Tilting at windmills for a better tomorrow.
Loose notes from SXSW 2011 session: John Battelle interviews Matt Mullenweg
Audio available at link above.
WP currently powers about 12% of the web. Future of WordPress is as a full platform/CMS, not just a blog.
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WordPress at its best is invisible – it gets out of the way.
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Loose notes from SXSW 2011 session: Asleep in the Classroom: A Wakeup Call from Tomorrow
America’s students are bored. According to the Gates Foundation, boredom is the number one reason they give for dropping out of school. How can creativity, innovation and technology address this growing crisis in education? If technology is a driver for shorter attention spans, can it also be the solution to bring back the wonder of education? Can we extend the reach further and engage our students more both inside and outside of the classroom, to reawaken a love of learning?
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Loose notes from SXSW 2011 session: Fireside chat with Tim O’Reilly with Jason Calacanis
Jason Calacanis, Founder, Mahalo.com
Tim O’Reilly, Founder/CEO, O’Reilly Media Inc
Wonderful way to open a week of stimulating sessions that challenge preconceived notions of technology, politics, and journalism in unexpected ways. O’Reilly was an intellectual silver bullet, as always, but really nice to catch him in an unscripted conversation rather than in one of his more “formal” talks.
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Loose notes from SXSW 2011 session: Dork Intervention: Bringing Design to Agile
Agile is broken. How can designers help deliver products that users will love while grappling with the constraints of agile in corporations? With large companies rapidly adopting agile methods, it is crucial that these teams include designers to create great products. But the agile framework available to larger companies doesn’t take into account the work style of design team members. Agile, by its nature, shortcuts the design process without considering the value that design brings, not only in providing on-the-fly design solutions but also when crafting the vision of a product that the team can build towards. We are designers with agile team experience in the corporate world. These are our stories of triumph and tragedy. Come hear what worked for us and share your own war stories.
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