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We have a Giant LASER! We ask a ransom of … ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
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Some really interesting new information about storage & drives. Not sure what this means for me as a consumer yet, but I imagine it’ll play out in the marketplace.
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Google are introducing Premium accounts. I think this is a really interesting move on their part — interested to see what kind of take-up they see, especially from smaller businesses.
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Nat’s done a write-up for the fantastic BarCampLondon2 which she was one of the main organisers for. Congrats to her and the rest of the team for a fabulous weekend!
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Interesting post from Tantek about diversity at conferences. I found it very interesting that there seemed to be a LOT more women speaking at BarCampLondon2 last weekend than you typically see at web conferences.
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“What’s important is technical expertise, speaking skills, professional stature, brand appropriateness, and marketability. That’s it.”
More great thoughts from Eric on gender diversity in the web conference space…
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“Instead, the question to be asking is, was there enough overall diversity in our conference? Is there enough overall diversity in the industry? And if not, what can we do to encourage more?”
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“That brings me to my final point, which I’ll explain more in my next post: Those of you who are defending this status quo are defending a culture of failure.”
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“I find conferences, be they one day or 5 days, to be dull if the speakers are all the same folks speaking about the same things. Who wants to eat a meal entirely of bread? Not me.”
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I predict that the wonderful ladies on Anil’s “imaginary conference sessions” list get a whole lot more bookings next year. Right thing too!!
