500 Words
#kiwifoo #webstock
#multicoreworld
Industrialised ignorance, creative
constraints, the 100 days project
Information
overload
And so it begins
This is not the 100 days
project
But it is an exercise in creative constraints
I
need this
I need the creativity, I need the
discipline
I embrace
change/improvement
#KiwiFOO
Mega
Is
much bigger than people think
Pause for
thought
Wikilegislation
Is probably part of the
answer
And its easy (so easy)
Clay Johnson vs Aurelia
Rose
A battle of wits, a game of power
We revel in our
humanity
#webstock
@cjoh : News these
days
Is industrialised ignorance
Go on a diet
To
answer a question
The solution is to find a better
question
Creative constraints FTW
@bruces : The
Stacks
Are enormous, powerful and unstoppable
They are
also
unstable
#multicoreworld
Multicore
Changes
everything
Now
Computers
Of the near future are
different (much smarter)
Than they are now
Mobile tech
has passed
The inflection point, and this is how a
new
Boom begins
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Covering Notes: All of which is to say that when you write in something like verse - 500 words starts to get pretty dense. And when you write it fast probably a bit loose. I do not intend to edit this as that would just take more time.
The words above relate to events of the past 13 days
- three conferences:
#KiwiFoo which is held annually in
Warkworth and hosted by Nat Torkington (@gnat), Jenine
Abarbanel (@justjenine) and Russell Brown (@publicaddress)
is pure magic. It would be fair to say that a few years ago
At KiwiFoo I discovered my people, many amazing New
Zealanders who make me want to stay here and work here and
converse here.
The magic of KiwiFoo is in its nurturing supportive environment which (sadly) is not the standard mode of communication in post-colonial NZ with its roots in suffering both here in NZ and back from where we came from in Ireland and Scotland. Here in NZ we all too often bring each other down.
As night follows day #webstock follows KiwiFoo (the following Thursday and Friday).
And this year's Webstock was for me the best yet. To me anyway. I mentioned to someone at the after party that it had been rather "mindblowing", "the best one yet", and "it felt like the internet was growing up a bit" and she replied "yeahmmmmm but that's what we say every year".
Ubiquitous awesomeness is such a drag sometimes!
Webstock is always
for me a bit like an operating system update….
….
But that story will need to wait till tomorrow as I am
approaching my word limit for today.
Fortunately here at the beginning of my "writing 500 words a day before I read my email" project I have lots to say. I can see now that it's going to have to be top of the head stuff. But there is plenty of that needing a home and it will be fun.
And so it begins.
- Alastair Thompson 9.33am
22/2/13