowski (whom Heath picked up in a bar in Calgary – have him tell you that story sometime), are just barely getting by in New York State, Alberta, Utah, and the other world capitals where bobsledders train. They’re more or less eating, but their equipment is lousy – they’re using third-rate hand-me-down sleds. (Even really good teams compete in used sleds, but there are better and worse models. Heath’s are worse.)
Still, Heath managed to finish fifth in two heats at the America’s Cup in Lake Placid in mid-January ’011. Even in a sport where luck plays a large part, that’s an amazing result.Cool Runnings this isn’t; Heath could actually take home a medal at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014. (“In Soviet Russia, Australia bobsleds you!”)
For that, he needs help. Let’s start with a new Web site.
Carte blanche
Heath’s team, the Spence Bob Squad, runs a site that is more or less a blog with a photo gallery attached. This is hardly good enough for the 21st century, is it?
With Heath’s blessing (and Maxine’s help in posting this item), this is an invitation for the very best Australian standardistas to volunteer for a small pro bono job: Update the Spence Bob Squad site.
Our minimum requirements are the same as any modern site’s:
- Valid, semantic HTML5
- Works very well in good browsers, OK in crappy ones
- Responsive design for mobile browsers and wide screens; definite attention paid to iPhone and iPad experience
- Viable print stylesheet
- RSS, Twitter, Facebook
- Meets WCAG 2 Level A at a minimum
- Contains a blog, preferably WordPress
Don’t be afraid to throw out what’s already there and start over. Beyond the list above, the big issue is graphic design. This thing has to look smashing. For that, we also invite responses from Australia’s best designers. (Or, if you’re the new breed of designer/developer, you can do both.)
We also need some kind of donation or E-commerce angle, which could be as simple as PayPal and Kickstarter integration. (These kids have to raise about $25K for new equipment, but that isn’t part of this project.)
Why do it? Because Australian bobsledders are underdogs – 6′2″, 210-pound underdogs who can run like the wind, but underdogs nonetheless. A new site is the first step in getting Heath Spence (and, eventually, the entire bobsleigh team) to the place they need to be: The medal podium.
Interested? Drop me a line at joeclark at fawny dot org, and/or hit up Heath on Facebook.
Want to join us?
Tim and Mike went to some trouble to create a convivial but productive shared space - we're feeling really privileged to be moving in there. And we've even got a spare deskspace if you'd like to join us.The office is on Foveaux St, down near Central Station, right in the heart of Surry Hills.
- Remy Sharp, "Browsers with Wings - HTML5 APIs"
- Sandi Wassmer, "Inclusive design is for everyone"
- Patrick Lauke, "Brave New World of HTML5"
- Christian Crumlish, "Designing for play"
- Simon Willison, "Building crowdsourcing applications"
- John Resig, "Testing mobile JavaScript"
- Mark Boulton, "Designing grid systems"
- Tom Hughes-Croucher, "An introduction to server-side JavaScript"
So, check out The Myths of Innovation (part 1), and get excited about seeing Part 2 in London in June: it's going to be an incredibly good start to a fantastic couple days, I just know it!" ["post_title"]=> string(48) "The Myths of Innovation - Remixed and Remastered" ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(46) "the-myths-of-innovation-remixed-and-remastered" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(53) " http://www.webdirections.org/resources/scott-berkun/" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2010-03-11 11:41:24" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2010-03-11 01:41:24" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(36) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=2410" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [14]=> object(stdClass)#129 (25) { ["ID"]=> int(2372) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "2" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2010-02-09 12:04:44" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2010-02-09 02:04:44" ["post_content"]=> string(2669) "Yesterday I launched our "Tell Us What You Want" survey for Web Directions South 2010. In essence this is a call for papers really, it's just that we don't like using that term as we think it makes us sound like some sort of antediluvian academic symposium, which, I'll hope you agree, we are not :)First up, if you haven't taken the time to submit your thoughts on what you'd like to see at Web Directions this year, and what you'd like the event to be like, please do so - we'd love to hear from you.Over the next few weeks, and especially after the survey closes, I'd like to publish my thoughts on interesting ideas and proposals that emerge. It's useful for me to be structure my responses in this way, and it's also a way to maybe hear your thoughts on my thoughts!I'm always a bit stumped by what to do with highly polarised responses. For example when I see things likeHype and tall tales dominate our knowledge of innovation history, and without awareness of the truth, we are set up to fail as creators, progressives, engineers and designers in our own time. This fun, fast paced, provocative keynote, based on a fresh take from the bestselling book The Myths of Innovation, will dissect the deepest mythologies and the latest misguided hype laden marketing propaganda, revealing the truths about good ideas and progress that anyone can use in their own work.
