Web Directions

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If you don't have access to the magazine (issue 234!) then you can read it online now, thanks to Matt and SitePoint.I think it gives some insights into why we do Web Directions, and why we continue to get even more excited about the conference as time goes on." 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Campaign Monitor really have done an excellent job in helping people follow best practices in this area." 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Check it out if not.It has some really strong arguments about how destructive the injection of cash could be into a commons based peer production environment like this could be. Because I must admit that when I read they operate on an annual budget of $US5 million, my first thought was "but couldn't they achieve their goals so much more quickly if they were operating under Youtube or Myspace-esque conditions?". But the article points out the nightmare challenge of deciding what to do with that advertising revenue, which would no doubt lead to bitter divisions in the community.Wikipedia is also very aware of the perception of advertising as a form of censorship, and how destructive it could be to the credibility readers give their content.Maybe Wikipedia is another example of the same principle that makes Craiglist work: being just perfect at exactly the size budget you are." 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Their first Perth venture, a mobile locative game called Ghost Town, will be held from December 2-9, as part of the ByteMe! Festival of digital content.Mobile locative games are an extension of online gaming into the physical world. They make use of technologies such as bluetooth, SMS and VOIP to create a context in which we can explore and understand our urban environments in unexpected ways.In Ghost Town, you'll uncover clues and solve puzzles with the help of messages, pictures and even voice calls. You'll search the CBD for special stickers that unlock the game's challenges, all the while unraveling a mysterious storyline. You can explore the game at your own pace, giving you a chance to appreciate some of Perth’s most interesting spaces. By taking the game from the screen to the streets, Ghost Town promotes active and healthy gaming.Best of all Ghost Town is free - all you need to do is rock up to the Ghost Town booth at the Perth Town Hall between 10am and 5pm, Dec 2 to Dec 9, with your Bluetooth enabled phone." 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What does interest me though is people's obsessive fascination with the game.An obsessive fascination that leads to this fine bit of work by Myles Eftos, an unholy alliance between cricinfo and twitter. Followhttp://twitter.com/baggygreento get ball by ball commentary of any game involving Australia.And go here to see how, Warney-like, Myles weaves his magic.I guess this whole exercise goes some way toward answering a question I ponder every night while standing in line at the supermarket: why is Ricky Ponting on the cover of Alpha magazine?" 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Live Cinema today stands for the simultaneous creation of sound and image in real time by sonic and visual artists who collaborate on equal terms and with elaborate concepts. The traditional parameters of narrative cinema are expanded by a much broader conception of cinematographic space, the focus of which is no longer the photographic construction of reality as seen by the camera’s eye, or linear forms of narration. The term "Cinema" is now to be understood as embracing all forms of configuring moving images, beginning with the animation of painted or synthetic images.

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So you can simply have a checkbox for example that says "Add $1 for orphan care in Zimbabwe".Definitely plan to implement this for Web Directions next time around, but you know what I'm thinking? People like us could have a powerful network effect in spreading this amongst the organisations we do work for, and encouraging them to use it in their ecommerce projects. OK, I don't know how tricky it is to actually work with their API, but I'm thinking developers could get into the habit of at least running this by their clients in any new projects, and of course including any extra development work it involved gratis.Just a thought: would love to hear from anyone who has already joined up." 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More details including an interview with fellow antipodean Richard McManus at Read/Write Web.Congratulations to Atlassian who go from strength to strength - and inspiration for young Aussie tech companies." 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There's permissions to get from every author, CDs to rip and downsample (unless you want to download 60MB per presentation), the podcast RSS to create, site changes to make, and more.This year, we've created a large resources section for the conference, where you can find most of the slideshows (a few presenters asked that theirs didn't get published for a variety of reasons), and the podcasts (several there now, more coming soon, once permissions are finalized). So head over and take a look.You can also subscribe to our podcasts, so that as they come online, you'll hear about them.There's more to come of course, but this ought to keep you occupied for a little while. Enjoy." 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This year some lucky person will get to go to Web Directions North for free, from anywhere in the world. Join our affiliates program and it could be you.

Here's how it works. Get in touch with us and we'll set you up as an affiliate. Use your affiliate link, and our badges, to spread the word about the conference.

Anyone who refers 4 people who sign up for the conference (we track them with cookies and associated internet magic), gets themselves a free ticket -- but that's only the beginning.

In early January we'll draw an affiliate at random who will get not just their ticket to the conference, but also their flight and 3 nights accommodation, covered by us, from anywhere in the World.

We'll also draw 3 other runners up who will each get a ticket to the conference, whether they've referred 4 people or not.

We also have great books by many of our speakers to give away too - so there's plenty of opportunity to win.

Anyone who joins the affiliate program and sends a few hits our way is in the running to win big -- so, get in touch today, start spreading the word, and you could be on your way to Vancouver this January.

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As part of an ongoing plan to make more of its data available in a variety of formats, the ABS is working to enable users to generate their own tables from raw statistical data and then present the information using maps.

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