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Douglas Bowman interview in Digital Web Magazine

One of my very favourite web designers, in fact thinkers, writers, and speakers about the Web is Douglas Bowman. Web Directions actually owes a lot to Douglas. He, Joe Clark and Dave Shea were all speakers at the first conference that Maxine and I helped organize, WE04, way back in 2004. We enjoyed all their […]

Microsoft parties at Whistler

Let’s face it, we tech folk tend to often be indoors types, and social side of conferences is often indoor-focused parties. That’s one of the main reasons with Web Directions North we decided to add some adventure – trips to Blackcomb Whistler after the formal part of the conference is over. The response has been […]

Video Interviews with Web Directions Speakers

During Web Directions South, Japanese web standards powerhouse Kazuhito Kidachi, who has attended all of our conferences down under, did an interview with John Allsopp about all kinds of things, but with a strong focus on microformats. Part one of the interview is here, and part two, here in English, with Japanese subtitles. He also […]

WDN Student Scholarships

I’m very proud of this, and very much hope we can do it for all our conferences. As conference organizers, speakers and attendees, Dave, Derek, Maxine and John have long been aware that while a good conference can be an unbeatable benefit for your career, they are definitely out of the price range of those […]

Web Directions Discount Deadline Extended to January 14

Web Directions North is almost upon us — with attendees coming from all over the world, some great sponsors are helping to make the event even more special, and of course, a bumper snow fall is making the after-conference ski trip just keep getting better. But that discount pricing deadline of $895CDN (about $USD770), originally […]

Mark Pesce on the iPhone

It should come as no surprise to anyone who heard Mark Pesce speak at Web Directions that he’d be excited by the iPhone. The reality, people who have beendead for several years are excited by the iPhone. Anyway, Mark is one of the web’s deep thinkers, and excellent writers, and gnerally makes me ashamed of […]

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