Rands in Repose:
As for Webstock, it’s on the other side of the world, but they’ve defined an event you must experience simply because you want to find your own whistling lamppost.
[Via : Rands In Repose: It’s Windy in Wellington.]
Bonus link: Michael’s NZ photos on Flickr.
Tom Coates:
What a wonderful country, what a lovely conference
[Via : plasticbag.org: links for 2008-02-21.]
Kalena Jordan provides notes on Amy Hoy’s session Usability for Evil, with additional comments by Amy herself:
Amy Hoy calls herself a user interface nerd designer writer educator programmer photographer extraordinary. As half of Washington DC based consulting firm Hyphenated People, she gets to help cool companies on the web every day and thinks that’s just the best job ever.
Amy’s t-shirt sets the scene for her Webstock presentation: “It’s fun to use learning for evil”. By evil, Amy is sarcastically referring to companies that manipulate people’s subconscious weaknesses to make money.
Dan Cederholm said many complimentary things about Webstock, but this comment about NZ stood out:
I’m calling New Zealand ‘earth concentrate’, where a two-hour drive can take you through 10 different landscapes.
[Via : SimpleBits.]
john wrote on the ProjectX Blog:
Webstock is the perfect place to connect with the people in our industry. I love the being about to chat to people from all over. Debating the merits of internships, talking about how to get the best out of people, figuring out how we can deliver more WOW to our clients.
[Via : ProjectX Blog.]