I would also like to see more forward-thinking, futuristic talks. I always look forward most to the keynotes, as they help inspire me to push the field forward, rather than being mired in the minutiae of current day techniques and implementation (which I find relatively useless at a conference given that it's far more effective to read about it online).beside things like:
Speakers covering the web from a 'real' position - there's lots of aspirational and ideal world talk at conferences, the best things I find to take away are those which are attainable, achieveable goals not just shooting for the stars. As always, it's about finding the right mixture.or this
I would be interested in learning the best practices for freelancers and small shops that help them stay organized, focused, and productive.beside things like:
I've also felt that the last conference was more targeted towards freelancers and less to those 'professional' developers/ designers who have a lot of internal politics to get through.it's always amusing and disheartening in equal measure. Ultimately we do the numbers on comments like this and disregard things which seem to be in the minority, or strike compromises when there really does seem to be a collection of polarised opinions on a topic. But it does always give you pause as we're sorry to displease anyone really.Anyone got any thoughts on what's really going on when you get comments like that?" 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iPads? HTML5? Hot, or not?
- In: Blog
- By: Maxine
- March 8, 2011
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We did a quick survey of Web Directions conference attendees reactions, observations, opinions, rants and praises on the latest tech tools: HTML 5 and iPad … so is it Hot or Not? Check out how your peers rate them!
Craig Mod interviewed at Web Directions South
- In: Blog
- By: Maxine
- February 23, 2011
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Following on from last week’s James Bridle interview, this week we continue the books theme as Danielle interviews Craig Mod. Craig is a writer, designer, publisher and … Read more »
James Bridle — Web Directions South 2010 interview
- In: Blog
- By: Maxine
- February 14, 2011
- 2 Comments
Over the next couple of weeks we shall tackle the hot issue of e-book and e-publishing. We begin with interviewing Web Directions South 2010 British speaker James Bridle, following it up next week with San Franciso based Craig Mod’s slightly different take on this very intriguing topic…
Title: E-Books
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Scott Thomas: Video interview from Web Directions South 2010
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- By: Maxine
- February 1, 2011
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Last year at Web Directions South Danielle Szetho had a great time interviewing a bunch of our speakers. Today, thanks to the people at Hunting with Pixels, we’re going to start publishing the videos of these … Read more »
Help a (bobsledding) brother out?
- In: Blog
- By: Maxine
- January 31, 2011
- 3 Comments
Joe Clark, who did us the honour of speaking at the very first conference we ever produced, Web Essentials (way back in 2004), got in touch the other month with a project he’s hoping to get a bit of help for. It’s definitely not your run-of-the-mill affair, but it’s something … Read more »
New Web Directions Office — Want to hang with us?
- In: Blog
- By: Maxine
- January 17, 2011
- 2 Comments
Web Directions is moving! Admittedly, we’re keeping it tight and only shifting about 500m from where I am sitting right now. But it’s going to be super exciting for us as we are taking over such a beautiful space, which you may already know as the old … Read more »
Web Directions South 2010 — nearly here!
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- By: Maxine
- October 5, 2010
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It’s a little over a week to go until Web Directions South for this year, and if you’re not quite sure whether you can make it or not, our most recent speaker announcements might just tip you over.
In addition to our already stellar lineup of … Read more »
The McFarlane Prize for Australian web design — nominations now open
Nominations for the McFarlane Prize for excellence in Australian web design have just opened. So, if you’re responsible for a web site launched or significantly updated since September 20 2009 which you think deserves recognition for its adherence to web … Read more »
Sitepoint are looking for a web app developer
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- By: Maxine
- August 11, 2010
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Want to work with some of the best developers in Australia? Looking to develop world-class websites using the latest web technologies? Keen to be part of an organisation that is a great supporter of the Aussie web industry?
SitePoint are in need of a talented PHP developer — … Read more »
More Web Directions @media podcasts and slides come online
Thanks to a lot of hard work from Guy Leech, a whole bunch of the podcasts and slides from Web Directions @media are now online. It’s always great to give back by making these available, and we’d like to particularly thank our speakers for their generosity.
Help us make it all … Read more »
Three must-see presentations which came out of Web Directions @media
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- By: Maxine
- July 12, 2010
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After any conference we always do our best to share the love by creating a podcast and resource page for each presentation from the event. Apologies that it has taken a bit of time to get these out there this time — we’ve had the small matter of … Read more »
McFarlane Prize 2009 — The Book
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- By: Maxine
- March 30, 2010
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At Web Directions South last year we announced that we would be commemorating the 2009 McFarlane Prize by producing a beautiful high quality hard cover book containing all 48 of the shortlisted entires. Thanks to a lot of hard work … Read more »
Introducing #wdx
- In: Blog
- By: Maxine
- March 18, 2010
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There have been words out and about regarding the name of our London event for this year, Web Directions @media. To explain a little where that name has come from, the conference this time around is a hybrid as we take over the reins of the highly … Read more »
The Myths of Innovation — Remixed and Remastered
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- By: Maxine
- March 11, 2010
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A few years back, Scott Berkun gave one of the most highly regarded presentations we have ever had at a Web Directions event. It was called the Myths of Innovation, and people still buttonhole me to say how great it was, or to bemoan the fact that their lifetime regret … Read more »
Reflections on the first 24 hours of the Web Direction South 2010 “Tell us what you want” survey
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- By: Maxine
- February 9, 2010
- 6 Comments
Yesterday I launched our “Tell Us What You Want” survey for Web Directions South 2010. In essence this is a call for papers really, it’s just that we don’t like using that term as we think it makes us sound like some sort of antediluvian academic symposium, which, I’ll … Read more »
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